The best places to stay in Florence

From an artistic retreat to a sculptor’s workshop-turned-palazzo: beds for all palates and pockets

• Get a room in... Florence

8 Paris hotels extraordinaire

A taste for the quirky and unusual? How about an outrageous Gothic beauty or a barge on the Seine?

• Three Paris hotels for romance

Madrid's best hotels

A modernised Gran Via masterpiece, a stately home from home, a sexy budget design hotel and more

• Sawday's pick of Spain's hotels

The pride of Portugal's pousadas

There are 40 of the historic hotels - on a flying visit to Lisbon, Chris McCooey visited three of the best

• The six best pousadas in Portugal

Dublin's best hotels

A design hotel with a saucy side, a guesthouse with a crackling grate and a restored grande dame

• Chic places to stay in Wales

20 top European hotels

Under thumbscrews, writers at The Sunday Times reveal the hotels they didn’t want you to know about

• Europe's coolest hotels

• Europe's high mountain hotels

Britain's 10 best country houses to rent

Want to throw a grown-up country-house party, but don’t have a grown-up country house? No problem, says Stanley Stewart

Britain's busiest holiday cottage?

Why is the Pavilion on the Isle of Wight booked for two years? + 10 new historic places to rent in 2008

• Britain's 20 best holiday cottages

10 British hotels with great chefs

Rufus Purdy, editor of the Mr & Mrs Smith guides, picks ten hotels in Britain that offer fabulous cuisine

• Real Food Pioneer: Carlo Petrini

• Top 10 ways to forage for free food

Britain’s top 10 hotels

The Good Hotel Guide reveals its favourite for 2008: we stay a night in all 10 under cover

• Britain's hip hotels

• Britain's best green hotels

Britain's 18 best family-friendly hotels

Where can you find a hotel where other children are positively welcomed? We've a guide to 18 of the best

• Britain's best dog-friendly hotels

The top 10 B&Bs in England

The Sunday Times sent its ruthless hotel inspector, Walter F Stowy, to see if B&Bs are up to scratch

• Six green British B&Bs

• The best B&Bs for gardeners

12 top jungle treehouses

From Sweden to South Africa, we round up a dozen of the best hotel treehouses on earth

• The 8 best eco lodges in Costa Rica

The world's 20 best hotels on a budget

Gorgeous places to stay, stylish service, stunning views, epic bedrooms - without breaking the bank

• Luxury hotels: no need to splash out