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Great Gardens at International Hotels: Editor's Top 10

Our Editor's Top 10 list for Great Gardens at International Hotels helps you decide where you want to go. Editor's Top 10 lists offer selections from our editors that help you plan your travel based on your lifestyle, entertainment, sightseeing, or recreation options.

Do you think a hotel is only as good as the gardens surrounding it? You'll be wowed by the lush, vibrant outdoor offerings at the hotels selected for this list. At these properties, you really can stop and smell the roses—and much more.
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1. Gul Konaklari Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$130-$195 
Sumer mah Mustafapasa, Urgup, Turkey
To step through the gate of Gul Konaklari (Rose Mansions) is to step into a world of color in an area where browns and yellows are the norm. Reception is just inside the gate but the eye is immediately drawn to what lies beyond-the rose garden which gave the hotel its name (gul is Turkish for... Read Entire Review »
2. El Jardin Del Eden Add to eGuidebook
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$110-$220 
Built: 1993 
Renovated: 2000 
On slope above Tamarindo Beach, Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Set on a hillside, where it catches breezes and offers sweeping vistas over Tamarindo and the Pacific surf, this hotel, built in 1998, is a pleasure to the eye. Approached via a bumpy unpaved road from, the driveway drops to a small gravel forecourt and parking area. This luscious property is entere... Read Entire Review »
3. Inkaterra Machu Picchu Add to eGuidebook
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$299-$556 
Built: 1991 
Renovated: 2005 
Machu Picchu Pueblo, Machu Picchu, Peru
This hotel, 300 m from town, five km (with 14 hair-raising hairpin bends) from Machu Picchu, is a delightful, rambling hacienda-style resort parked at the base of one of the world's greatest archeological sites. Tucked into an exotic jungle valley overlooking the roaring Urubamba River and the razor... Read Entire Review »
4. Hotel Pitrizza Add to eGuidebook
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$1,547-$2,959 
Renovated: 1990 
Localita Liscia di Vacca, Porto Cervo, Sardinia Island, Italy
Situated on a dramatic point of land wisped with cypress trees and golden sand, this property is about as rustic and romantic as it gets on this rustic romantic island. It comes with its own private beach and a seawater pool carved from the granite rock. Elegant villas hidden behind stone walls and... Read Entire Review »
5. Hospes Las Casas del Rey de Baeza Add to eGuidebook
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$215-$387 
Santiago, 2 Pl Jesus De La Redencion, Seville, Spain
This hotel, tucked away in a web of curving cobblestoned streets in a delightful Sevillano neighborhood, ranks as the best contemporary renovation in this city. Rates have risen since Hospes acquired the facility a few years ago, but this stylish and well-designed establishment is also marvelously o... Read Entire Review »
6. Reid's Palace Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$711-$1,682 
Built: 1891 
Renovated: 2000 
Estrada Monumental, 139, Funchal, Madeira Islands, Portugal
On 4 hectares of cliff-top gardens overlooking the ocean, 30 km from the airport, this 1891 Edwardian masterpiece is one of Portugal's most famous hotels. Once again Madeira's finest, it is primed for the world's moguls, mandarins and muck-a-mucks. This nest is in good order thanks to eagle-eyed man... Read Entire Review »
7. Hosteria las Quintas Add to eGuidebook
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$157-$250 
Built: 1965 
Renovated: 2006 
Blvd Diaz Ordaz 9, Colonia Cantarranas, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Near Posada Jacarandas, this property ranks up with Las Mananitas as one of the best choices in Cuernavaca. Although the food may not measure up to that at Las Mananitas, the staff-who number more than 170 individuals-is friendlier, the grounds are more spacious and the facilities are more extensive... Read Entire Review »
8. Curtain Bluff Add to eGuidebook
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$595-$3,695 
Built: 1962 
Renovated: 2005 
Curtain Bluff, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda
Curtain Bluff is one of the Caribbean's venerable small resorts, a secluded, high-end all-inclusive that has been under the same private ownership for 45 years. Owners take great care in every detail and are often seen dining amidst guests and strolling the property to ensure things are in tip-top s... Read Entire Review »
9. Ston Easton Park Add to eGuidebook
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$157-$578 
Built: 1739 
Renovated: 2000 
Bath, England
Ston Easton Park is about as formal a hotel as can be imagined in England's green and pleasant land. Located on the A37 south of Bristol, this 18th-century Palladian mansion occupies 10 hectares of landscaped meadow and valley, through which flows the swift stream called River Norr. Far more ornate... Read Entire Review »
10. The Tongsai Bay Cottages & Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$297-$1,405 
Built: 1986 
Renovated: 2003 
84 Moo 5, Bophut, Koh Samui, Thailand
Nestled on a private beach in a beautiful cove, this property is recovering nicely from years of neglect. All cottages and villas feature extended decks with whirlpool tubs or large, walled gardens with outdoor tubs and showers. Ongoing renovations are bringing the hotel into competition with Le Roy... Read Entire Review »
11. Hotel Baur au Lac Add to eGuidebook
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$383-$2,076 
Built: 1844 
Renovated: 1998 
Talstrasse 1, Zurich, Switzerland
One of Switzerland's most celebrated properties, this elegant hotel is superior to the well-known Widder. Owned and operated by the same family since 1844, this house continues to get the kind of attention other hotels only dream of. That attention, however, is not just from fans but from its owners... Read Entire Review »
12. Gidleigh Park Add to eGuidebook
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$687-$2,452 
Built: 1928 
Renovated: 1990 
Chagford, Devon, Chagford, England
Within the boundary of Dartmoor National Park, this hotel has in the past lacked the accolades and acclaim of Chewton Glen-at least outside of the restaurant-but the new owners appear to be intent on changing that. Since the last inspection, the American proprietors have departed, handing over the p... Read Entire Review »