This Hotel Has Been Voted The Best In The World

Yesterday we showed you the most sought after Airbnb listing in the world (HERE), and that is one hell of a treehouse.

If you want to come out tops in terms of the world’s best hotel, though, you’re going to need to achieve near perfection.

Enter Indonesia’s Nihi Sumba, voted the best in the world by the readers of Travel + Leisure, scoring a whopping 99.12 out of a possible 100.

The evaluation is based on facilities, location, service, food, and overall value, so let’s see what sets this gem apart from the rest.

Located an hour’s plane ride from Bali, the hotel consists of 33 villas set on 560 acres, which means guests enjoy a great deal of privacy. Then there are all the activities at your beachfront doorstep – surfing, snorkelling, spearfishing, yoga, horseback riding, and hiking, for example.

Travel + Leisure can take it from here – we’ll start with the pictures:

A more in-depth review of the hotel from a 2014 piece:

Guest villas allude to traditional Sumbanese homes, with steeply pitched thatched roofs and massive kasambi tree trunks for support columns. Sumbanese ikat tapestries and black-and-white photos of local villagers hang on ocher [sic] stone walls. Wide-angle windows overlook lush gardens and the sea beyond.

Local touches show up everywhere: bathroom sinks are hewn from slabs of roughly carved stone; wardrobes are fashioned from coconut wood. The space is natural where you want it to be, sleek where you need it—as in the seamless glide of sliding glass doors; the light switches that glow in the unfamiliar dark; or the straw paddle fan that swirls inside, not outside, your monumental canopy bed. Most striking of the new villas: the Kanatar Sumba Houses, where an outdoor shower is magically cantilevered off the second floor. All the other outdoor showers went home and cried.

Take that, crummy outdoor showers.

Added bonus – apparently there aren’t large groups of Ozzie or British blokes on a lad’s holiday, getting tattoos they will one day regret and lusting after anything with a pulse.

[source:travel&leisure]