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

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

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

A French medieval hilltop town is the location of Toile Blanche, a former 19th-century farmhouse reimagined as a boutique hotel

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

Bill and Kate Morris spend the summer cruising through Liguria, Corsica and Sardinia ahead of work at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games