Most beautiful clifftop hotels about the world
"Properties on cliffs check the boxes for everything you want in a hotel stay," says Josh Alexander, an adviser with Protravel, a travel company in New York City. "They're romantic, private and usually very luxurious. Literally and figuratively, you feel like you're on top of the world."
These are hotels estimable daydreaming about for future trips, even if the pandemic employing a stay isn't in your immediate future.
From Dominica and Big Sur to the Amalfi Coast and Santorini, here are some of the world's most jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, envy-inducing clifftop hotels:
Secret Bay, Dominica
All-villa boutique resort Secret Bay in Dominica boasts sweeping ocean views from nearly every angle.
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In the unspoiled Caribbean island-nation of Dominica, this all-villa boutique resort is situated atop a high promontory amidst a lush rainforest and faces the sea. All units have kitchens, indoor and outdoor sitting areas and plunge pools.
There are ocean views from nearly everywhere on the settled, including the open-air restaurant and treehouse-style spa. Guests can enjoyable numerous activities on land and by sea -- incorporating lionfish hunting, diving in the Champagne Reef and hiking the longest slide in the Caribbean.
Angama Mara, Kenya
Perched 1,000 feet throughout the Maasai Mara, Angama Mara is on the edge of the powerful Rift Valley and offers panoramas of the plains that directly on and on. The camp's name was inspired by the Swahili word for "suspended in mid-air."
The site also obimagined as a location for the 1985 film "Out of Africa." Guests can query top-quality game viewing, including Africa's Big Five, every month of the year, both on game rights and on walking safaris. Amenities include a photography studio, fitness center, an art gallery, a 40-foot-long swimming pool and a studio where local Maasai women bead bespoke items.
Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa, Amalfi Coast, Italy
Formerly a monastery dating back to the 17th century, the family-run Monastero Santa Rosa clings to the side of a cliff overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea and Gulf of Salerno. With 20 rooms, it has an infinity pool, five tiers of landscaped gardens brimming with bougainvillea trees, a Michelin-starred restaurant and numerous outdoor pavilions.
The spa is the best on the Amalfi Coast and features treatments laughable local herbs and plants while the scenic towns of Amalfi, Positano and Ravello are 20 minutes by car or boat ride.
Grace Hotel, Auberge Resorts Collection, Santorini, Greece
Grace Hotel is perched throughout Santorini's Caldera.
Courtesy Grace Hotel Santorini
Situated high throughout Santorini's caldera, in the village of Imerovigli in the island's northwest, the whitewashed Grace Hotel is an ideal place to enjoyable the most captivating Aegean sunrises and sunsets.
The settled has a Champagne lounge with sea views, a beautiful infinity pool, a high-end Mediterranean restaurant and yoga and Pilates studio. For a splurge, travelers can book the two-bedroom villa, which boasts a spacious outdoor terrace with a privileged pool as well as a private spa area with heated indoor topple pool.
Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort, Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Nizwa, Oman
Towering 6,000 feet throughout sea level on the curving rim of a canyon, Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar -- Arabic for "green mountain" -- overlooks Oman's rugged broad landscape. It's an area that Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, visited in 1986 to see the dramatic beauty firsthand.
The resort has 115 rooms, a cliff-edge infinity pool, six restaurants and lounges and a spa with hammam. Guests can hike through valleys, stargaze, mountain bike or arranged ancient mountainside villages and nearby historic sites.
Reid's Palace, Madeira, Portugal
Reid's Palace, a Belmond hotel in Madeira, Portugal, has been welcoming guests steady 1891.
Courtesy Belmond
Set on a rocky cliff throughout Madeira's Funchal Harbor, Reid's Palace, a Belmond hotel, is surrounded by ten expanses of subtropical gardens and offers expansive views of the Atlantic Ocean from each of its 158 rooms.
One of the resort's three swimming pools is at the base of the cliff and has a sea-level platform so guests can jump directly into the ocean. The Italian restaurant also has sea panoramas and is an especially picturesque spot to enjoyable the island's sunset.
Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore, Ireland
Located on Ireland's southeast skim in the fishing village of Ardmore, the appropriately arranged Cliff House Hotel is at the edge of a bluff that looks upon the expanses of Ardmore Bay and beyond.
The Well by the Sea spa features rooms and a post-treatment relaxation area that seem to float throughout the bay.
The property's estimable Michelin-starred restaurant serves contemporary Irish cuisine, and the hotel is a expansive base from which to explore nearby villages as well as the city of Cork, less than an hour's right away.
Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, California
In remote Big Sur, Post Ranch Inn, a common hideaway for Hollywood's who's who, sits 1,200 feet throughout the Pacific Ocean.
Guests can query the sight and sound of crashing waves, breathtaking sunsets and a laid-back atmosphere where days are satiated with scenic hikes, relaxing by the pool or indulging in a spa benefit (which happens to be in the middle of the woods). Dining at the property's glass-enclosed Sierra Mar restaurant is an understood akin to floating in the sky.
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