Where to stay

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.

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 towns and villages of the Cotswolds, from Burford with its pretty high street; to Chipping Campden, birthplace of the Arts and Crafts movement; and historic Cirencester. Check availability and book online.

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!

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.

Riads make for an atmospheric stay, but Marrakech has plenty of wonderful hotels too, including some fantastic converted buildings around Djemaa El Fna.  If you’re looking for luxurious, or relaxing surrounds, you might prefer going outside of the Medina to Palmeraie.  Honeymooners famously love Marrakech, but it’s an exciting family holiday too, and can be great value if you need it to be!

Gateway to the wonders of south east Asian, Singapore is a vibrant, tropical metropolis with a rich history and culture, and exciting cuisine! It’s a technologically innovative city, known for its fantastic shopping, and lively atmosphere. And a really unique place to explore, as well as being an easy place to acclimatise to the region. Singapore is a very modern and outward looking city, so it’s got all the big hotel brands you may know and favour, as well as plenty of its own unique accommodation options. It’s a big city! there’s really something for every taste.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of Phoenix for visitors, from the museums and public art of Downtown, to the outdoorsy resorts of Scottsdale, and the hiking (and golfing) of Paradise Valley. Check availability and book online.

Our guide to where to stay in Derbyshire aims to help you uncover the best towns or centres in Derbyshire for your ideal visit. Whether you’re here to walk the Pennine Way, or the Derwent Valley; or hike, bike, cave or climb in the Peak District; or visit one of the incredible local halls, manors or abbeys; or to just relax in one of Derbyshire’s market or spa towns, like Ashbourne or Buxton, we’ll help you find the perfect place to stay. Or the perfect combination of towns and centres to stay in.

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.

Osaka is grittier, more entrepreneurial and more vibrantly fun-loving than Tokyo. It’s also a much more affordable destination, and the best place in the whole of Japan for a bar crawl. It’s got great food, and great shopping, and a reputation for friendliness. Osaka is an historic destination too, though, you probably recognise Osaka Castle? it’s one of the most famous landmarks in Japan, a vast, many-roofed building built on two rock platforms - both with moats? And Osaka also has a number of important shrines, an important history museums, several art museums and galleries, an aquarium, and an outpost of Universal Studios. Accommodation in the neighbourhoods around the castle, and the older parts of town, is a mix of ryokan, luxury and boutique hotels, and aparthotels. While the downtown neighbourhoods, with their sparkling, contemporary bars, restaurants and shopping precincts, offer more in the line of high tech. and contemporary accommodation - including capsule hotels.

The Hotel Guru’s guide to where to stay on Santorini has practical advice and recommendations about Santorini’s main towns and centres — just what you need to help you decide which one will be the perfect base for your visit to this spectacular island. Whether you’re here to admire the unique white, cubist architecture, soak up the sunsets across the caldera, spend time on black and white beaches, visit her wineries, archaeological treasures, or buzzing tavernas, or a combination of all of this and more, there will be some towns and centres offering you more than others. Plus they’re all so beautiful it’s difficult to choose on photos alone…

Our guide to where to stay in Berkshire is designed to help you uncover the best towns, centres and neighbourhoods in Berkshire for you. We’ll help you find the right area to stay in, whether you’re here for a horse race, to dine in Michelin starred restaurants, to visit castles and historic sites, to explore a green and pleasant part of the UK with your family, or just to relax on the river. And most especially if you’re here to do a combination of the above!

The Hotel Guru’s guide to Kyoto’s neighbourhoods will help you find the perfect place to stay: from historic Gion, to atmospheric Southern Higashiyama, or convenient Downtown.

Zürich has plenty of neighbourhoods to choose from, where historic architecture, monuments, museums and galleries abound. Whether it’s the historic Old Town, lively Langstrasse, or Seefeld for lake views. Our Hotel Guru’s guide to where to stay in Zürich should help you find your match...

Charming, vibrant, sunny, and a little bit Italian, Nice is the Côte d’Azur’s capital, a place where the art scene buzzes, the beach beckons, and the food beguiles. This is a city for shopping, sunbathing, strolling through gardens or art galleries, and eating and drinking well...

Because the Hawaiian winds makes all the difference to weather conditions and terrain, Kauai is often divided into four regions, the South Shore, the North Shore, the East Side and the West Side. There are centres in each region, but it’s not a bad idea to start your search by the weather conditions you most fancy...

O’ahu is the third largest Hawaiian island, and home to Hawaii’s capital and largest city, Honolulu.  So it’s easy to end up on O’ahu if you’re heading for Hawaii generally.  O’ahu is also the most populated island.  O’ahu’s map also reveals Waikīkī Beach; Pearl Harbour; Diamond Head; Kailua Bay; Turtle Bay and the North Shore.  Of course O’ahu is a tropical beauty, which is also one of the main reasons people want to visit, with a long coastline of sandy beaches fringed by gently swaying palm trees. 

Sunny, romantic Dubrovnik is an orange-roofed city of charming historic architecture, set beside a sheltered harbour and emerald seas. It’s not just beautiful, it’s also inviting and ancient, and yet it is still unspoiled by the spread of its charm.

There is a whole lot of accommodation in Orlando!  Around a million people live here, but around 62 million people visit each year, so there are lots of places to stay, in a vast range of shapes and sizes.  With this in mind, we’re here to help with our guide to the neighbourhoods of Orlando.

Bangkok has many facets: the ancient temples and palaces; the world renowned shopping - both market and mall; the food… and then it’s all topped off with the wonderful activity of the streets and the genuine friendliness of the people. This is a city to lose yourself in, and find yourself in, and as long as you know where you’re staying you’re just a tuk-tuk ride from a nap and a change of clothes. So you can get on out there again and keep exploring.