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Luxury Hotel Reviews (First-Hand, With Photos)

These are hotels we have actually stayed in and photographed, written up room by room. The most-searched of them is The Yeatman in Porto, the wine-country property overlooking the Douro, and our review of it is the one readers find most often. Bangkok is where the collection runs deepest: the St. Regis, the Waldorf Astoria, the Conrad, the JW Marriott, and both InterContinental Bangkok and InterContinental Hua Hin, several of them refreshed for 2026 with current room and lounge notes.

Beyond Portugal and Thailand we cover the Hilton Singapore Orchard, InterContinental Madrid and Miami, and a run of Las Vegas properties including The Cosmopolitan. Loyalty status can change a stay more than the room rate does, so when it did we put a number on it, like the Hilton Diamond breakfast and executive-lounge access at the Conrad Bangkok. Every review is a room we booked and slept in, photographed as we found it.

All Luxury Hotel Reviews (First-Hand, With Photos)

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Frequently asked questions

Is The Yeatman hotel in Porto worth it?

The Yeatman is a Relais and Châteaux wine hotel above the Douro, and our review found the location and views hard to beat, with a private terrace overlooking Porto from every room. It has a Michelin-starred restaurant, a wine-themed spa, and a decanter-shaped pool. The stay is dampened by weak Wi-Fi, an underwhelming breakfast buffet, and a location that sits some way from the city centre, so plan on taxis or a walk downhill.

Which Bangkok luxury hotels do you review?

Bangkok is the deepest part of our hotel coverage. We have stayed in and photographed the St. Regis, the Waldorf Astoria, the Conrad, the JW Marriott, the Millennium Hilton, and both the InterContinental Bangkok and InterContinental Hua Hin, with several refreshed for 2026. Loyalty status can swing the value a lot here: at the Conrad Bangkok, Hilton Diamond got us the breakfast and executive-lounge access, and the review spells out what that was actually worth.

Are these hotel reviews based on real stays?

Yes. Every hotel review is our own booking, so the photos are the actual room we slept in and the notes come from staying there, not from a page on the hotel's site. We write each stay up room by room and flag where loyalty status, breakfast, or lounge access changed what we paid for. The collection runs deepest in Bangkok and Porto, with further reviews in Singapore, Madrid, Miami, and Las Vegas.

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