The stays worth flying for

Some hotels are not a place to sleep. They are the reason for the trip.

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A hotel in Kathmandu, once nearly lost to firewood, now the finest address in the city. Cave rooms in Cappadocia with a wine tap set into the stone. A railway bridge over a river of hippos, made into a room. A sailing yacht from Orient Express, its rooms drawn from the Art Deco carriages of the old line, crossing the Mediterranean under wind.

More and more, the question is not only where you want to go, but how you want to feel. To put the phones down and come back to yourself, or to your partner, or to your family. Elaine is an American travel advisor based in Istanbul. She looks for the places worth arranging a journey around, then designs the rest so you arrive the way you hoped to.