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The tenth floor Penthouse, with 17 open steps up from the salon to a bedroom above, gives stunning views across Central Park. Any hotel guest can, however, feel above the frenetic buzz of the Big Apple as you have access to the members-only two-floor outdoor rooftop bar and lounge.
A bijou area of sunken garden between the hotel and busy Grosvenor Crescent has been turned into a highly popular outdoor lounge - and yes, you can smoke, even cigars (reserve your space, far ahead!). The entire hotel, in fact, oozes calm, despite its location right on Hyde Park Corner.
This is the first summer where you can 'eat three Michelin stars outside' (Chef Eric Fréchon gained the highest rating only this March). May through September, the restaurant is in the hotel's exquisite, oh-so-French garden. Work up your appetite by swimming, beforehand, in the unique rooftop trompe l'oeil -surround pool.
Newest baby in this noisy capital city, the Aman appears like a mughal fortress, in parts up to nine floors high. But all suites have private terrace-set pools, shielded by ceiling-high fretwork stone screens, and center of architect Kerry Hill's masterpiece is a giant all-green garden, with three tennis courts and a 150-foot sunken pool
Owner Christina Ong has waved her usual serene wand over a complex only 100 yards from sometimes chaotic South Sathorn Road. Relax by or in the outdoor Olympic-sized pool, and rejuvenate in the COMO Shambhala Urban Escape, which has ten treatment rooms, yoga and pilates facilities and an all-day Glow restaurant serving dishes designed for balance and calm.
You are in little-known Bridge Lane, five minutes' from Circular Quay and the Central Business District. But all the beautiful people flock to its integral dine complex, from Peter Doyle's stunning Est restaurant through to Tank nightclub and a calm indoor garden area. Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark first met Princess Mary here.
Just off the bustling Paseo de la Reforma, you enter the hotel's peaceful, football-field sized garden, with knee-high hedges flanking walkways between stunning flowers and stone sculptures by Hiroyuki Okumura. Around all four sides, the eight-floor hotel cleverly protects this calm.
