Ski destinations

Look at the lid of almost any tin of Swiss chocolates, and you’ll find a postcard-perfect village scene; the snow-sprinkled Alpine town of Adelboden could easily have posed for the picture.

Boutique hotels in Adelboden

Chamonix is the skier’s ski resort and it attracts dedicated Alpine thrill seekers year-round, just as it has done for centuries.

Boutique hotels in Chamonix

Courchevel has built a reputation as a high altitude, high living resort where the beautiful people come to see and be seen, yet every winter it’s the vastness of the Trois Vallées that steals the show.

Boutique hotels in Courchevel

You won’t be able to stop staring. This is some of the most eye-popping, jaw-dropping landscape in New Zealand.

Boutique hotels in Lake Taupo

With its notoriously creative approach to town planning, its masses of individual boutiques and galleries and the soulful music scene, Portland is no cookie-cutter city.

Boutique hotels in Portland

Set on the banks of Lake Wakatipu, postcard-perfect Queenstown boasts a striking setting beneath jagged mountain range The Remarkables, a pretty town centre and a rich menu of restaurants and bars.

Boutique hotels in Queenstown

The hushed, tranquil streets of Tignes Les Brévières are the perfect picture of traditional Alpine life but this charming village’s ski lift will whisk you up to a different world.

Boutique hotels in Tignes Les Brévières

The warm sun-soaked slopes of Verbier make for the perfect year-round resort and the nightlife in this part of the Swiss Alps is pretty hot stuff, too.

Boutique hotels in Verbier

Even seen on a computer screen, an eyeful of this serene Austrian lakeside resort makes you feel healthier.

Boutique hotels in Zell Am See