8 hotels
Castles and country houses
Hotels set in castles, stately homes and mountain retreats, where the estate matters as much as the rooms.
Ashford Castle
A castle founded in 1228 on the shore of Lough Corrib, enlarged by the Guinness family, a hotel since 1939.
83 rooms
Cliveden House
Charles Barry’s 1851 country house above the Thames, once home of the Astors, now a hotel in a National Trust estate.
Schloss Elmau
A 1916 castle hotel in a Bavarian Alpine valley, host of the G7 summits of 2015 and 2022.
100 rooms · Events up to 300
Schlosshotel Kronberg
The castle Queen Victoria's eldest daughter built in 1889 to 1893 as her widow's seat, a hotel owned by the House of Hesse since 1954.
The Gleneagles Hotel
A 1924 railway hotel on 850 acres of Perthshire that hosted the 2005 G8 summit and the 2014 Ryder Cup on its own course.
205 rooms
Fairmont Le Château Montebello
A log château of 10,000 red cedar logs raised in four months in 1930 on the Ottawa River, host of the 1981 G7 summit.
Events up to 300
Villa d'Este
A cardinal's villa of 1568 on Lake Como, home of Caroline of Brunswick, a hotel since 1873 with a swimming pool floating on the lake.
151 rooms
Tivoli Palácio de Seteais
An eighteenth-century palace in Sintra with painted rooms attributed to Jean Pillement and a triumphal arch of 1802 between its two wings, a hotel since 1954.
30 rooms