Welcome to The 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards. This is the twenty eighth version of our annual occasion, and, as with final 12 months, the outcomes are primarily based purely on votes from our UK readership. Each vote is slightly memento of your travels – a fridge magnet introduced again out of your journeys, if you’ll – and collectively they piece collectively a world map of your favorite locations, fixers and enablers. In this unending age of the selfie, awards comparable to these present a precious reset: an outward-looking view of the world that’s constructed on an appreciation of the individuals who plan your journey for you, fly or sail you to your vacation spot, verify you in and lead you on adventures out onto the savanna or up into the Alps. Oh, and the individuals who put together your meals: this 12 months, greater than every other, it appears to be the culinary prowess of resorts and locations that has actually whetted your urge for food for journey – whether or not that’s the piri-piri squid with a samphiretartare dip at The Rooster’s backyard restaurant on Antiparos, or a Wagyu burger splattered in shibazuke ketchup at Ace Hotel Kyoto. As a clever man as soon as mentioned, “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” Well, listed here are a number of to flick via and hopefully encourage you to go additional and deeper.
These are all the winners in the 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards.
The finest resorts in the world
DOOK
Our readers’ favourite UK hotels
Winner, London: The Connaught.
Winner, remainder of UK: The Newt in Somerset.
Our readers’ favourite hotels in Europe
Winner, Paris: Le Bristol Paris.