Our travel team’s favourite hotels of 2024: the best stays from Bali to Georgia

Once a publishing house, the brutalist building on Merab Kostava, now known as Stamba has fast become one of my favourite hotels, not only in Georgia but in the entire world. Centering around a leafy courtyard complete with a defunct electrical pylon, the 64 bedrooms are expansive and well-designed, with gorgeous antique parquet flooring, high ceilings, and unique works of art by local Georgian artists. But the hotel also plays host to a quirky café complete with mint green and pale pink decor, elaborate chandeliers and vases of fresh daisies on every table. Plus, there’s a chocolaterie, funky outdoor amphitheater and a set of amazing micro ‘space farms’ where the hotel grows its very own leafy greens, edible flowers, and miniature vegetables on site, too. stambahotel.com