Preferred Hotels L.V.X. Collection and Preferred Residences 2025

One of Ireland's oldest inhabited castles, Kilkea in County Kildare has stood in some form since the twelfth century and now operates as a 140-room hotel set across a demesne of formal grounds and parkland. The scale places it in a different tier from Ireland's smaller castle retreats, trading intimacy for architectural breadth and a sense of living history that few properties of any size can match.

Fox Harb'r Resort occupies a private stretch of Nova Scotia's Northumberland Shore, combining an 88-room lodge, a private vineyard, and a Doug Carrick and Tom McBroom-designed nine-hole ocean course into a self-contained property that reads less like a hotel than a working estate. The East Coast setting shapes everything from the architecture to the kitchen, where a traditional lobster boil anchors the resort's food program.

The Leela Ambience Gurugram occupies a commanding position on National Highway 8, bringing the group's signature palatial register to Gurugram's corporate corridor. With 322 rooms across hotel and residences, it operates at the larger end of Delhi-NCR luxury, placing it in direct conversation with the city's most substantial business-and-leisure properties. For travellers connecting through the NCR on extended schedules, the scale and Leela lineage carry weight.

A 53-room boutique hotel on Vandon Street, SW1, The Guardsman occupies a quiet address in Westminster that places it closer to Buckingham Palace and St James's Park than most of its London peers. Its compact scale and discreet location make it a considered choice for travellers who prefer neighbourhood calm over lobby spectacle. Plan ahead: rooms at this size of property move quickly.

Garza Blanca Resort & Spa Cancun sits along the Caribbean-facing corridor north of the Hotel Zone, operating 452 rooms at a scale that places it firmly in the large-format resort tier. As part of the Tafer Hotels & Resorts portfolio, it shares brand DNA with Hotel Mousai while offering a distinctly Cancun-facing positioning — broad beach access, multiple pools, and a service architecture designed around full-stay immersion.

Unlike the minimalist boutique hotels that dominate Istanbul's design conversation, AJWA Sultanahmet takes a different position: a 61-room property in Fatih that fuses Azerbaijani cultural identity with Ottoman-era craft traditions, placed directly within the historic peninsula. Starting from $280 per night, it sits in a peer set that includes the Four Seasons Sultanahmet but pursues a distinctly different aesthetic and cultural register.

SoHo Hotel Toronto occupies a converted loft building at 318 Wellington St W, placing 145 rooms inside the Entertainment District's most walkable block for restaurants, live venues, and the financial core. The property sits in a mid-tier between boutique independents and the city's major luxury flags, offering loft-scale proportions that standard hotel construction rarely replicates.

Pendry Park City is Montage International's first mountain resort, earning a Michelin Key in 2024 with ski-in/ski-out access to Canyons Village at Park City Mountain — the largest ski resort in the United States. The property's 152 rooms pair clean-lined modernist design with alpine comfort, while dining spans a Japanese grill, the Kita restaurant, and a European-inspired après-ski lounge. Rates from $369 per night.

A Michelin Key-awarded agriturismo in the Maremma countryside, Locanda Rossa occupies a restored farmhouse on a working estate near Capalbio, with 37 rooms where half-timbered ceilings meet contemporary interiors, an on-estate restaurant drawing heavily from its own produce, and the Tyrrhenian coast minutes away. Open April through November, it sits within 90 minutes of Rome by car.

Positioned on Piazza Fontana in Milan's historic centre, Rosa Grand Milano is a 327-room property within the Starhotels Collezione portfolio, placing it steps from the Duomo and the city's core commercial and cultural districts. The address situates guests inside the dense fabric of central Milan rather than at its edges, making the hotel a practical base for both business and leisure at the upper end of the city's mid-to-large hotel tier.

Amrit Ocean Resort & Residences on Singer Island represents a distinct strand of South Florida hospitality: wellness-anchored, oceanfront, and designed at a scale—155 rooms—that separates it from the mega-resort corridor further south. Positioned along Riviera Beach's quieter Atlantic shore, it occupies a peer set defined less by nightlife programming and more by deliberate, restorative architecture and access to open water.

A 52-room hotel on Rue La Pérouse, steps from the Champs-Élysées, the Majestic occupies the quieter, residential edge of the 16th arrondissement where Avenue Kléber meets the Arc de Triomphe quarter. Its small room count places it in the same intimate tier as Paris's design-led independents, offering a counterpoint to the grand-palace scale of nearby flagships.

Edgewood Tahoe earned a Michelin One Key in 2024 and the 2025 World Travel Awards title for North America's Leading Boutique Resort. The 154-room LEED Silver-certified lodge sits directly on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, pairing a George Fazio-designed golf course with an 8,500-square-foot spa, year-round outdoor pool, and the Bistro at Edgewood, which draws comparisons to California's West Coast culinary register. A cashless property with private ski shuttles to Heavenly Mountain.

Set across 3,500 protected acres in Richmond, Rhode Island, The Preserve Sporting Club & Resort positions itself at the intersection of active outdoor programming and resort-grade accommodation. With 51 rooms and direct access to the surrounding Carolina Management Area, it draws guests seeking sustained immersion in managed wilderness rather than a single-night stopover.

PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens occupies a different tier from Florida's oceanfront resort circuit, anchored instead by golf and a sprawling sports-oriented campus across 360 rooms. The property sits within a gated golf community, giving it a distinct residential character that separates it from South Florida's beach-centric luxury hotels. It functions as a destination in its own right, drawing guests who treat the resort as the attraction rather than a base for exploring elsewhere.