It is, admittedly, a little self-indulgent to look back at the end of each year and pick my favorites among the dozens of luxury hotels that I’ve had the pleasure of staying at and writing about. But after another year that saw me spending more than half my nights away from home, my deep affinity for hotels is perhaps inevitable. Faena Miami BeachI’d woken up in Oz when I found myself at Argentine hotelier Alan Faena’s latest tour de force. Nihiwatu, Sumba, IndonesiaIt’s a luxury playground with a soul, a resort where everything is the best it could possibly be but nothing feels overblown. And this isn’t an invisible-waiter kind of place: Staff and guests line dance together to live music every Saturday night.

Source: Forbes December 05, 2016 15:01 UTC