Mr & Mrs Smith: The definitive boutique hotel collection…

Country: Germany
Location: Berlin
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Rates: €239-€399, including VAT; excludes buffet breakfast at €26.

Built by the Kaiser as a gift for his lawyer (and perhaps his very delightful wife), Schlosshotel im Grunewald is a regal, refined palace set in a green sprawl of gardens, and styled in the past by Karl Lagerfeld. There's a fine dining restaurant and an indulgent spa and swimming pool. It's a peaceful hotel, but the city centre is close by.

Country: France
Location: Paris
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Rates: €340-€390; excludes Continental breakfast (€21) and city tax.

Styled by Christian Lacroix, Hôtel le Bellechasse has all the flamboyancy of a Moulin Rouge showgirl, its bold boudoirs awash with colour. Rooms are styled around seven themes, including 'Avengers', 'Patchwork' and 'Quai d'Orsay', with murals, stripes and tactile textures. The Left Bank location means wining and dining galore.

Country: United Kingdom
Location: London
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Rates: £210-£1,500, excluding breakfast (£18.50 each) and VAT. Until 5 April 2010, there's an opening offer - Standard, Superior and Deluxe rooms can be booked from £195, including breakfast but not tax.

Tucked behind the glorious marble arches of Hyde Park's sturdiest landmark, The Arch is a grand Georgian pad, spread over seven former townhouses and two old mews houses. Walls are covered in hand-made Italian wallpaper and artwork by rising British talents, and bedrooms are kitted out with all the technology you could wish for.

Country: United Kingdom
Location: London
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Rates: £90-£340, including VAT; excludes à la carte breakfast.

Once home to Hogarth, Dean Street Townhouse has all the drama and decadence of the painter's pictures, along with cosmopolitan cool and a British brasserie. Various artists have passed through the 18th-century doors, and in its recent re-incarnation as a Soho House-owned hip hotel, the restaurant, bar and bedrooms still lure in a creative crowd.

Country: Australia
Location: Hobart
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Rates: AU$490-AU$950, including cooked breakfast in the Source restaurant or Continental breakfast in-room, a seasonal local platter on arrival and a bottle of Muse Series wine.

Maverick, multi-tasking MONA Pavilions mixes a serene riverside setting with ultra-contemporary pavilions, original art, a winery, microbrewery, lip-smacking restaurant and alternative festivals - and comes up trumps. With an ambitious private museum in the pipeline, this is one for culture vultures, gourmets, gadget heads and style fiends.

Country: Australia
Location: Bay Of Fires
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Rates: Low season: AU$4,300; high season, AU$4,100 a double room, including four-day guided walk. Lodge-only stays: AU$900 a night.

You can stay at all-inclusive barefoot luxury Bay of Fires Lodge in north-east Tasmania without booking the four-day guided walk on offer, but you'd be missing a trick. After two days wandering pristine, white-sand beaches with a bush camp en route, the sparkling white on arrival tastes so much better... then kayak, chill and trek some more.

Country: Cambodia
Location: Siem Reap
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Rates: US$330-US$715, including à la carte and Continental buffet breakfast. Excludes 12 per cent tax and five per cent service charge.

Appealing to the inner cool-hunter in all of us, Hôtel de la Paix is architect Bill Bensley's shrine to style in Siem Reap. The look is at once contemporary and Cambodian, dreamt up to make the discerning traveller feel instantly at home. The inner courtyard and Boddhi tree will bring harmony to your Angkor experience; the Khmer cuisine at in-house restaurant Meric will bring a smile to your lips.

Country: United States
Location: Big Sur
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Rates: US$475-US$2,185, including buffet breakfast; excludes taxes (10.5 per cent).

The cabins and cottages at Post Ranch Inn are strung along a rocky-ridged slip of Californian cliff. These recycled-redwood rooms offer total seclusion and nothing but soaring condors, starry nights, breathtaking views and a wood-burning fire for company. The only reason to venture out from your peaks-and-Pacific isolation will be for some divine dining at Sierra Mar or a soothing treatment in the spa.

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Location: Jamaica
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Rates: US$300-US$500, room only. The 'Guest of House' rate is US$300-US$500 each, and includes all meals, snacks, some alcoholic drinks and a fridge stocked with soft drinks, wine, crackers, cheese and Blue Mountain coffee.

Cushioned, carpeted and curtained with greenery, Kanopi House's treehouses are set deep in the rainforest, flanked by 100-foot, vine-wrapped banyans. The hotel's philosophy is equally green - all the wood is sustainable, no trees were felled when Kanopi House was built, and local craftsmen and artists contributed to the design.

Country: Brazil
Location: Santa Catarina
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Rates: Low season, R$1,190-R$3,360; mid season, R$1,340-R$3,780; high season, R$1,490-R$4,200, including meals and soft drinks; excludes tax (three per cent and an extra R$4 a day).

Ponta dos Ganchos is a private paradise on a secluded stretch of Southern Brazil where sunsets sparkle and breakfast lasts all day. This relaxed rainforest retreat is on its own peninsula, fringed by tropical trees, choppy shores and oyster farms, with plenty to keep you busy - a games room, cinema and the only Christian Dior spa in South America.