These top-scoring properties from our most recent World’s Best Awards survey are worth planning a whole trip around.

Courtesy of Grand Hotel Tremezzo

An extraordinary setting.

Design that feels both unexpected and of-the-moment.

A luxury poolside area with lounge chairs and umbrellas, overlooking a serene lake and surrounding hills with buildings nearby

One of three pools at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, a T+L 500 property located on Italy’s Lake Como.Credit:Courtesy of Grand Hotel Tremezzo

Service that goes above and beyond.

When a hotel feels truly exceptional, our readers are slow to forget.

In the T+L 500, we present the highest-scoring hotels from our previous yearsWorlds Best Awards survey.

Pair of photos from Hotel Peter & Paul in New Orleans, one showing a guest room, and one showing a seating area

Hotel Peter & Paul is spread across four 1860s buildings in New Orleans. Shown here: A guest room (left) in a former convent, and the parlor space at the hotel’s Elysian Bar (right), in an old rectory.Emily Ferretti/Travel + Leisure

Below, we spotlight 10 properties that truly embody what it takes to land on the most-loved list.

You may just want to stay in Marrakech forever.

Pair of photos from Mauna Lani, one showing the restaurant’s exterior, and one showing the atrium space

Mauna Lani’s Canoe House restaurant (left) and the hotel’s atrium, featuring a wooden outrigger canoe (right).Michelle Mishina Kunz/Travel + Leisure

Pair of photos from a luxury hotel in Sao Paulo, one showing the exterior and a garden, and one showing a pool

The Rosewood São Paulo surrounded by gardens (left}, and a pool at the hotel (right).Carmen Campos/Travel + Leisure

A guest room at a hotel in Greece, with crisp white bedding

A guest room at Kalesma Mykonos.Marco Argüello/Travel + Leisure

A woman in a pool overlooking Portugal’s Douro Valley

The outdoor pool at the Six Senses Douro Valley.Rodrigo Cardoso/Travel + Leisure

A family dining on a waterfront terrace in Jamaica

Waterside dining at Rockhouse Hotel & Spa in Jamaica.Clay Williams/Travel + Leisure

A guest room at a safari lodge

A bedroom at Mfuwe Lodge, the Bushcamp Company, in Zambia.Courtesy of The Bushcamp Company

A guest room at the La Mamounia hotel in Morocco

The Katoubia Suite at La Mamounia.Courtesy of La Mamounia

City skyline view from the lobby of the Regent Hong Kong hotel

Skyline views of Hong Kong Island from the Regent Hong Kong’s lobby lounge.Calvin Sit/Travel + Leisure

A stone-lined path leads to the spa at a luxury hotel in Japan

The entrance to the spa at Aman Kyoto.Courtesy of Aman