Where to stay

The Hotel Guru’s guide to where to stay on Malta is ideal for helping you decide where to base your stay on this incredible, and incredibly varied island. With detailed information about key towns, centres and neighbourhoods, plus practical recommendations, it will help you find the right base, whether you’re here to visit all the Crusader forts, to be charmed by the island’s history, to dive off Gozo, or to do, and see, as much as you can!

Barcelona is a sultry beauty like no other, thanks to her lovers, a collection of famed artists architecture and chefs, but her many neighbourhoods are varied, so she poses a challenge: where to stay in Barcelona? Our detailed guide to Barcelona’s neighbourhoods is designed to help you answer that question, allowing you to pick out the neighbourhood that’s the best match to your plans for visiting Barcelona. Whether you’re planned a tour of the highlights compete with paper and pencils, you’re intending to eat your way across the city, or just meander around and see what you uncover.

While you probably recognise the names of a lot of Los Angeles’ neighbourhoods — Hollywood, Malibu, Beverly Hills and Venice Beach for example, don’t limit yourself to what you know, why not let us make some recommendations too? Our guide to where to stay in Los Angeles has tips and recommendations for some of the most popular neighbourhoods for visitors to stay in, and good ways of working out which ones will be the best match for the sort of L.A. adventure you have planned.

Our guide to Amsterdam’s best neighbourhoods is just what you need to help you plan your visit to Amsterdam. We have great recommendations, whether you’re here to explore this artistic city’s history, its architecture, its markets, its cuisine, its museums, or if you’re just here to kick back and enjoy yourself. We think the best city breaks are those where you match the atmosphere of the neighbourhood you stay in with the kind of trip you’re planning.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Mallorca’s towns and neighbourhoods will help you find the perfect place to stay: from pretty, lively Palma; to charming Sóller; laid back Deià; or Artà with its ancient landmarks.

Our guide to where to stay in the Peak District offers a run down of some of the best, and most popular places to stay in the Peak District, with useful details, and recommendations that we think will help you choose the perfect base for your Peak District adventure.

Our detailed guide to the best neighbourhoods in Copenhagen is just what you need to help you plan your visit. We’ve got great neighbourhood recommendations that you can match to your own holiday, whether you’re here to admire Copenhagen’s art and design, to marvel at its maritime history, to sample Scandi cuisine, to revel in its nightlife, or to see the sights of this beautiful and unique city. Copenhagen is a big city, but with a relatively small footprint, so it has quite a number of very central neighbourhoods, with quite a bit of variety between them.

Budapest is the marrying of Buda and Pest, occupying opposite sides of the Danube from each other, and picturesquely connected by an elegant bridges. Each side has its own charms, and reasons to choose it as a base for exploring the city, but the majority of accommodation is to be found on the Pest side, which is today’s city centre - and the bit with the lion’s share of headline sights for visitors.

Built across 14 islands in a sparkling archipelago, its buildings painted warm shades of orange and yellow, Stockholm has to be one of the world’s most beautiful cities. It’s known for its chic design, has a thriving food culture...

Porto is an easy city to paint. It rises steeply out of the Duoro river, making the red roofs of the city look like an uneven staircase, winding between elegant churches and historic buildings. Some of the best neighbourhoods to stay in in Porto are located below these roofs, on narrow streets lined with grand townhouses and palaces - many that have been converted into hotel accommodation...

There’s plenty of choice when it comes to accommodation for Nashville pilgrims, with different kinds popping up in different Nashville neighbourhoods. If you want to match your ideal Nashville experience with the right kind of neighbourhood start with our Guru’s guide to Nashville’s Neighbourhoods.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Valencia, from the historic highlights of El Carmen and the Old Town; to foodie favourite, Ruzafa; El Cabanyal for beach-lovers; and the modernist treasures of L'Eixample...

Always bright and exciting, Hong Kong is a city of great contrasts. Frenetic with human activity and commerce, Hong Kong also has its pockets of serenity - even within the whirl of shopping and eating and exploring you’ll discover Tai Chi in the park, and time for a formal afternoon tea.

Geneva isn’t officially a global capital, but it certainly has all the hallmarks or one: it’s a wealthy, cosmopolitan political centre, home to the headquarters of the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, the World Bank and the Red Cross. While these may impress potential visitors, they’re probably not so appealing as all the chocolate-box-worthy photos of Geneva sitting beside Lake Geneva under the Swiss Alps. Or the promise of actual chocolate! Geneva is known for its jewellers and chocolatiers, many of which you can find in the cobbled-streets of the Old Town, which is one of the largest in Europe. It is the first part of this paragraph that most impacts Geneva’s accommodation offering, though, and there’s plenty of business accommodation, as well as less business-y options like boutique hotels and five star grande dames.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Toronto’s neighbourhoods will help you find the perfect place to stay: be close to everything Downtown, or on the Harbourfront, be hip in Queen West, or foodie in Kensington Market. Read our guide to find your match...

This detailed guide is designed to uncover the best towns and resorts on the Isle of Wight, whether you’re here to sail, to relax on the beach, to explore and see the sights, for a romantic break, a family holiday and more!

The Centro Storico has the gorgeous architecture and top sightseeing spots; Chiaia offers bay views and fantastic shopping; Quartieri Spangnoli’s narrow, winding streets are authentically lived in; Santa Lucia is the old fisherman’s quarter, right by the water; while Vomero's a top spot for the well-to-do traveller: boasting historic architecture, bustling cafes and lovely restaurants.

Discover the best neighbourhoods in Rome to stay in, whether you're here to see the ancient sights, or the modern ones, to eat and drink well, to shop well, or just experience la bella vita of Rome.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Liverpool’s neighbourhoods knows where to stay: Cavern Quarter for Beatles pilgrims, Albert Dock for the museums and galleries, the Centre for shopping, and Sefton Park for green space...

Don’t let the presence of European administrators let you make the assumption that Brussels isn’t hip, happening and historic. This is a cool city, the largest in Belgium, and there’s plenty of choice when it comes to entertainment, and to accommodation. 

We want you to use our detailed guide to Vienna’s neighbourhoods to help you find the perfect place to stay in Vienna for you. Because Vienna isn’t the easiest city to find the perfect accommodation in. But whether you’re visiting Vienna to follow in the footsteps of The Third Man, to admire the Art Nouveau art and architecture, to see the dancing horses, visit the opera house, experience the coffee-house culture, or just try authentic sacher tort, we can recommend a neighbourhood and hotel for you.