Now in its 16th year, this connoisseurs' favorite presents many of the great boutique hotels of the world especially to enhance your travel enjoyment. These properties' hallmarks include exquisitely appointed guestrooms and suites, inspired architecture, luxurious ambiance, amazing amenities and personal service par excellence.

This gorgeous guidebook encompasses 255 grand luxe hotels, city center hotels, outstanding resorts, affordable elegance and wonderful country inns. Each has been hand-selected and the detailed information included gives the travel readers a glimpse of the little touches that separate these exceptional properties from merely first class.

The spectacular cover is the Chinese Room, a part of Blakes Restaurant in Blakes Hotel, London. This amazing hotel features the essence of travel and history with Asian, Colonial and Eastern European influences combining seamlessly to create the ideal blend of color, texture and atmosphere. Blakes is the blueprint for the "fashionable small hotel" not only in London, but throughout the world.

What the World is saying about Elegant Small Hotels:

"The book includes the world's finest grand luxe hotels, resorts and country inns."
~ International Travel News

"Every great hotel in this guide is unique."
~ Hideaways International

" Elegant Small Hotels contains all the information you will need to select the right hotel experience … the hotels described in this book are ideal for the discriminating traveler."
~ Grandtimes.com (Internet Magazine)

"I wanted to let you know that our founder really loves Elegant Small Hotels and is excited to be included in your beautiful book."
~ The Golden Door Spa

"What you find is a seductive listing of luxurious lodgings… Now in its 16th edition, I have found it to be a valuable guide to finding the best of what's out there. Here's your passport to the comfort of intimate first-class digs."
~ Jack McGuire, Frequent Flyer Magazine

This best-selling Guide can also be found online:

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