Hotels In Carolina|"Most Luxurious Hotels In The World"

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Of the most luxurious, eye-poppingly expensive hotels in the world, most are from Africa and none are from the US. That’s according to a survey released this week out of luxury-hotels.com, which came up with a ranking of the most luxurious hotels in the world after looking at the lowest average rates available. According to those criteria, the private island sanctuary of North Island Lodge in the Seychelles is the most world’s most extravagant.

Part of what makes the resort so expensive could be due to the fact that guests are helicoptered into the site, which sits 30 km off the coast of the main island of Mahé. The survey was conducted in June and July and is based on double occupancy for the month of August. Resorts surveyed had a minimum 20-guest capacity. With 11 guest villas at North Island, the private paradise is also described as a modern-day ‘Noah’s Ark’ for a massive conservation program which aims to protect and rehabilitate local flora, fauna and wildlife like the Hawksbill and green turtles and Seychelles blue pigeons.

Luxury villas meanwhile, are built using scavenged, natural materials from the surrounding area and invite guests to lounge in “barefoot luxury.” Photos show white sand beaches leading into azure waters, palm tree-fringed villas decorated in sumptuous yet natural materials like stone, recovered wood and wicker furnishings. The most luxurious hotels list is dominated by resorts and lodgings in Africa, remote islands and destinations in Oceania, and a handful of listings in Italy, France and Canada. A hotel in Bhutan—the Amankora—also made the cut.

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