The 50 Greatest Luxury Hotel Suites in the World
Robb Report has compiled a select guide to the very best suites—from penthouses to train carriages—available now throughout the world.
Robb Report is the ultimate arbiter of quality in luxury. We’re picky, perfectionistic, and painstaking in what we recommend, whether it’s our annual Best of the Best awards or the power players in fine dining. This new list is no different: It intends to offer an opinionated, informed, and incisive guide to the best suites—from penthouses to train carriages—available now throughout the world. If you want to travel, and demand only the best, these are the 50 rooms you should insist on.
In this survey, we relied on the same team of insiders as we did for our inaugural list of the 50 greatest luxury hotels in the world: our Travel Masters. There are countless travel specialists in the world, purporting to design trips for the ultimate luxury insiders, but only a handful—20, to be exact—who truly offer unparalleled access and expertise. These Travel Masters are the world’s most canny and connected travel facilitators, a brain trust of five-star know-how with first-hand expertise in seeing (and sleeping in) the world’s greatest suites.
It was an obvious solution, then, to factor in their experience when compiling this list. No one is better placed to call out showstoppers rather than heavily hyped crash pads, to identify the genuinely exclusive versus the simply expensive. We asked each of them for up to 10 suites that they have seen and book regularly for their discerning clientele and used these nominations as the basis for our rankings.
It’s not surprising, of course, that many of their nominations overlapped, and the hotels that had top suites recommended by more than one—in some cases, up to four—Travel Master earned spots at the top of the list. Other than our top 10, we’ve ranked the rest geographically for ease of use.
This may be our first round-up of the Greatest Suites in the World but it won’t be our last. Indeed, as we update this select list, we’re keen to ensure that some overlooked spots make a splash next time. In Europe, for example, Italy has proven a dominant force, but there’s no entry from Greece, and China’s best rooms didn’t make the cut at all. The luxury lodge products touted by Australia and New Zealand have proven impactful, earning multiple slots in our top 50, as have India’s palatial hotels. Many major cities go unrepresented, though: Miami, for one, and Los Angeles, too—indeed, America’s entries in the top 50 are surprisingly scant. Yet with so many new five-star properties in the pipeline for 2024, the next iteration of this list will hopefully remedy some of that unevenness. Hoteliers, we’re looking at you.
