Destination Guides
27 Places for 2027
In each of these 27 places something concrete changes: a new law, a flight route, a hotel opening or a conservation plan. Here is exactly what, and when.
Sherry AI28 min read
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Hotel guides and destination writing from SherryStay — where to stay, what to know before you book, and how to find the right room.
Travel AI & Future of Travel
The 2030 Hotel Is Already Here: Where Robots Already Work Alongside People
A robot dinosaur at reception, check-in in five seconds, a robot knocking at your door with a towel, and an entire hotel in China designed around machines from the start. A tour of the hotels where the future is already on shift.
Sherry AI20 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: Australia and New Zealand
From Sydney Harbour to Lake Wakatipu: six destinations in Australia and New Zealand that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is the sea, the mountains and the cities.
Sherry AI7 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: Africa and the Middle East
From a safari inside a volcanic crater to the reefs of the Red Sea: six destinations in Africa and the Middle East that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is the landscape, the old city and the water.
Sherry AI7 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: The Caribbean and Latin America
From the shallow water of the Bahamas to the Iguazú falls: ten Caribbean and Latin American destinations that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is the sea, the old city and the landscape.
Sherry AI10 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: Asia
From Portuguese Macau to casino vessels moored in a river in Goa: twelve Asian destinations that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is everything else.
Sherry AI12 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: Europe, Mountains, Spas and Cities
From Black Forest baths to the ridges of the Engadin: ten European destinations that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is the hot water, the mountains and the cities.
Sherry AI10 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: Europe, The Coast
From Monaco harbour to the Black Sea: ten European coastal destinations that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is the sea, the old town and the food.
Sherry AI11 min read
Destination Guides
The World’s Most Extraordinary Casino Destinations 2026: North America
From the Nevada desert to Niagara Falls: twelve North American destinations that happen to have casinos, but the reason to fly is everything else.
Sherry AI16 min read
Hotel Guides
Sleeping Behind Bars: The Prisons You Can Check Into, and Leave Whenever You Want
From 18th-century cells to five-star suites, these real prisons were turned into hotels without erasing what came before.
Sherry AI11 min read
Hotel Guides
Tartaria's Hotels: Sleeping Inside the World That Looks Like It Vanished
The buildings that look like they belong to another civilisation, and what really happened there. Fifteen historic hotels you can still book a room in.
Sherry AI18 min read
Travel Trends
Rooms Written Into History: The Hotels Hiding Inside Great Books
Some hotels are famous for their guests, their architecture or their view. A smaller, more intriguing group became characters in the stories written about them. From The Shining to Death on the Nile, and which of them you can book with us.
Sherry AI15 min read
Travel Trends
Sleeping With Aliens
Some rooms are booked for the pool, the beach or the view. Others are booked for whatever might pass over them in the middle of the night. From Nevada and Roswell to the Australian outback, and which of them you can actually book with us.
Sherry AI15 min read
Hotel Guides
Sleeping at the End of the Horizon
From Patagonia to a lighthouse island in Sweden, from the Southern Ocean to the Freycinet Peninsula: places to stay where you open the window and feel the world has ended, and which of them you can book right now.
Sherry AI13 min read
Booking Tips
Refundable or Not?
We checked 1,812 hotels across six destinations: at 72.8% of them the cheapest price on offer was the one you cannot cancel. When paying more for free cancellation makes sense, when non-refundable wins, and what flexibility is really worth.
Sherry AI14 min read
Travel Trends
Sleeping Inside the Energy
In India, Bali, Bosnia and Giza there are places that built the whole guest experience around a single shape. A tour of the hotels and retreats that took the pyramid seriously, with a clear line between what can be measured and what is asserted.
Sherry AI13 min read
Hotel Guides
A Night on Floor 117: The Hotels Where the City Is Underneath the Bed
The tallest hotel in the world is in Dubai. The highest hotel room above the street is in Guangzhou. And in Hong Kong you can fall asleep in a suite on floor 117. We went travelling through the world's tallest hotels and found that to know who is really the highest, you first have to decide what exactly is being measured.
Sherry AI17 min read
Hotel Guides
Don't Leave the Station: The Hotels Where the Train Stops Almost Beside the Bed
You step off the train with your suitcase, but instead of looking for a taxi, a metro or an address on a map, you simply go up to your room. From Tokyo to a Spanish railway station reborn as a luxury hotel, we went looking for the places where the journey doesn't end at the station. It carries on into the hotel.
Sherry AI15 min read
Destination Guides
Madrid Isn't Trying to Impress You. And That's Exactly the Problem, You Might Fall for It
No sea like Barcelona, no Eiffel Tower like Paris, no Colosseum like Rome. And still, some people come to Madrid for a weekend and start checking rental prices. To understand why, you have to stop running between attractions and spend a few days living like a madrileño.
Sherry AI12 min read
Hotel Guides
The Hotels That Could Keep Running Even If the World Outside Switched Off
They stand in deserts, inside rainforests, on riverbanks and at the end of the world. Some generate their own electricity, others heat water with the sun, treat their sewage, grow food or have given up electricity altogether. We went to find out what happens when a hotel stops fighting nature and starts using what nature gives it.
Sherry AI16 min read
Destination Guides
We Thought We Knew the Seven Wonders of the World. In 2026 the Story Looks Completely Different
Everyone knows the photographs. Far fewer people know where to sleep, which airport to fly into, when to arrive to avoid the crowds and what to do in an emergency. The SherryStay guide to the Seven Wonders of the World is not just a wish list. It is meant to help you actually get to them.
Sherry AI16 min read
Destination Guides
The Cube That Keeps Coming Back: Ten Buildings, One Shape
The cube keeps returning in religion, in art and in architecture, in places with no apparent connection to one another. We went looking for the shape humanity will not stop building, and checked where you can actually sleep beside it.
Sherry AI18 min read
Destination Guides
The Drake Passage: A Complete Guide to the World’s Most Famous Crossing
The Drake Passage is the narrowest gap in the Southern Ocean and still 800 kilometres of nothing. A guide to why it is rough, what the Antarctic Convergence is, what you see out there, whether to sail it or fly over it, and where to stay in Ushuaia the night before.
Sherry AI14 min read
Destination Guides
Sleep, Shop, Repeat: Hotels Where Shopping Is Part of the Stay
Some hotels are near the shops. A few are inside them. A guide to the cities where you can pick a hotel so that shopping becomes part of the stay rather than an outing from it.
Sherry AI17 min read
Destination Guides
13 Incredible Hotels You Can Only Reach by Boat
Thirteen hotels and lodges where the road simply stops: floating cabins on a Thai lake, private islands in Palawan and Belize, a fjord lodge in British Columbia and a Whitsundays resort with no airstrip. Every one of them is bookable on SherryStay, and every transfer time here comes from the property itself.
Sherry AI14 min read
Destination Guides
King George Island, Antarctica: The Complete Guide to the Island You Can Actually Fly To
Most people reach Antarctica by sailing the Drake Passage. A smaller number fly. King George Island is where those flights land: an island of research stations, a Chilean airfield and an expedition anchorage, and the practical gateway behind every Fly & Cruise itinerary.
Sherry AI13 min read
Hotel Guides
Where Celebrities Actually Sleep
Not a list of expensive hotels, but places with a documented room and a documented story: from Marilyn’s bungalow to the suite where Jay-Z and Kanye launched an album.
Sherry AI11 min read
Hotel Guides
The Hotels Around the World Where All the Food Is Halal
When a hotel says Halal Friendly, that still does not mean everything it serves is halal. We looked for hotels where all the food is halal, and separated that from being alcohol-free.
Sherry AI11 min read
Hotel Guides
The Suites Where the Most Powerful People in the World Slept
Not every suite called Presidential has ever hosted a president. We sorted these places into three tiers by how strong the source is, and checked that every hotel here can actually be booked.
Sherry AI11 min read
Hotel Guides
The Most Incredible Football Hotels and Hotel Rooms in the World
Not hotels that happen to sit near a stadium, but places where football is genuinely part of the stay, from England and Italy to Thailand, South Africa, Brazil and Malaysia.
Sherry AI13 min read
