The Top 10 Design Hotels

Elemente, one of Canada’s design magazines, has fashioned a  list of the top 10 design hotels around the world.

Included are hotels in big cities, resorts, and in out of the way locations.

The top 10 design hotels include:

• Indigo Patagonia in Natales, Chile (think the bottom of the world here!)
• Hotel Unique in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The hotel looks like a little watermelon
• Alva Park Resort and Spa in Fenals, Spain, one hour south of Barcelona
• The Outpost in Kruger National Park, South Africa where you can watch elephants from your room
• Five Hotel, Paris, France

• Lefay Resort and Spa in Lago di Garda, Italy

• Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island in Australia
• Casa Dell’Arte in Bodrum, Turkey
• Commune by the Great Wall in Shuiguan, China, an hour northwest of Beijing
• Luna2Private Hotel in Bali, Indonesia

Given the chance I think most of us would be happy to stay in a design rich, ecelectic spot rather than a chain hotel providing that it was remotely affordable.

Many of the hotels noted above are reasonable if one considers the market they are in. Indigo Patagonia has high season rates of $US260 per night whereas the Bali hotel is out of reach for most of us at it’s lowest rate of $US3000/night – and that’s without meals. The Parisan hotel is suprisingly affordable, in light of what is regularly charged in that city whereas The Outpost in Kruger National Park is expensive but inclusive of meals and game watching and very much on par with hotels of a similar ilk in the park.

The websites of these hotels are very inspiring and a little dreaming never hurt any of us.

Photo credit: Lago di Garda

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