Ask the Arbiter: Favorite Hotel Stay of 2025

Ask the Arbiter: our advisor picks for favorite hotel stay of 2025

Team Arbiter has spoken: these were our Favorite Hotel Stays of 2025.

In Ask The Arbiter, we open up our team’s little black book and weigh in on the travel topics that matter most. As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back on the hotel stays that defined our 2025. As a team, we checked into more properties than we can reasonably count — yet each of us can name the one that rose above the rest.

Favorite Hotel Stay of 2025?

Eden Rock - St Barths

Six Senses Punakha

The Gleneagles Hotel

Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc

The Beverly Hills Hotel

Hotel Casa Monti Roma

Aman Venice

Lone Mountain Ranch

Lauren Tulp Cichocki's favorite hotel stay of 2025: Eden Rock - St Barths
Caitlin Johnson's favorite hotel stay of 2025: Six Senses Punakha, Bhutan
Brooke Brackett's favorite hotel stay of 2025: The Beverly Hills Hotel
Grace Foley Hocter's favorite hotel stay of 2025: Hotel Casa Monti Roma
Ally Pollema's favorite hotel stay of 2025: The Gleneagles Hotel
Olivia Kushner's favorite hotel stay of 2025: Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Beth Callahan's favorite hotel stay of 2025: Aman Venice
Devyn Whitehead's favorite hotel stay of 2025: Lone Mountain Ranch

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