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Rosewood Mansion at Park Avenue

New York, USA

The Mansion keeps the scale of the house it was — 187 rooms behind a neo-Italian Renaissance façade at 70th and Park, with a drawing room, a library and a garden terrace rather than a lobby. It is a quiet building in a quiet part of the Upper East Side: the Frick is two blocks away, Central Park three, and Madison Avenue runs parallel.

Sasakwa stands on a hill above the Grumeti reserve — 350,000 acres of private concession on the western corridor of the Serengeti, where the migration passes between May and July. The lodge is built as an Edwardian manor house, and each of the nine cottages has its own heated pool looking out over the plain. Because the concession is private, night drives and off-road tracking are permitted.

Six Senses Zighy Bay

Musandam Peninsula, Oman

Zighy Bay sits in the Musandam peninsula between mountains and the Gulf of Oman, and guests can arrive by paraglide from the ridge above, by boat, or down the mountain road. The villas are built as an Omani village in stone and mud render, each with a private pool. The spa is set into a wadi, and dinner can be taken at a table on the mountain-top with the bay 300 metres below.

Soneva Jani sits in the five-and-a-half kilometre lagoon of Medhufaru, one of the largest in the Maldives, with only twenty-five overwater villas spread far enough apart that neighbours are not in view. Each has a retractable bedroom roof for the night sky and most have a slide into the lagoon. The island runs an observatory with a resident astronomer and an open-air cinema over the water.