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Celebrities including Winston Churchill have pampered at this slightly old-fashioned, 108-room seaside spa hotel in Edipsos, famed for its hot springs. The hotel’s spring-fed thermal complex, with indoor-outdoor pools and glass-walled relaxation lounge, is superb. See the full post >

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The Oriental-tinged Metropole is a five-star hotel on the prestigious but congested lagoon-facing riva degli Schiavoni promenade. With collections of antique fans and crucifixes lining corridors, and a seriously tenebrous mirrored-ceiling lounge, it comes across part opium den, part Old Curiousity Shoppe. See the full post >

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Park Hyatt Zurich — the American brand’s first property in Switzerland — is a spacious five-star hotel with high ceilings and understated yet lavish interiors featuring contemporary art. This comfortable urban base is situated between the financial district and lakefront. See the full post >

Art Nouveau-style Villa Honegg is Switzerland’s smallest superior five-star, occupying a sun terrace high on the Bürgenstock above Lake Lucerne. It offers secluded opulence across 23 rooms and suites, as well as Gault-Millau-standard dining and a heated outdoor infinity pool with an almighty view. See the full post >

Piccadilly’s Athenaeum, with a distinctive ‘living’ wall of plants covering its façade, is famous for the Hollywood stars who stayed there in the Seventies and Eighties, and has repositioned itself as a five-star boutique hotel, with a sleek new look, Galvin restaurant, bar and pavement terrace. See the full post >