Allegedly, Queen Elizabeth and Mick Jagger as soon as slept in the identical mattress, simply not on the similar time. That mattress can be at Huka Lodge, New Zealand. Opened in 1924 as a humble fishing camp, it’s since develop into a tartan-and-teak retreat with roaring fireplaces and martinis on silver trays. Oversized suites open onto manicured lawns and the Waikato River, with Ralph Lauren-ish decor: a number of tartan, gilt-framed oil work, and velvet sofas. You’ll go to sleep to the frenzy of water and wake to birdsong and woodsmoke. Aperitifs are served at golden hour earlier than lengthy dinners. It’s the unique luxurious lodge and nonetheless the blueprint for all others that comply with. From Rs1,70,864. —Chloe Sachdev
Park Hyatt Sydney
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David Mitchener
Celebrating my one-year anniversary as a employees editor at Condé Nast Traveler whereas on a piece journey to Australia, I stayed at this elegant 155-key property proper on the sting of Sydney Harbour. On September 11 (sure, it felt unusual coming into our workplaces at 1 World Trade Center on my first day), I wakened on the Park Hyatt Sydney to golden mild pouring into my room by floor-to-ceiling home windows. I stepped out onto a balcony—one in every of two—and watched the metropolis get up: the ships and ferries coming into the harbor, handsome Sydneysiders out for his or her morning run on the boardwalk, the solar rising behind that iconic sail-shaped opera home. From its prime spot in the Rocks historic neighbourhood on the western aspect of Sydney Cove, the lodge has provided a front-row seat to this Aussie scene for the previous 35 years. That’s 35 New Year’s Eve fireworks shows that the Park Hyatt’s extraordinarily fortunate company have seen from this vantage level: fountains of sparks and chrysanthemums of sunshine bursting from each the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, all ringing in one other twelve months of excellent fortune. And there I stood on an abnormal Wednesday in September, in a luxurious bathrobe, sipping on a demitasse of espresso and wishing over a pale blue sky the identical for myself. I used to be so comfortable to mark the event of my first work anniversary at this lodge. Sure, I may chalk it as much as its giant and sumptuously appointed rooms, its crew’s attentive service, or its recent and scrumptious brekkies that lend credence to the idea that Australians invented avocado toast. But as they are saying: location, location, location. No matter the event, a keep on the Park Hyatt Sydney, I’d enterprise, provides you the sensation of being precisely the place you ought to be. From Rs70,218. —Matt Ortile
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