Ideas for summer destinations from World’s Best Hotels

No. 4 ol Donyo Lodge
Mbirikani Group Ranch
Kenya

If you still have not decided about your summer vacation, have a look at the list of this year’s World’s Best Hotels. It is interesting to find that results reflect a growing preference for the exotic - which, according to me, is not a new trend. Six of the year’s Top 10 hotels overall are safari lodges in Africa, while the number of winning hotels in the top 50 located in Mexico and Central and South America has increased fivefold since 2010.

No. 1 Singita Grumeti Reserves (Sasakwa Lodge, Sabora Tented Camp, Faru Faru Lodge)
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

No. 2 Singita Sabi Sand at Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve (Ebony Lodge, Boulders Lodge, Castleton Camp)
Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa

The obvious trend is search for authenticity of place.

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