Our list of 2019, our first year where we traveled this much! Did our fair share of luxury hotels, but our favourite trip was probably the one with the least amount of luxury when we traveled through Australia for 2 and a half months in a campervan :-).
- Hotel Café Royal - London - 9/10: Favourite city hotel we've been to this year. Great service, food was delicious, spacious suite with great views on both Regent Street and Picadilly Circus. They missed the mark with the lighting in the spa though.
- Hôtel Lutetia - Paris - 8.5/10: Beautiful building, great location on the Left Bank, very good food, but service a bit cold at times.
- Raffles - Seychelles - 7/10: Huge suites but in need of a renovation after 10 years. The beach is really nice and there are some amazing beaches nearby. The spa is stunning and the treatments were good, but the food really wasn't good and the service in general was very mediocre.
- Six Senses Zil Pasyon - Seychelles - 9/10: Hard to fault this resort. Beautiful island, large comfortable private villas, amazing food. The spa is out of this world! Service was good, but nothing special.
- Fairmont Royal Palm - Marrakech - 8/10: A very good hotel, great for golfers and people who want to relax. Spa is beautiful and treatments very very good. The location is too far out of the city centre. Even without traffic it's a 30 minute drive to the city. Food ranged from bland to absolutely delicious.
- One&Only Reethi Rah - Maldives - 8.5/10: Really really enjoyed our stay here. Beach villas have an amazing large private beach (definitely recommend beach villas here instead of overwater villas) but miss storage space. Loved the food, but found the interior of the restaurants disappointing (interior design, cutlery, placemats, ...)
- Pan Deï Palais - St-Tropez - ?/10: Lovely pool area, perfectly located in the centre of St Tropez, but we had horrible weather during our stay which made us stay inside 100% of the time. Will have to go back to re-evaluate.
- St Regis Vommuli - Maldives - 9/10: Beautiful modern overwater villas, great food, and superb use of the butler service. Hard to fault. Private pools were a bit small and too cold, but who needs a pool when you have a perfectly calm ocean at your doorstep?
- Belmond Charleston Place - USA - 6.5/10: Just a very uninspiring Belmond property. The club lounge was ok for pre-dinner drinks and snacks. Didn't try the restaurants as Charleston has so much to offer food-wise. Could definitely use a refurb.
- The Strand - Myanmar - 7/10: Really liked the bar and the pool area. Our suite was nice, except for the bathroom, which was horrible. The butler service was annoying as hell and only good for coffee in the morning. Food was mediocre, cocktails very good.
- Ritz-Carlton New Orleans - USA - 6/10: I'm noticing a trend in this thread. RC quality going down. Same in New Orleans. Our suite was large and comfortable, but service was awful, club lounge was colder than a fridge and just wasn't a big fan of the decor. Extra half point for the live jazz band in the bar that was really good!
- Hotel Yountville - Napa Valley, USA - 7.5/10: Not sure this qualifies as a real luxury hotel, but we really liked our stay here. Great pool area and loved the fireplace in our room. The spa treatments were really good, too. The layout of the whole property is just really strange and the continental breakfast that was included was pathetic.
- Raffles Meradhoo - Maldives - 8.5/10: Stayed here pre-opening and we were the only guests on the island so difficult to judge the atmosphere. Service was great, food was really good and we loved the design of the place! Going back in January to try the overwater villas which weren't open yet and see how everything has evolved!
- Ritz Carlton - Hong Kong - 8/10: Fun to be in such a high hotel. It's really a great hotel if you don't have to get out much. Didn't like the location at all, but the club lounge is one of the best lounges we've been to! Some very good restaurants (and bar) on property. I feel they could have done better with the swimming pool area.
- One&Only Royal Mirage - Dubai - 7/10: Too big for us. You really get the whole 'big resort' feeling here. Had an amazing meal at their Moroccan restaurant and we really liked the size and decor of our room!
- Cliveden House - UK - 8/10: Stunning property and great service at Cliveden House. We found the food terribly overpriced and not up to standards. Had some of the best spa treatments here.
- One&Only Royal Palm - Dubai - 8.5/10: This was more our thing. Very intimate resort for Dubai standards. Great service and some very good food (especially the fine-dining restaurant by Yannick Alléno. Wonderful spa!
Hotels we stayed at that don't qualify for this forum: Constance Ephelia (Seychelles), JA Enchanted Island Resort (Seychelles), Barnsley House (Cotswolds - UK), Constance Moofushi (Maldives), Constance Halaveli (Maldives), Hotel Les Deux Tours (Marrakech), Anantara Dhigu (Maldives), Le Grand Galle (Sri Lanka), Sanctum Inle Resort (Myanmar), SO/ Sofitel Bangkok (Thailand), Grand Hyatt (Hong Kong)