Britain's busiest holiday cottage?

Why is the Pavilion on the Isle of Wight booked for two years? + 10 new historic places to rent in 2008

• Britain's 20 best holiday cottages

A palace for the weekend

Norman forts, Jacobean palaces, Georgian follies: historic buildings can be yours for the weekend

• How to stay in a castle in England

Britain’s top 10 hotels

The Good Hotel Guide reveals its favourite for 2008: we stay a night in all 10 under cover

• Britain's hip hotels

• Britain's best green hotels

Britain’s best restaurants with rooms

Sunday Times writers lift the lid on their favourite foodie bolt holes across the country, from £70

• 10 gourmet hotels in the British Isles

The top 10 B&Bs in England

The Sunday Times sent its ruthless hotel inspector, Walter F Stowy, to see if B&Bs are up to scratch

• Six green British B&Bs

• The best B&Bs for gardeners

Britain's best beach-side B&Bs

Yes, you can take the kids to the seaside - and it needn't cost. Here are the best-value family B&Bs

• Ten child-friendly hotels in Britain

• Europe's best family-friendly hotels

8 Paris hotels extraordinaire

A taste for the quirky and unusual? How about an outrageous Gothic beauty or a barge on the Seine?

• Three Paris hotels for romance

Hot, hip and historic French hotels

Make the hotel the destination this year with one of our top 10 places to stay, from the Channel to Paris

• The hottest hotels in Paris

Madrid's best hotels

A modernised Gran Via masterpiece, a stately home from home, a sexy budget design hotel and more

• Sawday's pick of Spain's hotels

The pride of Portugal's pousadas

There are 40 of the historic hotels - on a flying visit to Lisbon, Chris McCooey visited three of the best

• The six best pousadas in Portugal

20 top European hotels

Under thumbscrews, writers at The Sunday Times reveal the hotels they didn’t want you to know about

• Europe's coolest hotels

• Europe's high mountain hotels

12 top jungle treehouses

From Sweden to South Africa, we round up a dozen of the best hotel treehouses on earth

• The 8 best eco lodges in Costa Rica

The world's 20 best hotels on a budget

Gorgeous places to stay, stylish service, stunning views, epic bedrooms - without breaking the bank

• Luxury hotels: no need to splash out