Where to stay

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Crete’s towns and villages will help you match your travel plans with where to stay. Whether you want to explore Crete’s history in Heraklion, stay in charming old Chania, or head for a beach resort. Check availability and book online.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Detroit will help you pick where to stay. Choose between central, bustling Downtown, and nightlife annex Greektown, culture-rich Midtown with its many museums, hip and historic Corktown, foodie favourite Eastern Market, grand, historic Boston-Edison and outdoorsy West Village

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the best neighbourhoods in Athens has tips and information to help you decide where to stay in Athens, whether you’re visiting this incredible city for its 5th century temples, and unrivalled historic treasures, or for its contemporary art, culture and vibrant, sunny lifestyle. Whichever of Athens’s neighbourhoods you decide is perfect for your visit, you’ll find a lot of life lived outdoors, in the narrow streets with their geranium-filled window boxes, or in the leafy squares.

Lovely Lisbon is super visitor friendly, with a holiday atmosphere in a compact, very walkable footprint. Lisbon makes it very easy for guests to enjoy themselves - even the public transport is charming! Lisbon’s central neighbourhoods are the best places for visitors to stay. While they all have their own character and plenty of visual variety, they’re all alike in being friendly and easily navigated.

Seattle is known for being a collection of very different neighbourhoods, as much as a city, so our guide to the best neighbourhoods to stay in in Seattle is packed with useful tips about what you’ll find where, aimed at helping you choose where to stay in Seattle. Whether you’re here to gorge at Pike Place Market, see the sights of Capitol Hill or drink coffee in Fremont or Ballard, we can match you up.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Verona will help you pick where to stay: from Città Antica and Piazza Brà in the historic centre; or Cittadella, between the historic centre and the station; to Veronetta, on the opposite side of the river; to family friendly Borgo Trento.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Fort Lauderdale will help you decide where to stay, from the visitor-friendly sands and numerous accommodation choices of Central Beach; to the shopping, entertainment and galleries of downtown neighbourhood, Las Olas...

Our detailed guide to Venice’s neighbourhoods is full of tips to help you work out which one is perfect for the trip you’re planning, whether you’re here for a romantic escape, to marvel at the sights, to live very well, to write a novel, or just to lose yourself in the wonder of a city of marble palaces built on a lagoon… Or a combination, the Hotel Gurus can recommend a neighbourhood to you.

Cancún is the jewel in the white sandy crown of Quintana Roo’s beach resort majesty. It has a diverse range of accommodation, spread throughout a diverse range of neighbourhoods, from the incredible beach resorts and honeymoon hotels of the two Hotel Zones, to the boutique and affordable options in Cancún Centro, to the peaceful beach huts on unspoiled Isla Blanca, or the buzzingly hip hotels of Punta Cancún...

Gorgeously historic with its flamboyant Moorish architecture, yet super hip and lauded by foodies, Seville is a wonderful city break destination. This is a well loved destination, either plenty of variety of accommodation, and a warm and welcoming response to visitors.

Charming Kent, regularly called the ‘Garden of England’, is a popular destination, loved for its coastlines as much as its lush fields and forests, its historic towns and centres, and iconic, chimney-shaped oast houses. And whatever your reason for visiting, the Hotel Guru’s guide to Kent’s towns and centres will help you find the right base for your Kent trip.

Discover the best neighbourhood to base yourself in Dubai, whether you’re here for the paradise of beaches, the world-class shopping, the desert and the souqs, the cuisine? or to explore this incredible Emirate and its history. Our detailed guide has recommendations for the best neighbourhood for families, explorers, shoppers, couples, and combinations of all of the above and more!

The Hotel Gurus guide to the neighbourhoods of Minneapolis is here to help you decide where to stay when you visit. Choose between central Downtown for the history and museums; hip North Loop for nightlife; green Linden Hills or St. Louis Park; or Bloomington for the Mall of America.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Palm Springs will help you decide where to stay, from its walkable Downtown, with its boutiques and lively nightlife; to arty, cool Uptown; peaceful, more resorts and residential neighbourhoods, South Palm Springs and the Deepwell Estates; The Mesa, which is set in a fantastic natural backdrop; luxurious Rancho Mirage; or upmarket foodie favourite Palm Desert. Check availability and book online.

Cornwall is the closest the UK gets to a riviera. It has beautiful beaches and bucket-and-space seaside towns, but also artistically inclined communes, rugged coastlines and wild moorland - so it’s get even more to offer than your traditional riviera rivera. All these things add to a memorable, and popular, holiday destination, and there’s a range of accommodation just as broad as Cornwall’s appeal!

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Turin will help you pick where to stay: from the central Centro Storico and Quadrilatero Romano; to foodie favourite San Salvario; bohemian Vanchiglia; peaceful Crocetta; and Aurora with its markets.

Some of us travel to Tuscany for a specific sight: Pisa’s tower? Florence’s duomo or Ponte Vecchio? Siena’s liquorice-striped cathedral? the whole of magical medieval San Gimignano?  There’s so much to see in Tuscany that you can’t really go wrong, but why not plan a trip that features the places you most like the sound of!

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Stuttgart’s neighbourhoods will help you pick where to stay: from central Mitte; historic Bohnenviertel; to hip Stuttgart-West; wallet-friendly Bad Canstatt; and family-friendly Stuttgart-Nord.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Bogotá will help you decide where to stay: from central Chapinero, to historic La Candelaria, relaxed Parque 93, or Zona Rosa - for nightlife lovers. Check availability and book online.

One of Tokyo’s appeals are the city’s contradictions, how can a city be both so historic and traditional, and yet so contemporary? And the type of accommodation you can find in Tokyo really reflects this, from historic, family-owned ryokans, to luxurious contemporary skyscrapers, quirkily elegant boutique hotels and chic business hotels. And then there’s Tokyo’s neighbourhoods to navigate. Our guide will certainly help with this...

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Québec City will help you pick where to stay: from historic and walkable Old Québec, to hip Saint-Roch; arty Montcalm; great value Saint-Jean-Baptiste; or foodie's fave., Limoilou.