Where the Outdoors Is the Main Attraction
Some hotels are really just the starting point for everything outside. Nature brings together places surrounded by forests, jungle, desert, rivers and wide-open landscapes—made for hiking, cycling, kayaking, wildlife watching or simply getting your shoes muddy. Sometimes it’s adventurous, sometimes wonderfully slow. These are hotels where nature isn’t something admired through the bedroom window, but something you’re meant to get out and experience.
Galery69 is a lakeside design boutique hotel located in Poland’s Masuria region.
read moreThe soft sloping hills of Breitenbach, in the Alsace, France is an unusual place to find these stunning Scandinavian, minimalist “huts” of Hotel 48° Nord.
read moreThe Arctic Bath hotel and spa floats atop the Lule river during summer and freezes into place come winter. Located in Swedish Lapland, its star attraction is the bath which sits in the centre of a stunning circular complex. Guests can take an icy dip in the four-degree water and then retire to their own toasty cabin for the night.
read moreA village abandoned for over seventy years, Villa Pedra Natural Houses today is an unusual boutique hotel of restored former village houses. The owners discovered the village of Aldeia de Cima some years ago and was taken by its beauty, deciding to give it a new lease on life for future generations. Carefully respecting the spirit of the region, old construction techniques were used to recover the blocks walls covered with ochre and lime to preserve the aesthetic and ecological basis, ensuring absolute comfort all year long.
read moreCompanhia das Culturas is a working family farm (olives, quince, oranges, figs) of forty acres in the Eastern Algarve, amidst gently rolling hills and miles of white sandy beaches. The owners, a writer and an anthropologist turned a part of the farm into a atmospheric and stylish b&b. There is a lush garden with swimming pool and bikes are available to discover the surroundings and magnificent beaches.
read moreCowley Manor Experimental - Cotswolds, England Where English country-house heritage meets Parisian playfulness. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● A 19th-century Italianate manor reinvented by Experimental Group, with Dorothée Meilichzon bringing her unmistakable mix of colour, pattern and playful sophistication to the English countryside. ● Subtle Alice in Wonderland references run through the interiors, from…
read moreOctant Hotels Furnas, Furnas, São Miguel, Azores A geothermal retreat where volcanic landscape, thermal water, and contemporary design converge in the lush Furnas crater Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Built around the former Furnas Thermal Center, the hotel turns São Miguel’s geothermal landscape into part of the architecture rather than simply a wellness theme.…
read morePedras Salgadas Spa & Nature Park offers ecological self-catering bungalows with sleek minimalistic design featuring sustainable strategies and local materials, such as slate and wood. The hotel is located within a national park.
read moreWanås Restaurant Hotel – Knislinge, Skåne, Sweden An 18th-century estate where contemporary art, organic farming and quietly beautiful Nordic design become one experience. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● An intimate 11-room hotel surrounded by the Wanås Foundation sculpture park, where works by artists including Yoko Ono, Jenny Holzer and Ann Hamilton turn the surrounding…
read moreA unique piece of architecture, Hotel Ješt?d is part of the television tower built in the second half of the 1960s on top of the 1.012 metre high Ješt?d mountain, overlooking Bohemia, Poland and Germany. Designed by architect K. Hubacek, the shape was chosen as it extends the silhouette of the hill and moreover resists the extreme climate conditions on the top of the hill.
read moreThe Society Hotel Hood River | Bingen, Washington | USA A 1930s schoolhouse reborn as a social, design-led basecamp in the Columbia River Gorge. Why DNA Hotels Loves It ● Waechter Architecture and Blossom Design retained the school’s original character while turning it into an unusually stylish mix of hotel, hostel and wellness retreat. ●…
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