Inside hotels with an ultra-private room redefining luxury trips

Enter the Brownie to end all brownies. He came covered MalaiThe Indian version of the coagulated cream and the jagré pulverized. My spoon slipped through, revealing such a humid and black interior, it seemed that you could grow tomatoes.

The dessert was not, however, the softest thing about this epic meal in the license room, a Dishoom Empire branch based in London. The gentle part was the fact that the only thing that separates me from postprandial relaxation in a waffle knitting dress was a viridian stairwell to the accommodation – a hotel from a room that I had everything for me.

The two -bedroom apartment with two bathrooms, splashed with exuberant fabrics and artistic lighting, has arched windows that look at the famous Portobello road market in the neighborhood, where tourists and skitter residents between the stands, tea tree, first edition books and vintage trenches. And there were also a lot of treasures in housing, including a collection of intelligent vinyl and a real modern South Asian art museum organized by the gallery owner Rajiv Menon.

The founders of Dishoom, Cousins ​​Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, have been thinking of this hotel concept for some time. “We have always loved these stays in Bombay with friends or family, someone who learns food in our hands and the feeling of being properly taken care of,” explains Kavi. “We wondered, if we could bottle this feeling of warmth and hospitality, and bring it here?”

The cousins ​​welcomed millions for meals in their four license rooms and 11 Dishoom restaurants, but the opening of housing in July (£ 700 per night) marks the first time they made the night of the guests spent.

They struck a new mood in the luxury hotel race for arms: sumptuous hiding places that combine the intimacy of a rental for exclusive use with the amenities of a full -service property. It turns out that the most scarce stay is the one where you are the only guest.

You will not find these rooms on Expedia. Reservations are generally by e-mail or an old-fashioned telephone call. At 1Roomhotel in Detroit, in a historic corktown building – it has an infrared sauna, a Soho house furniture and a 1000 square feet terrace – the Hotel Doug Schwartz works mainly by reference. “We are only a reservation per week, 50 guests per year,” he says. “So we really try to answer this person.” This could mean their favorite cocktail taken from the Minibar, or a visit around Motor City in the house car, a 1972 restored Ford Bronco. “In a hotel with a hundred rooms,” he said, “all that is lost in the translation.”

Although these properties are not all superior to restaurants, most travelers in foods target their dining room experience in the bedroom. From Chicago (the minimalist loft of Michelin Twostar Oriole) to Tasmania (The Ogee Guesthouse, neighbor of the wine bar perpetually crowded with the same name), access to a difficult to obtain reservation is a full -fledged motivating convenience.

The license room has a line of guests full of hope tightening the front door all day. But as a only guest at night, I had a table that awaited me whenever I wanted to eat, or I could order a bedroom service from the blue landline in my living room. Before going to bed, I marked my breakfast order on the door handle handle menu, and I woke up with fragrant chai masala, a ginger shot that stimulates immunity, French toast and speckled yogurt with what looked at $ 100 of vanilla pod. The minibar refrigerator was filled with superb Disho mango lassi.

In Paris, those who cannot go into the famous silver tower could consider his apartment Augusta (€ 1,800 per night). André Terrail, whose family has owned the restaurant on the left bank for 114 years, converted it in 2023 from the old private dining room. Why leave the magic of tasting the tour on the tour after paying the bill, when it could continue with a last drink overlooking a lady bed and an illuminated sleep in a tailor -made house bed? The Grandfather de Terrail also managed the emblematic George V Hotel (now the Four Seasons) at the beginning of the 20th century, so “it seemed logical that we built in a hotel type experience,” he said.

But it was the terrail grandmother, Augusta Burdel, who inspired the design. Patrapes of the arts and women on the city, she lived in the apartment 50 years ago, and would probably appreciate the Scandinavian sauna and the blue -made peacock kitchen, as well as the ivory ivory lambris ivory floors. Customers have the race for the place and can hire a bartender to mix the Martinis in residence or relax on the roof terrace of the restaurant after closing the place for the night.

“The apartment is a bit like going to Disneyland (mixed) with the history of Terrail and the Silver Tower,” explains Terrail. “I think we have fun with tons.

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The housing of the license room, London

The cousins ​​behind Dishoom, the very popular Indian restaurant chain, bring good hospitality from Bombay to Portobello Road.

La Tour d’Argent’s Augusta Apartment, Paris

André Terrail, owner of the third generation of the restaurant, modernized what was once the apartment of his grandmother with a colorful flair.

1Roomhotel, Detroit

The 50 guests per year who hang a reservation here can enjoy an infrared sauna, a spacious terrace and the opportunity to open in a 1972 Ford Bronco.

The Oriole loft, Chicago

A stay above the restaurant at two Michelin-Star includes a reservation at Oriole’s Kitchen Table for “a culinary experience in the first row” with chef Noah Sandoval.

Ogee Guesthouse, Tasmania

The two -bedroom apartment in Matt and Monique Breen – stages of their renowned restaurant, Ogee – offers a listening room with records from their own collection.

This article appears in the October / November 2025 issue of Fortune With the title “Be our (alone) guest”.

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