Find the best neighborhoods to stay in each city with our where-to-stay travel guides, plus hand-picked hotel recommendations for every budget. Book with confidence and sleep well on your next trip!
Taipei is one of Asia’s easiest capitals to love and one of the trickiest to pin down on a map. There is no single centre: the skyscraper-and-shopping district of Xinyi sits in the east, the old temples and night markets of Wanhua in the west, leafy Da’an in the middle, and a steaming hot-spring valley … Read more
Seoul is two cities in one, and the Han River is the line between them. North of the river is old Seoul: palaces, hanok lanes, temples and markets that have traded for centuries. South of it is new Seoul: Gangnam’s towers, mega-malls and beauty clinics. Where you stay decides which city you wake up in … Read more
Hong Kong packs more hotel choice into a few square miles than almost any city on earth — and the first decision is a simple one: which side of Victoria Harbour do you want to wake up on? Stay in Kowloon and you look across the water at the famous skyline. Stay on Hong Kong … Read more
Osaka runs on a simple rule: nobody leaves hungry. This is the city that gave the world takoyaki and perfected okonomiyaki, where dinner can mean a two-Michelin-star counter or a six-seat stall under the railway arches — and where, either way, the bill arrives as a pleasant surprise. Osaka is louder, warmer and funnier than … Read more
Naples doesn’t care about making a good first impression, and that’s exactly why it sticks with you. Italy’s third-largest city is loud, layered, and completely unbothered by the polish of the north — a place where a 2,800-year-old Greek street grid sits under Baroque palaces, and where the pizza really is better than anywhere else … Read more
Oslo rewards travelers who pick the right base. Norway’s capital is wonderfully compact — you can walk the core in about half an hour — but each neighborhood gives you a different city: grand boulevards and the Royal Palace in Sentrum, waterfront dining and modern architecture in Aker Brygge, the white sweep of the Opera … Read more
Stockholm is a city of islands, and each one has its own personality — which means where you stay genuinely shapes your trip. Pick the medieval lanes of Gamla Stan and you’ll be walking to the Royal Palace before the crowds arrive. Pick Södermalm and you’ll wake up to waterfront views and spend your evenings … Read more
Krakow is one of those rare cities where choosing where to stay is less about distance and more about mood. Almost everything a first-time visitor wants — the Main Market Square, Wawel Castle, the Kazimierz food scene, the main train station — sits inside a walkable core barely two kilometres across. What changes is the … Read more
Munich rewards travelers who pick the right base. The Bavarian capital is compact and its U-Bahn is excellent, but each neighborhood gives you a different city: step out into medieval lanes and the Marienplatz Glockenspiel in the Altstadt, museum-hop through neoclassical Maxvorstadt, or live like a local among the cafés of Schwabing and Haidhausen. Choose … Read more
Playa del Carmen is the Riviera Maya’s sweet spot: smaller and more walkable than Cancun, livelier than Tulum, and sitting right in the middle of the coast with the Cozumel ferry at its feet. But “Playa” is really three trips in one. Sleep in Centro and Fifth Avenue’s restaurants are your dining room. Sleep in … Read more