For this wonderfully dark-black satire, director Mike White returned to the Hawaiian holidays of his childhood, taking over the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea during Covid lockdown. Rest assured the suites were kitsched up for the show and the real staff are a great, great deal more professional. Set in 22 acres of rainforest by Byron Bay , its glass-dominated building features bare wood and plenty of light, an outdoor pool and a forest-bound geodesic yoga dome, and no experimental Russian gurus.
Book The Magnolia Suite for the full Groundhog experience before wandering the locations around the picturebook town of Woodstock, Illinois. The house annual Groundhog Day Events run 25 January to 8 February , including tours, trivia quiz and dinner.
Website: sahara-palace-marrakech. While there, you can enjoy the pan-Indian cuisine of Michelin-star-grabbing chef Atul Kochhar at the Hawkyns restaurant. The Headland Hotel in Newquay, overlooking Fistral Beach from its clifftop perch, is a classic Victorian build from the early years of tourism, now offering an ultra-smart version of the bucket-and-spade holiday, with spa and seafood dining. This globetrotting romcom was packed full of high-end hotels, from the legendary Raffles to the Four Seasons in Langkawi , but the real eyecatcher comes in the final reel with a visit to the Marina Bay Sands, the three-towered Vegas-style resort in Singapore.
Taking over the top 14 storeys out of 52 in the middle of Shinjuku, this Nineties build remains exemplarily modern. While the cast was impressive, the real star of this feel-good Britcom was architectural.
The Ravla Khempur was built for a local squire in the 17th century, then converted into a hotel. The view onto the Ponte Vecchio is still rub-your-eyes spectacular, but a few things have changed. While it was never the Pensione Bertolini of the book , at the time of filming this was still the Quisisana e Ponte Vecchio, more clearly a 13th-century building.
