Privacy policy

We try to collect as little as possible. The site uses essential cookies needed for it to function and, with your consent, anonymous analytics to understand which articles readers find useful. No advertising trackers run on the site.

When you click through to a booking partner (the Book Now buttons), that partner may set its own cookies and read referral parameters. We disclose this on the destination and hotel pages where affiliate links appear.

When you email us, we keep that correspondence for as long as needed to handle your message — typically twelve months — then delete it.

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Essential cookies stay regardless. They handle things like remembering your filter selections, your consent choice, and basic security.

You can clear your consent and choices at any time by clearing this site's cookies in your browser, or by emailing contact@luxuryhotels.best.

If you accept analytics cookies, we collect anonymised page-view data — which articles are read, how long visits last, which countries readers come from. We do not collect or transmit any data that could identify you personally.

Analytics are processed by Vercel Analytics and, where applicable, Google Analytics 4 (with IP anonymisation enabled). Both providers are bound by appropriate data-processing agreements.

Some hotel pages contain affiliate links to third-party booking platforms (such as Trip.com or Booking.com). If you book through one, the site may receive a small commission at no cost to you. The commission never influences which hotels appear in our editorial — that is, and remains, an independent selection.

Under GDPR, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port, or object to processing of any personal data we hold about you. Most readers leave no personal data with us, but if you have emailed us or believe we hold something — write to contact@luxuryhotels.best and we will respond within thirty days.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data-protection authority. In Sweden, that is the Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY).

We review this policy at least annually. Material changes will be noted with a revision date at the foot of this page and, where significant, announced via a brief banner on the site.