10 Of The Most Instagram-Worthy Hotels In The World
From underwater hotels in the Indian Ocean to otherworldly landscapes in the Utah desert, Instagram provides no shortage of travel inspiration.
Whether you’re looking for iconic London landmarks to visit or you’re venturing across the Atlantic to put LA’s hotels to the test, we’ve handpicked some of the world’s most Instagrammable hotels that provide the perfect backdrops for holidays drenched in incredible views.
Il Pellicano, Tuscany
The rocky shores of this Tuscan beach hotel might not be particularly enjoyable underfoot, but boy, do they serve up some serious Insta-worthy shots. And it’s not just the Instagram generation who have fallen in love with Il Pellicano, iconic American photographer Slim Aarons started shooting society figures, celebs and all-round jet-setters there in the 1960s, quipping that he “captured attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places” – and he wasn’t wrong.
Today the hotel is a favourite with the fashion set (naturally) and those into their design as the hotel is known for its tasteful decor and newly launched site, ISSIMO, which sells a curated collection of gorgeous Italian pieces.
Website: WWW.HOTELILPELLICANO.COM
Sugar Beach – A Viceroy Resort, St. Lucia
The only hotel in St. Lucia that sits between the island’s most famous landmark, The Pitons. The hotel, which was opened by David Bowie and The Rolling Stone’s one-time accountant, British entrepreneur Roger Myers, is without a doubt the most luxe and lavish on the Caribbean island.
website: Wwww.viceroyhotelsandresorts.com
The Giraffe Manor, Nairobi, Kenya
You’d be forgiven for double-taking the shots of this hotel, which offers one of the most unique holiday experiences on the planet. The Giraffe Manor in Nairobi looks like an English stately home covered in creeping ivy, surrounded by verdant green gardens and sunny terraces, but it sits on 12 acres of private land within 140 acres of Indigenous forest in the Langata suburb of Nairobi.
Expect to see the big six and dine with the house’s resident giraffes at breakfast time, when they like to poke their heads in through the window. One for the bucket list for sure.
Amangiri, Utah, USA
If any place epitomised #nofilter, it’s this. The Amangiri, loved by intrepid travel influencers and celebrities alike, sits within 600 acres of the Colorado Plateau and produces the most Instagram-worthy light you’ve ever seen.
From ochre in the morning to apricot by midday and a dazzling pink at dusk, the landscape is simultaneously rigid, wild and imposing but also psychedelic and pretty.
Inside the hotel, there’s a range of stylish accommodation on offer, from suites that frame the surrounding dunes, plateaus and mountain ridges to tented pavilions surrounded by towers of desert rock.
The sheer lack of human life in this region is enough to make you sit back and switch off for real.
website: www.aman.com
Treehotel, Sweden
Located in Harads, near the Lule River, about 100 kilometres from Luleå airport, Treehotel sits in a remote village with a population of only about 600. It’s eery and magical all at once and definitely one for those who want to feel at one with nature. The rooms have been created in partnership with some of Scandinavia’s leading architects, suspending four to six meters above ground, literally amongst the trees and with spectacular views of the Lule River. Ecology is at the heart of what the Treehotel team do, using sustainable construction and energy solutions with as little environmental impact as possible.
website: www.treehotel.se
The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, USA
From the iconic teal sign to the pink exterior and the signature palm print wallpaper, every corner of The Beverly Hills Hotel is screaming out to be Instagrammed—and it probably has.
Affectionately known as the ‘Pink Palace’, it’s not just the aesthetics that are iconic, but the surrounding areas too as the hotel sits in the famous 90210 postcode, between the beach and Los Angeles.
Every inch of the hotel has been Instagrammed, from the powder pink walls to the iconic palm print wallpaper.
website: www.dorchestercollection.com
Claridge’s
With the promise of Art Deco interiors, Tiffany-hued china at afternoon tea, chirpy doormen and that black and white chequered floor, few London hotels hold such magic as Claridge’s. Beginning life in 1856 it’s been loved by movie stars, statesmen, fashion designers, global dignitaries, royalty and regular Londoners for over a century.
Hotel Grand Tremezzo, Lake Como, Italy
There’s a reason the world’s most glamorous have been flocking here for decades, from Marlene Dietrich in the Golden Age to George Clooney today – who also happens to live down the road. From Lake Como itself, the Hotel Grand Tremezzo stands grand like something out of a Wes Anderson film, while the views of the still lake and snow-tipped mountains that can be seen from the hotel itself feel like they’ve been plucked from a fairytale.
From the 1960s James Bond-esque speedboats to the WOW (water-on-water pool—that’s a floating pool on the lake, FYI), the stylish period interiors, and the grand sweeping entrance, Hotel Grand Tremezzo makes for the perfect dolce vita moment.
Website: www.grandhoteltremezzo.com
Royal Mansour Marrakech, Morocco
Find tranquillity just a few steps away from the famous Jemaa El Fna square at the stunning Royal Mansour. One reason it’s so magical is that it’s done away with rooms and suites and instead offers guests the chance to bed down in unique, luxury riads spread across a magical medina accessed by little alleyways and secret doors.
Each riad in the collection is unique and spread over a whopping three floors—plenty of room to capture your holiday snaps—and that’s before you’ve even hit up one of the country’s most iconic pools.
website: www.royalmansour.com
Conrad Maldives, Maldives
The Maldives is in no short supply of romantic Instagram spots, but The Conrad Maldives really takes the biscuit. Famed for its blissed out luxury water villas and crystal clear waters, as well as the world’s first subaquatic eatery: a restaurant literally under the sea. But it’s the undersea residence, The Muraka, that’s really going to pull in those double taps on the grid.
Above water, guests who book into the special suite can enjoy two bedrooms, an infinity pool (a Maldives prerequisite), a 24-hour butler, a private chef and on-call spa treatments. Guests can then take the elevator down to their private underwater aquarium sleeping quarters to marvel through the 180-degree curved acrylic dome at the sea creatures swimming by.