The cheapest Leading Hotels of the World can be found across Europe, Asia, and America. The cheapest rates are often due to low season reductions and do not relate to the level of luxury of the hotel. Read on to learn more about each of these hotels and when they are cheap.
Leading Hotels of the World hotels tend to be individually owned hotels rather than big brand hotels like the best Four Seasons, the best Park Hyatt, or the best Ritz-Carlton hotels.
There are more than 400 Leading Hotels of the World hotels and resorts in over 80 countries. Some of our favorite hotels are part of Leading Hotels of the World, and we outline the cheapest time to visit the best Leading Hotels of the World below.
Interestingly, the cheapest Leading Hotels of the World can also be the most expensive Leading Hotels of the World. You just have to pick a stay out-of-season.
Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) have their own loyalty club, so if you book a Leading hotel on their website, you will collect points. We have reviewed how much a leaders club point is worth in detail, but as a rule of thumb, each point is worth around $0.08 USD.
This sounds great, but bear in mind that the benefits you get if you book via LHW, do not include a $100 USD resort credit anymore. This perk was recently removed. If you book via our luxury travel concierge, you will get $100 USD hotel credit on top of virtually the same benefits that you would get by booking on Leading Hotels of the World.
The benefits we can share at Leading Hotels of the World hotels include a $100 USD hotel credit, breakfast for two, welcome amenities, and prioritized room upgrades. Contact our luxury travel concierge for an even better deal.
1. Hotel Royal-Riviera
Hotel Royal-Riviera is a whymsical dream on the French Cote D’Azur. If you imagine the perfect French beach hotel, this is it.
Hotel Royal-Riviera is bathed in sunshine with an outdoor terrace for breakfast, glorious gardens, an azure blue pool, and a beach just steps away. At the start and the end of the season, you can grab a really cheap deal here when compared to the summer prices, which usually start at thousands of Euros.
In March, early April, and late October, you can grab a room for around €500 EUR, less than half the summer price, but bear in mind the weather can be hit-and-miss at this time of the year. At this price, we don’t care!
2. Puente Romano Beach Resort
Puente Romano Beach Resort in Marbella is designed like a Spanish village with whitewashed houses and gardens that resemble a tropical jungle with a river running through them. The beachfront pools come complete with a little bridge, and there are decked areas with loungers.
The setting is absolutely beautiful, and palms sway above the pools, offering dots of shade, and beyond this, the hotel has a beach, too.
In the summer, this hotel is expensive (although not as pricy as the Marbella Club next door). In the winter, prices come right down. Visit in November, early December, January through to March, and you can stay in style for less.
Usually, even in the winter, it’s sunny and beautiful in the South of Spain.
3. Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo is a favorite of ours, and this exquisite Belle Epoche hotel based in the heart of Monte-Carlo with views spanning from one side of the main harbor to the other.
We love the stunning historical and light foyer, the glamorous breakfast on a mezzanine balcony overlooking one of the hotel’s foyers, and the general French chic offered by this hotel.
The Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo is never cheap, but prices are much lower in November, early December, January, February, and March. Sunday nights sometimes have special offers, and if you are lucky, you can grab a 4 nights for the price of 3 or 3 nights for the price of two deals.
You will still be paying close to €500 EUR per night, but trust me, this gamorous hotel is worth every penny.
4. The Datai Langkawi
The Datai Langkawi is a stunning hotel in Langkawi. Asia tends to be a cheaper destination than Europe, and Langkawi is cheap, although it’s worth bearing in mind that this is one of the best and most expensive hotels in Langkawi. Book any time of the year, and the chances you will be paying less than you would elsewhere in the world for a hotel of this caliber.
5. Marbella Club Hotel
The Marbella Club Hotel is one of the best luxury hotels in Spain and sits right on the beach. It is more expensive than its neighbor, Puente Romano Beach Resort, but in November, early December, and January through to March, this hotel is so much cheaper than its summer rates they are almost giving the rooms away.
This hotel basks in more than 300 days of sunshine a year and enjoys the rare European micro-climate that enables short sleeves in the winter and outdoor swimming and sunbathing around the pool from March to November. So even if you book out of season, the chances are that you can enjoy glorious sunshine.
Drive through the pantheon-style arch at the entrance to this iconic hotel, and you drive into a slice of tropical beach-side paradise on the Marbella coastline.
6. San Clemente Palace Kempinski
San Clemente Palace Kempinski has one of the best hotel pools in Venice and is definitely one of the best Kempinski hotels in the world. This Kempinski is also a member of Leading Hotels of the World, even though most Kempinski hotels aren’t.
This is a really special hotel set on its own private island with wonderful gardens that you can stroll around and its own teak shuttle boat. The bar here spills out onto a historic cobblestone square that is perfectly positioned for the Venice sunset.
The pool here is large and surrounded by lawns and loungers. There is also a fun poolside bar and restaurant hidden in the greenery on this island. While the San Clemente Palace Kempinski is the best Leading Hotel in Venice, we think the Aman Venice and Belmond Hotel Cipriani are the two best hotels in Venice.
As for a cheap time to visit, stay out of season. You may be blessed with wonderful weather out of season, but Venice can be misty, cold, and grey in the winter. The prices are lower if you can pick a moment without any events. Grab a scarf and enjoy the waterways.
7. Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
Kulm Hotel St. Moritz is a historic ski hotel right in the heart of St. Moritz and conveniently located up the mountain from the main St. Moritz railway station. This classy hotel has a huge and exclusive spa with a gorgeous indoor and outdoor pool perched on the side of the mountain, numerous restaurants, and wonderful rooms.
The hotel celebrates its heritage at every corner with historic pictures of the old British Aristocracy who used to ski there 100 years ago and who put St. Moritz on the map.
The views here are astonishing, particularly from the rooms, where they span the breadth of the valley and look out over the lake and across to the mountain on the other side.
The rooms here are stunning and beautifully decorated with modern furnishings and stunning five-star bathrooms. The beds combined with the mountain air give a brilliant night’s sleep, and you’re right on the doorstep of the main ski lifts, the pretty village center, toboggan runs, and gold and tennis.
As for a cheaper time to visit here, try the summer. You will feel like Heidi walking up the mountains and can happily avoid the winter ski prices when this resort is the most popular.
8. Grand Resort Bad Ragaz
Grand Resort Bad Ragaz is a prestigious and world-class thermal resort. We visited the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz as part of a grand tour around this part of Switzerland where we also visited the Grand Hotel Des Bains Kempinski St. Moritz and Grand Hotel Kronenhof in Pontresina which are also both wonderful hotels.
Grand Resort Bad Ragaz is set in the famous spa town of Bad Ragaz and around a 5-minute shuttle from the station, which has brilliant connections to just about anywhere in Switzerland, including a direct train service to Zurich’s main station, so it is easy to get to if you fly into Zurich airport for a weekend break, or you could combine a stay here with one of the best luxury hotels in Zurich.
The spa here is a Narnia of pools. The main child-free mineral-enriched spa pool is gorgeously warm and palatial, with pillars encircling this relaxing pool. There is a relatively shallow lap pool behind this pool, and beyond these two pools, there are two kids’ pools hidden in a cave-like area with a particularly good infant play area complete with a little ones slide. There is a beautiful outdoor pool surrounded by loungers and set in the lawns that offers a great place to relax if you’re blessed with good weather.
Beyond the pools, you can walk around the park, play on the two golf courses or in the Casino, shop in the luxury mall that can be found above the kid’s spa pool, or play tennis. The main challenge here is to choose what to do.
Book in the winter and spring, February to April, and you can snag a cheap rate at under 500 Swiss Francs per night.
9. Althoff Villa Belrose
Like the other hotels we have included in the South of France, book Althoff Villa Belrose at the start and the end of the summer season for the best prices.
This hotel has some of the best views you will find on the Cote D’Azur. The hotel, pool, and rooms are set up on the side of a hill, so when you sit out on the terrace, you have views from one edge of the bay to the other.
The superyachts twinkle through the night, as do the stars, and food is served on the terrace, as are the drinks. The pool here is large, but some of the rooms are set back into the hillside, so they lack views; so be aware of this when you book.
10. Acqualina Resort & Residences on the Beach
Acqualina Resort & Residences is one of the best luxury beach hotels in Miami is one of the many Leading Hotels of the World in Miami in Florida. This is a fabulous hotel, and if you are prepared to risk the weather, August to November tend to be the cheapest months here due to the storms of the Hurricane season.
It will still be warm, and you will likely be able to enjoy the pool and beach, but the rates are usually a lot cheaper at this time of year.
There are plenty more Leading Hotels of the World in America, including The Newbury Boston, which we have reviewed, and a number of hotels in New York. The trick is to stay in the hotel at an unpopular time in that destination.
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Review: Royal Riviera. A Luxury Beach Hotel On Côte d'Azur
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Review: Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Hotel Hermitage Monte Carlo, pronounced Hermitaaaaage by the French, is a Belle Époque dream built in the early 1900s and is one of the two best luxury hotels in Monte Carlo. It lies across the road from its only competition in Monaco, the Hotel De Paris, which recently underwent a huge refurbishment and rebuild. Both are fabulous hotels. For me, the Hotel Hermitage Monte Carlo an easy choice. It's a more sophisticated and less glitzy choice in Monte Carlo. Hotel Hermitage Monte Carlo is a 40 minute taxi ride from Nice airport (around €100 EUR in a taxi).
Review: Puente Romano Beach Resort, Marbella
We arrived at Puente Romano Beach Resort after dark. Having left behind a grey and drizzly Autumnal day in England, it was a delight to step out of our taxi in short sleeves and experience the warm evening breeze that was rustling through the extensive greenery at the Puente Romano Hotel. After a quick check-in, I was ushered to a golf cart and driven through extensive gardens, past numerous pools, and to my room in an Andalusian-style low-rise building. Fly into Malaga, just 3 hours from the UK.
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The Marbella Club is the epitome of beachfront luxury. It basks in more than 300 days of sunshine a year and enjoys the rare European micro-climate that enables short sleeves in the winter and outdoor swimming and sunbathing from March to November. Drive through the pantheon-style arch at the entrance to this iconic hotel, and you drive into a slice of tropical beach-side paradise on the Marbella coastline. Fly into Malaga, just 3 hours from the UK.
Review: San Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice
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Review: Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
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