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COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

Suitable for all the family, snow-sure Sölden has high alpine altitude and great snow-making systems, for a luxuriously long ski season lasting from October to May. In fact, Sölden is the only ski are

Stylist’s Georgina Emanuel chases sunrise and stillness in the Bavarian Alps There are wake-up calls, and then there’s hiking up a mountain at dawn, mist curling through the trees and a sky slowly blu

Frazzled from what felt like a never-ending year, we booked into South Lodge hoping for a quiet countryside reset – and it certainly delivered. The Reeds is a cluster of eco-lodges set on the edge of

Teresa Levonian Cole climbs aboard the latest iteration of the Orient Express for a sybaritic journey to the ‘underground city’ of Matera

I had no idea that, on a group ski and snowboarding holiday to Tignes in the French Alps, I’d end up in what was akin to a Teletubby outfit bobbing on my back like a Champagne cork in an icy lake. Nor