Residents of the Azores are fiercely protective of their islands’ natural gifts. They’ve long been wary of tourism, but hotels like Santa Barbara Eco-Beach Resort show they’re slowly starting to come around — on their own terms.

Across England, it’s the country house hotels and old coaching inns where playfulness and eccentricity are allowed to shine.

All we can ask from a hotel, other than having good service, is that it’s interesting — that it catches and continually holds your attention. And the most interesting hotels of the Nordic countries are exactly what you’d hope they’d be.

Every month, the MICHELIN Guide hotel specialists share their top discoveries from across the world

Tourism is exploding in Croatia, especially along the country’s Adriatic coast, a stretch of shoreline that rivals nearly any other in terms of beauty, history, and hotels of all sizes.

Salt House Nantucket is starting its life as a pop-up hotel. It’s so new it doesn’t even have photography yet, but it might be your last chance this summer to book a great boutique hotel in the Cape Cod region.

Celebrate American Independence Day and the country's culinary diversity.

On the outskirts of Albuquerque, Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm has built a model for the future from the practices of the past.

If you had a treehouse as a kid, you know how special it was to have a place of your own, perched high up and away from the colorless concerns of real life. It was your little world to build and customize and manipulate and modify. It’s a wonder you survived.

From the coast of Phuket to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, these 13 hotel farms supply their restaurants with a bounty of fruit, vegetables, and sometimes even ice cream.

For a hotel to be successful, it must appeal to tourists. For it to be authentic, it must appeal to locals. Esmé Miami Beach is well on its way to doing both. Did we mention it’s also a village?

Five recent discoveries from the hotel experts at the MICHELIN Guide.

Belgium's beautiful heritage of hotels

Some hotels are not suitable for children.

How Isan’s ancient wisdom of fermentation lends its flavours to Thai food.

Forts and watchtowers typically stand guard on some pretty choice locations. That doesn’t change when they’re converted into hotels.

Five recent discoveries from the hotel experts at the MICHELIN Guide.

Never bland. Never boring. Never a dull moment at Amsterdam’s best boutique hotels.