I've always wanted to stay at Rayavadee in Krabi, Thailand.

It has the most spectacular setting, on its own wooded peninsula, with the warm turquoise ocean on both sides and surrounded by soaring limestone cliffs. There's a huge infinity pool looking out over the bay. The hotel has luxurious pool villas scattered about the spacious grounds.

It's not phenomenally expensive like the Burj Arab or somewhere like that but I'd still prefer it to an 7* hotel somewhere less scenic.

http://www.rayavadee.com/en/

i wouldn`t stay in any hotel unless i had no other option.

Do you prefer to rent villas ?

This resort would be my other choice, a new Maldives island called Milaidhoo which has just opened. 300 x 800m, tiny, with only 50 villas. It's about £2k a night minimum so I'll never be able to afford it, but it looks so beautiful.

http://www.milaidhoo.com/

the thought of sleeping in a hotel bed makes my skin crawl so if money was no object i would buy a trailer of some kind [and employ a driver].

https://sydney.park.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html

That Sydney hotel has a great central location, Dee.

This thread could be useful and give us all holiday ideas.

There's a rather nice one in Torquay that I fancy, which even has a room with views of herds of Wildebeest sweeping majestically past. Sounds great and all for just £7.20p a night.

https://youtu.be/tcliR8kAbzc

I should of added for the famous Sydney NYE show.

Indeed! Pity we don't have the money to go to these so called fabulous destinations till we win the lottery.

Taj Buckingham Gate in London

http://www.taj51buckinghamgate.co.uk/

Lion Sands

http://www.lionsands.com/

Longitute 131

http://www.lionsands.com/

Or any hotel that is a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World collection.

Alternative to a hotel would be to rent an upscale luxury yacht for the summer months around the med.

Mayfair and Park Lane I suppose. Though I'm more of an Old Kent Road man by nature.

If money was no object I'd like to stay at Claridges for a couple of weeks.

Not being too fussy I would settle for The Dorchester, The Ritz or The Mayfair, and when in Singapore one of those superb hotels on or just off of Orchard Rd.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vKkO-Vg3Vb...HE+GERMANS.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uv8DJjbHypA/hqdefault.jpg

A vegan friendly one somewhere near a warm turquoise coloured sea.

there's one in Swindon, I've always wanted to stay at.

There,s a few

Sussex
www.gravetyemanor.co.uk/

Jaipur
https://tajhotels.com/en-in-taj-rambagh-palace-jaipur/

Thailand
www.soneva.com/soneva-kiri/
Phuket
www.sixsenses.com/resorts/yao-noi/destination

London:
The Lanesborough
Mandarin Oriental
The Conought

A few days on the Maharaja,s Express train would be great too

Raffles any good for you?

www.raffles.com/singapore

For the show I'd stay at the Shanghai again asking for the room I had & took this photo from! Would be amazing for new year & the hotel was lovely, particularly the cocktail lounge that was about 7 floors higher than my room!
https://goo.gl/photos/pizBE8MhWdUJypgF9

The Icehotel in Sweden. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ic...w=1360&bih=591 hopefully with the aurora borealis making an appearance at some point (unlike when I did my Hurtigruten trip and it stubbornly refused to show it's face ).

I'm with you there (not literally, of course)

If I were forced to take a holiday with this money then I would try and opt for a self-contained chalet or maybe villa with a nice sea view and a private pool.

I find hotels very strange places, particularly five star hotels, I don't need that level of being fussed over, it's just an embarrassment.

The Burj Al Arab in Dubai. The Palace of The Lost City, NW Province, South Africa.

Makes your skin crawl?
Don't get that, do you think that the sheets/duvet covers are never washed, or what?
Personally I only use hotels for short stays, Friday p.m. to Monday a.m. for example, other than that I rent a house/condo/apartment etc. for a week or more.
I've stayed in lots of hotels, I don't doubt that there are many that people think of as better than the two that I most remember as really outstanding, and luxurious.
First would be the Baglioni Regina, on Via Vittorio Veneto, Rome, second would be The Westin Valencia, almost opposite Valencia C.F.s football stadium in Valencia, Spain.

All joking aside there is a brilliant hotel in Torquay "The Sommerville"

Money no object then no hotel in the world would be on my list. A luxury apartment everytime and in Barcelona my favourite city.