As we compiled this year’s Editors’ Choice Awards, we took great pleasure in reminiscing about our stays at previous Hideaways of the Year. The properties below remain as enticing as ever, and we would return to any of them given the slightest excuse.

Last year: &Beyond Punakha River Lodge

Bhutan

Opened in 2023, &Beyond Punakha River Lodge is an extraordinary eight-suite resort that counts among those rare properties that have it all: stylish décor with a strong sense of place, a tranquil but convenient location, accommodations with every modern comfort, stupendous views — in this case up a valley to the snowcapped Gasa Mountains — and, not least, service that’s highly professional, good-humored and intuitive. Our canvas-walled room wasn’t the largest we had in Bhutan, but I appreciated the well-considered eclecticism. The local and international cuisine was unfailingly delicious — vital in a lodge that’s not near any restaurants of note. If Bhutan weren’t so far away, I’d make a stay at &Beyond Punakha River Lodge an annual tradition. Maybe I will anyway.