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Top Hotel Spas Recommended by Our Readers in 2025

Debbie Kelly011 mins
Most hotels worth their weight in eucalyptus-scented towels have a spa to their name. Gone are the days of a single treadmill parked next to a steam room. Hotels are appealing to weary travelers and wellness seekers with sleek, modern facilities that rival standalone, destination spas with stunning designs, elaborate treatments, and state-of-the-art facilities such as three tiered-swimming pools, mineral baths, and Vichy showers. However, the best hotel spas are those that evoke the comforting luxuries of their locales, with regional treatments and inspired settings. Opt for a pure macadamia nut and coconut oil hydration massage at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Hawaii, or the Four Seasons Bora Bora’sKahaia Havenspa ritual featuring Tahitian black pearl powder and native vanilla. In every region, one hotel spa reigned supreme. Read on to discover some of the best places to get pampered around the world.
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Top Family-Friendly Travel Operators 2025: Our Readers’ Favorites

Bobby Spencer020 mins
Parents understand that ensuring the entire family remains happy during a vacation is quite a challenge. It requires more than just a shallow kiddie pool for a hotel to be deemed child-friendly. In recent years, a variety of travel organizations—ranging from boutique hotels to cruise lines, significant international and domestic airports, and tour operators—have shown a commitment to attracting families on the go. These companies have enhanced their childcare programs, curated exclusive activities for teenagers, and thoughtfully created opportunities for parents to take much-needed breaks from parenting while also facilitating family bonding experiences. That outdated kiddie pool? It has been transformed into a luxurious four-story, translucent water coaster that traverses the oceans.
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Top Hotel Brands of 2025: Our Readers’ Favorites

David Davidson014 mins
While the words “hotel chain” may drudge up thoughts of cookie-cutter interiors, dusty bed runners and carpet long overdue for a refresh, the world’s best brands are proving that sharing the same proprietary name doesn’t mean a property is destined to be bland or mediocre. In fact, the top hotels in the world are proving that there may very well be strength in numbers. Shared management provides, if nothing else, consistency. Our favorite hotel brands foster loyalty and set reliable standards: guests know they can count on exceptional service, food and beverage programs that will rival the best independent restaurants, and design that conjures a sense of place. You should know exactly where you are just by drifting along the Rosewood Mayakobá’s mangrove-fronted lagoon or lounging in the Four Seasons Hotel Miami’s Art Deco lobby. A stay at any one of these hotel chains, from the first trademarked Ritz-Carlton property in Boston, launched in 1927, to the hotly-anticipated grand openings set for later this year, could easily banish your fears of brand-name boredom with a single step through the front door, which will inevitably be held open by a cheerful attendant or a bellhop in full regalia.
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Top 10 Most Unfriendly Cities in the World 2025

Debbie Kelly019 mins
Every year,GoTravelDailysifts through tens of thousands of World’s Best Awards surveys to better understand where our readers love to go, and why. Of course, the responses say just as much, if not more, about what our readersdon’tlike. We asked readers to rank 266 cities on everything from their access to art and culture to the friendliness of their people: and some cities failed to warm tourists’ hearts. Not surprisingly, many of the cities that found themselves on our 2015 Unfriendliest Cities in America list (based on separate data from our annual America’s Favorite Places survey) were also called out in this census.
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Top Hotel Services of 2025 According to Our Readers

Lauren Newman031 mins
When Amber Gibson checked in at London’s The Goring Hotel this past June, she encountered a common annoyance of travel: her room was not ready yet. “They graciously apologized and asked if they could ‘bother’ me to have a glass of champagne at the bar while I waited,” says thefood and travel writerfrom Chicago. “Umm,yes—you can ‘bother’ me every day of the week with a glass of champagne.” Gibson loved her “sumptuous suite,” she recalls, “but it was really the service that was most memorable.” Gibson wasn’t the only person to get such friendly treatment from The Goring: the Belgravia hotel made the top 10 amongGoTravelDailyreaders for the best hotel service in the world. Among the top 20 winners (including a six-way tie for first place and a four-way tie for No. 20), service goes far beyond helping you with your bags. A few winning hotels offer round-the-clock butler service, and several winners employ concierges who belong to the prestigiousLes Clefs d’Or. One winning hotel in London even boasts that its staffers outnumber guests by two to one. However, readers also applauded hotels that offer intangible service: friendly staffers who seem authentically warm, rather than merely polite. The Goring did more to win Gibson’s loyalty than just ply her with bubbly. After checking in, she realized she’d left a sweater at another hotel. She asked The Goring to give that property a heads-up that she would come to get it. “There was no need,” she says. “When I got back after lunch, it was already hanging in my closet. I don’t think I’d stay anywhere else in London now. The Goring really won my heart.”
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Top Nightlife Hotels for Party Lovers in 2025

Lauren Newman021 mins
Hotels—at least, the very best of them—are so much more than a place to bed down. Often, hotels are the epicenter of a city’s nightlife, offering guests and locals everything from sleek jazz lounges to innovative mixology bars. In our annual World’s Best survey, readers were asked to rank their favorite hotels on a number of categories, including value, service, and—of course—their nightlife scene. For some, the best hotel bar is a watering hole meant for mingling with fellow travelers and unwinding after a long flight. Others seek out low-lit, bass-thumping clubs, where they can while away the evening hours before slipping quickly, and easily, back to their rooms. In Aspen, visitors to The Little Nell are after cozy, après ski sessions that can languish long after the final run of the day. In Miami, on the other hand, the most highly ranked hotels offer a far more electric scene, with DJ lineups, boozy punch bowls, and more than a city’s share of ultraviolet lights. No matter the scene, be it pearls and cigars or bikinis and blue tiki cocktails, all of these hotels and resorts offer an entry into each destination’s particular brand of nightlife. So slide into one of those cushy, pin-tucked booths and order a drink—ask for the house specialty—because these are the world’s best hotels for nightlife.citymaps.com
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Top-Rated Cruise Cabins of 2025: Reader’s Choice

Nicole Potter019 mins
Itineraries and onboard activities may be the first things you consider when planning a cruise, but don’t underestimate the value of a stylish stateroom. It’s tough for even the most seductive port of call or thrilling day zip-lining across the Lido Deck to make up for sleeping in a drab, windowless box. The World’s Best cruise lines—chosen each year by our readers—know that in compact cabins, every detail counts. Especially for cruisers on extended itineraries (sometimes as much as a month in length), cruise quarters are more than a place to store luggage; they are, temporarily, home. Comfortable rooms can even turn skeptics into devotees of ocean and river travel.
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Top 20 Family-Friendly Getaways for Parents

Martin Ruiz015 mins
Being a parent is rewarding, but it’s also riddled with responsibilities and a to-do list that redefines the term “the grind.” Between cleaning bottles, grocery shopping, crafting endless incarnations of chicken, and schlepping the brood to school, soccer, and beyond, moms and dads invariably watch the concept of free time evaporate as early as in the delivery room.
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Fluffy Gin and Tonic Waffles Recipe

Joshua Liu06 mins
Every year, particularly during family gatherings and visits with friends, I enjoy preparing my renowned indulgent fluffy gin and tonic waffles. Yes, you read that correctly—gin and tonic waffles. This dish has become my hallmark contribution at various dinner parties and special occasions, and I must admit that it’s a particularly indulgent treat that I prefer to keep to myself. 😉
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Top-Rated Luxury Boutique Hotels of 2025

Melissa Sullivan012 mins
Tanya Spaulding wasn’t just impressed by the attentive service at the Inn at Little Washington—she was almost in awe of it. “Every time we left our room, even for a short time, they came and refreshed the amenities and straightened up,” says the head of Minneapolis, Minnesota design firm Shea, Inc. “We joked that there were sensors and a commando team, ready for action the minute we left. That omniscient hospitality is a feature rarely—if ever—found in the larger hotels.” This intimacy is what compels travelers like Spaulding to seek out boutique properties like the 38-year-old Virginia wine-country inn, which ranked near the top in GoTravelDaily’s annual reader poll.
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12 Must-See Roman Fountains That Will Inspire Your Trip to Italy

Michael Boone016 mins
My favorite Roman fountain is tiny, just a lion’s head set in the old city wall along the Via Garibaldi as it rises up and out of the Trastevere district. A recent trip had me staying close by, and I visited frequently: the water, liquid crystal, was cool and sweet. I always drank deeply, pleased my connoisseurship was validated by locals who’d often join me to fill a jug or cup a hand.
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Ultimate Travel Guide: Discover Papua New Guinea

Nicole Potter08 mins
It’s not easy to travel to Papua New Guinea. The exact qualities that make the country so attractive to adventurers—its rugged natural beauty, thriving traditional cultures, and an anachronistic lack of infrastructure—are precisely what makes it such a challenging destination. The Australian government’s travel guidelines for the country serve as a long warning about various potential hazards: Landslides, car-jackings, gang violence, venomous snakes, and civil unrest.
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Explore Viking Sea: GoTravelDaily’s Review of Viking Cruises’ Latest Ship

Billy Conley013 mins
You will not find a casino on this cruise ship. I repeat: You will not find a casino on this cruise ship. For some folks, that might be a turn off. However, for many, it’s an enticement, signaling the kind of tone theViking Seaaims to set—quiet, restrained, and calming. This is the type of ship where you forgo staying up late at the bar or playing blackjack, because you know in the morning you have a great shore excursion ahead of you or a plate of incredible Norwegian-style waffles to enjoy (more on that later).Viking Seais the second oceangoing vessel from Viking Cruises, a company better known for its river cruising product. Their first 930-passenger vessel,Viking Star, which is identical toViking Sea, launched last year with much fanfare thanks to a slew of unique amenities like an infinity-edge pool cantilevered off the edge of the ship, a spa complete with a snow grotto, and yes, free WiFi, the holy grail for cruisers. Moreover, what really shines on board theViking Seaare the thoughtful touches and details that signal a well-designed space. Things like a soft grey and white throw draped on the back of a chaise longue, perfect for when you get chilly in the late afternoon. Or the blue-and-yellow folkloric plates and mugs in Mamsen’s, the casual café; the pattern is the same one used by Viking chairman Torstein Hagen’s mother, Mamsen. Rather, by forgoing big, bold furniture and lights in favor of sleek, midcentury Scandinavian décor, the ship has a mood and atmosphere that puts you at ease. In terms of the crowd, Viking caters to travelers 55 and older, and no children are allowed on board. GoTravelDaily was recently invited as a guest by Viking Cruises to experienceViking Seaas it made one of its maiden voyages, sailing from Le Havre, France, to Bergen, Norway. Here are some of the standout features on the ship.
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