Where to Stay

Where to Stay in Lisbon

Where to Stay in Lisbon

Lovely Lisbon is super visitor friendly, with a holiday atmosphere in a compact, very walkable footprint. Lisbon makes it very easy for guests to enjoy themselves - even the public transport is charming! Lisbon’s central neighbourhoods are the best places for visitors to stay. While they all have their own character and plenty of visual variety, they’re all alike in being friendly and easily navigated.

Where to Stay in Brussels

Where to Stay in Brussels

Don’t let the presence of European administrators let you make the assumption that Brussels isn’t hip, happening and historic. This is a cool city, the largest in Belgium, and there’s plenty of choice when it comes to entertainment, and to accommodation. 

Where to Stay in Dallas

Where to Stay in Dallas

Our Hotel Gurus' guide to the neighbourhoods of Dallas, Texas is just what you need if you’re looking for accommodation to match your travel plans. Whether you want to follow in the footsteps of JFK, cowboys from days of yore, or contemporary designers or chefs, there’s a neighbourhood for you.

Where to stay in San Antonio

Where to stay in San Antonio

Our Hotel Guru’s guide to the neighbourhoods of San Antonio is just the help you need if you’re trying to match your interests with the perfect San Antonio centre. Whether you’re heading straight for the famous River Walk neighbourhood or historic Alamo Heights; looking for a great place to stay for a San Antonio family holiday; or you’re looking for somewhere a bit more outdoorsy...

Where to Stay in Austin

Where to Stay in Austin

Our neighbourhood guide to Austin reveals the varied pleasures of some of Austin’s most popular neighbourhoods for visitors to stay in.

Where to Stay in New Orleans

Where to Stay in New Orleans

A true convergence of European, Creole and African influences, New Orleans can be quickly summed up with the combined image of French elegance, Southern charm, jazz parties and terrific cuisine, and some neighbourhoods are more about one facet than the others.

Where to Stay in Philadelphia

Where to Stay in Philadelphia

Philadelphia’s artistic treasures are clustered around the city’s north-west neighbourhoods, including Logan Square and Fairmont - this is where you’ll find the Rodin Museum, the Museum of Art and the Benjamin Franklin Museum. Many of the city’s historic highlights can be found to the east of Downtown, around Old City and Ritterhouse Square. There are some hip and lively neighbourhoods in this area too - popular with Philadelphia’s university demographic.

Where to Stay in Nashville

Where to Stay in Nashville

There’s plenty of choice when it comes to accommodation for Nashville pilgrims, with different kinds popping up in different Nashville neighbourhoods. If you want to match your ideal Nashville experience with the right kind of neighbourhood start with our Guru’s guide to Nashville’s Neighbourhoods.

Where to stay in San Diego

Where to stay in San Diego

San Diego has a really fantastic array of accommodation — with something to match every kind of traveller, and while there are great places to stay all over the city, there are some neighbourhoods that will really suit particular travellers. Which is why we had our Hotel Gurus come up with where to stay in San Diego guide...

Where to Stay in Chicago

Where to Stay in Chicago

Our guide to where to stay in Chicago reveals the details of the most popular neighbourhoods for visitors to Chicago, offering useful tips and recommendation which we hope will help you match your travel plans to a neighbourhood’s atmosphere. Because the Windy City is a big city! and a city with cultural riches as diverse as the tastes of America, from the highest-brow to the lowest.

Where to Stay in Seattle

Where to Stay in Seattle

Seattle is known for being a collection of very different neighbourhoods, as much as a city, so our guide to the best neighbourhoods to stay in in Seattle is packed with useful tips about what you’ll find where, aimed at helping you choose where to stay in Seattle. Whether you’re here to gorge at Pike Place Market, see the sights of Capitol Hill or drink coffee in Fremont or Ballard, we can match you up.

Where to Stay in Boston

Where to Stay in Boston

The Hotel Guru guide to the best neighbourhoods in Boston for visitors is packed with useful tips and recommendations to help you choose where to stay in Boston for you, whether you’re here for Boston’s major historic sights, it’s elegant architecture, elegant culture, sporting buzz, great restaurants or live performances. Or, ideally, a combination of everything.

Where to Stay in San Francisco

Where to Stay in San Francisco

Our guide to the best neighbourhoods in San Francisco for visitors is full of tips and recommendations to help you pick the best place to stay in San Francisco for you. Whether you’re here for the classic sights, the history, the beautiful bay, the nightlife, the shopping, or a combination of everything!

Where to Stay in Los Angeles

Where to Stay in Los Angeles

While you probably recognise the names of a lot of Los Angeles’ neighbourhoods — Hollywood, Malibu, Beverly Hills and Venice Beach for example, don’t limit yourself to what you know, why not let us make some recommendations too? Our guide to where to stay in Los Angeles has tips and recommendations for some of the most popular neighbourhoods for visitors to stay in, and good ways of working out which ones will be the best match for the sort of L.A. adventure you have planned.

Where to Stay in Miami

Where to Stay in Miami

Miami, and Miami Beach, are sandwiched between the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean, so their neighbourhoods are pushed up against about 180kms of beach, but the city never spreads more than 35kms off the coast. So wherever you stay in Miami you’ll be close to the ocean. Beyond that Miami’s neighbourhoods are a really varied collection, and your choice of where to stay in Miami will have a huge impact on your visit. Our guide to Miami’s neighbourhoods has tips and recommendations to help you pick the one that best matches your plans.

Where to Stay in New York City

Where to Stay in New York City

The names of New York’s myriad of neighbourhoods might be familiar to you, but when it comes to choosing one to stay in the options can be overwhelming. Our guide to where to stay in New York City has tips and recommendations for some of the most popular neighbourhoods for visitors, from uptown to downtown and everywhere in between. Our aim is to help you match your plans with where to stay in New York City.

Where to Stay in Washington D.C.

Where to Stay in Washington D.C.

Washington is a showcase of sights and experiences, but where you stay in Washington D.C. will make a big difference to your visit. So use our detailed guide to the capital’s best neighbourhoods for visitors to find the perfect match for you, whether you’re here for the landmarks and the museums, or enjoy the bustle of this seat of power. Or a combination of both and more.

Where to Stay on Mykonos

Where to Stay on Mykonos

The Hotel Guru’s guide to where to stay on Mykonos will help you decide on the perfect base for your visit to this vision of Cycladic perfection. Whether you’re here to sample the charms of its vibrant traditions, find a stretch of azure and white coastline to call your own, or to enjoy the sights and sounds of glamorous, lively Mykonos Town in full swing. We’ve got a match between your ideal Mykonos holiday and a town or neighbourhood.

Where to Stay in Madrid

Where to Stay in Madrid

Madrid’s compact centre is a great place for visitors to stay, but there are numerous neighbourhoods within it, and it can be difficult to choose the one that will suit you best. Our detailed guide to Madrid’s neighbourhoods will give you an overview of what Madrid’s central neighbourhoods have to offer, and tips and recommendations to help you pick. Whether you want to stay right in the thick of the action, or find a quiet neighbourhood within walking distance of Madrid’s highlights.

Where to Stay in Milan

Where to Stay in Milan

Milan has a wonderful treasure trove of world class sights, and shoppers, foodies, art fans, and football, fashion and opera-lovers adore it, but it’s not a very touristy city, and working out which one of its neighbourhoods to stay in isn’t straight forward. Some neighbourhoods are rife with elegant, high concept design hotels, but they’re geared up for business travellers, which is what Milan is expecting a lot of, and you might not have the expense account for them? But use our detailed guide and we’re confident you’ll find the neighbourhood to suit your travel plans, and budget, perfectly!

Where to Stay in Vienna

Where to Stay in Vienna

We want you to use our detailed guide to Vienna’s neighbourhoods to help you find the perfect place to stay in Vienna for you. Because Vienna isn’t the easiest city to find the perfect accommodation in. But whether you’re visiting Vienna to follow in the footsteps of The Third Man, to admire the Art Nouveau art and architecture, to see the dancing horses, visit the opera house, experience the coffee-house culture, or just try authentic sacher tort, we can recommend a neighbourhood and hotel for you.

Where to Stay in Prague

Where to Stay in Prague

Our detailed guide to the best neighbourhoods in Prague is all about helping you decide where to stay in Prague. As well as practical tips about public transport and other facilities, we’ve included recommendations to help you match the style of your planned visit to the atmosphere of Prague’s different neighbourhoods. Whatever reason you’re visiting we have a recommended neighbourhood for you.

Where to Stay in Berlin

Where to Stay in Berlin

Our detailed guide to Berlin’s neighbourhoods is designed to answer the question “Where should I stay in Berlin?” We’ve included lots of details about the most popular neighbourhoods for visitors, the ones with the most impressive landmarks, the best accommodation, or the best restaurants and bars, or best transport links. We’ve got recommendations for visitors looking for great value, a romantic bolthole, or a neighbourhood to suit their family.

Where to Stay in Kraków

Where to Stay in Kraków

Kraków is an ancient city, but one that has seen many periods of regeneration, so while some of its neighbourhoods are rich in history and pomp and ceremony and architecture, some are stylish with art nouveau design, and some are being regenerated right now! So choosing where to stay in Kraków isn’t just about staying as close as you can to the main sights. The Hotel Guru’s detailed guide is here to help, with practical tips and recommendations that will help you match your plans to the right neighbourhood.

Where to Stay in Barcelona

Where to Stay in Barcelona

Barcelona is a sultry beauty like no other, thanks to her lovers, a collection of famed artists architecture and chefs, but her many neighbourhoods are varied, so she poses a challenge: where to stay in Barcelona? Our detailed guide to Barcelona’s neighbourhoods is designed to help you answer that question, allowing you to pick out the neighbourhood that’s the best match to your plans for visiting Barcelona. Whether you’re planned a tour of the highlights compete with paper and pencils, you’re intending to eat your way across the city, or just meander around and see what you uncover.

Where to Stay in Venice

Where to Stay in Venice

Our detailed guide to Venice’s neighbourhoods is full of tips to help you work out which one is perfect for the trip you’re planning, whether you’re here for a romantic escape, to marvel at the sights, to live very well, to write a novel, or just to lose yourself in the wonder of a city of marble palaces built on a lagoon… Or a combination, the Hotel Gurus can recommend a neighbourhood to you.

Where to Stay in Dublin

Where to Stay in Dublin

Our detailed guide to Dublin’s best neighbourhoods is full of useful details about some of the best places to stay in Dublin, aimed at helping you choose the best part of Dublin to stay in, whether you’re visiting Dublin to see her historic sights, and beautifully mismatched architecture, or to experience her live music scene, or her cuisine, and her wonderfully warming pub atmosphere

Where to Stay in the Peak District

Where to Stay in the Peak District

Our guide to where to stay in the Peak District offers a run down of some of the best, and most popular places to stay in the Peak District, with useful details, and recommendations that we think will help you choose the perfect base for your Peak District adventure.

Where to Stay on Santorini

Where to Stay on Santorini

The Hotel Guru’s guide to where to stay on Santorini has practical advice and recommendations about Santorini’s main towns and centres — just what you need to help you decide which one will be the perfect base for your visit to this spectacular island. Whether you’re here to admire the unique white, cubist architecture, soak up the sunsets across the caldera, spend time on black and white beaches, visit her wineries, archaeological treasures, or buzzing tavernas, or a combination of all of this and more, there will be some towns and centres offering you more than others. Plus they’re all so beautiful it’s difficult to choose on photos alone…

Where to stay in Copenhagen

Where to stay in Copenhagen

Our detailed guide to the best neighbourhoods in Copenhagen is just what you need to help you plan your visit. We’ve got great neighbourhood recommendations that you can match to your own holiday, whether you’re here to admire Copenhagen’s art and design, to marvel at its maritime history, to sample Scandi cuisine, to revel in its nightlife, or to see the sights of this beautiful and unique city. Copenhagen is a big city, but with a relatively small footprint, so it has quite a number of very central neighbourhoods, with quite a bit of variety between them.

Where to Stay in Amsterdam

Where to Stay in Amsterdam

Our guide to Amsterdam’s best neighbourhoods is just what you need to help you plan your visit to Amsterdam. We have great recommendations, whether you’re here to explore this artistic city’s history, its architecture, its markets, its cuisine, its museums, or if you’re just here to kick back and enjoy yourself. We think the best city breaks are those where you match the atmosphere of the neighbourhood you stay in with the kind of trip you’re planning.

Where to Stay on Bali

Where to Stay on Bali

Our where to stay on Bali guide is ideal for helping you decide which of Bali’s towns and centres make the perfect bases for your stay on this daydream of an island. We’ve included detailed information about the most popular centres, plus practical recommendations. Our aim being to help you choose, whether you’re coming to Bali to surf or dive all day and party all night; or to relax on an idyllic stretch of sand; to lose yourself in the jungle, or the culture, or if you want to do a bit of everything!

Where to Stay in Athens

Where to Stay in Athens

The Hotel Guru’s guide to the best neighbourhoods in Athens has tips and information to help you decide where to stay in Athens, whether you’re visiting this incredible city for its 5th century temples, and unrivalled historic treasures, or for its contemporary art, culture and vibrant, sunny lifestyle. Whichever of Athens’s neighbourhoods you decide is perfect for your visit, you’ll find a lot of life lived outdoors, in the narrow streets with their geranium-filled window boxes, or in the leafy squares.

Where to Stay in Istanbul

Where to Stay in Istanbul

Our guide to the best neighbourhoods in Istanbul has tips and information that will help you decide which of Istanbul’s 39 districts will suit you best. Whether you’re here to see this city’s incredible landmarks, or its museums, or to see the legacy of its incredible past, or just to enjoy contemporary Istanbul with its markets and cuisine and cosmopolitan atmosphere, or do as much of both as you can!

Where to Stay on Malta

Where to Stay on Malta

The Hotel Guru’s guide to where to stay on Malta is ideal for helping you decide where to base your stay on this incredible, and incredibly varied island. With detailed information about key towns, centres and neighbourhoods, plus practical recommendations, it will help you find the right base, whether you’re here to visit all the Crusader forts, to be charmed by the island’s history, to dive off Gozo, or to do, and see, as much as you can!

Where to Stay in Paris

Where to Stay in Paris

Discover the best neighbourhoods to stay in in Paris using the Hotel Guru’s detailed guide. We’ll help you find the right part of Paris to stay in whether you’re here to appreciate her elegant sights, to enjoy the museums, to explore her streets, to experience the nightlife, do some shopping, or just soak up the unmistakable, incomparable atmosphere.

Where to Stay in Kent

Where to Stay in Kent

Charming Kent, regularly called the ‘Garden of England’, is a popular destination, loved for its coastlines as much as its lush fields and forests, its historic towns and centres, and iconic, chimney-shaped oast houses. And whatever your reason for visiting, the Hotel Guru’s guide to Kent’s towns and centres will help you find the right base for your Kent trip.

Where to Stay in Glasgow

Where to Stay in Glasgow

Glasgow is a powerhouse of a city, with an incredible history, an impressive collection of art and architecture, and arguably the UK’s best shopping and nightlife outside of London. And it offers easy access to Scotland’s highlands and islands. But while it’s obviously an excellent place to visit, Glasgow’s neighbourhoods are really varied, so use the Hotel Guru’s Glasgow guide to help you find the ideal Glasgow neighbourhood to stay in.

Where to Stay in West Sussex

Where to Stay in West Sussex

The Hotel Guru's guide to West Sussex will help you find the ideal part of West Sussex for your stay, whether you’re here for the horse or motor racing at Goodwood, the polo at Cowdray Park, the Roman Villa at Fishbourne, the Bluebell Railway or the surrounding bluebell woods, the stunning South Downs, or just out for a stroll in the beautiful countryside followed by an excellent ale in a country pub. West Sussex offers both excitement and relaxation, a chance to see something new, or to enjoy life’s simple pleasures. And it’s the perfect place to do a bit of both.

Where to Stay in Suffolk

Where to Stay in Suffolk

The Hotel Guru’s Suffolk guide will help you find the perfect part of Suffolk to stay in, whatever reason you have for visiting this picturesque and gently charming part of England. We love Bury St Edmunds with its historic buildings, the races at Newmarket, Lowestoft for its beautiful sandy bay, pretty Aldeburgh and Southwold, and the incredible Broads, shared with Norfolk. But there’s a lot more to Suffolk besides.

Where to Stay in Derbyshire

Where to Stay in Derbyshire

Our guide to where to stay in Derbyshire aims to help you uncover the best towns or centres in Derbyshire for your ideal visit. Whether you’re here to walk the Pennine Way, or the Derwent Valley; or hike, bike, cave or climb in the Peak District; or visit one of the incredible local halls, manors or abbeys; or to just relax in one of Derbyshire’s market or spa towns, like Ashbourne or Buxton, we’ll help you find the perfect place to stay. Or the perfect combination of towns and centres to stay in.

Where to Stay in Berkshire

Where to Stay in Berkshire

Our guide to where to stay in Berkshire is designed to help you uncover the best towns, centres and neighbourhoods in Berkshire for you. We’ll help you find the right area to stay in, whether you’re here for a horse race, to dine in Michelin starred restaurants, to visit castles and historic sites, to explore a green and pleasant part of the UK with your family, or just to relax on the river. And most especially if you’re here to do a combination of the above!

Where to Stay in Dubai

Where to Stay in Dubai

Discover the best neighbourhood to base yourself in Dubai, whether you’re here for the paradise of beaches, the world-class shopping, the desert and the souqs, the cuisine? or to explore this incredible Emirate and its history. Our detailed guide has recommendations for the best neighbourhood for families, explorers, shoppers, couples, and combinations of all of the above and more!

Where to Stay in Rome

Where to Stay in Rome

Discover the best neighbourhoods in Rome to stay in, whether you're here to see the ancient sights, or the modern ones, to eat and drink well, to shop well, or just experience la bella vita of Rome.

Where to Stay on the Isle of Wight

Where to Stay on the Isle of Wight

This detailed guide is designed to uncover the best towns and resorts on the Isle of Wight, whether you’re here to sail, to relax on the beach, to explore and see the sights, for a romantic break, a family holiday and more!

Where to Stay in London

Where to Stay in London

Discover the best neighbourhoods in London. In our detailed guide we’ll help you find the right area, whether you're here to enjoy the museums? the landmarks, the shopping, the nightlife, live theatre, to explore this great city with your family, or if you're here for a wonderful combination of everything!

Where to stay in Edinburgh

Where to stay in Edinburgh

Discover the best neighbourhoods in Edinburgh. In our detailed guide we’ll help you find the right area, whether it’s to enjoy the nightlife, landmarks, live music, family attractions and more!