August, at the world’s best hotels.
27 hand-picked hotels are in their quiet season this month — the same rooms, in the months we’d actually go, 13 of them with an open off-peak window right now.
Europe
6
paris · FR
Saint James Paris
August Paris: the city exhales, and grand hotels quietly discount.
paris · FR
Château Voltaire
August Paris: the city exhales, and grand hotels quietly discount.
paris · FR
Hotel de Crillon
August Paris: the city exhales, and grand hotels quietly discount.
paris · FR
Le Bristol Paris
August Paris: the city exhales, and grand hotels quietly discount.
paris · FR
La Reserve Paris
August Paris: the city exhales, and grand hotels quietly discount.
paris · FR
Hotel Costes
August Paris: the city exhales, and grand hotels quietly discount.
Asia
10
rajasthan · IN
RAAS Jodhpur
Off-season Rajasthan: hot afternoons, yes — and palace hotels at half their winter rates.
niseko · JP
Zaborin
Green-season Niseko: alpine hiking and onsen at a fraction of powder-season rates.
siem reap · KH
Phum Baitang
Green-season Angkor: moats full, rice paddies electric green, temples uncrowded.
sri lanka hill country · LK
Ceylon Tea Trails
The southwest monsoon barely brushes the high tea country — misty mornings, low rates.
chiang mai · TH
Raya Heritage
The green season in Lanna country: dramatic skies, full rivers, empty temples.
kyoto · JP
Sowaka
Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.
kyoto · JP
Aman Kyoto
Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.
kyoto · JP
The Shinmonzen
Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.
kyoto · JP
HOSHINOYA Kyoto
Green-season Kyoto: river dining and mossy temples between the tourist waves.
maheshwar · IN
Ahilya Fort
The monsoon on the Narmada: the river high, the ghats washed clean, the fort quiet.
Africa
2
North America
5
palm springs · US
Korakia Pensione
Summer highs top 105F, but this is precisely when Palm Springs rates crater; plan around dawn tee times, misted patios and long pool afternoons and it works.
los cabos · MX
Las Ventanas al Paraíso
Warm sea and desert storms light — the quiet late-summer window.
big sky · US
One&Only Moonlight Basin
Big Sky without ski-season prices: hiking, fly fishing, dark-sky nights.
costa rica · CR
Pacuare Lodge
Green season in the rainforest: rivers full, wildlife loud, lodges at their gentlest rates.
baja california · MX
Paradero
Late-summer Baja: warm Pacific swells and the desert before the winter crowd.
