One&Only Cape Town

The latest property from One&Only, features a waterfront resort with 131 large, high-tech rooms. The knockout first impression as you walk in the door is the hotel’s 40-foot-tall picture window framing Table Mountain. But then outsize luxury is trumpeted everywhere here, from the tri-level "wine loft" at Rueben's, and a outpost of sushi master Nobuyuki Matsuhisa's Nobu, to the spa’s French manicure clinic by Bastien Gonzalez. The cream-colored, Adam D. Tihany–designed rooms are slick and vast; baths have a wow factor, too, though with a notable style-over-substance lapse (the freestanding tubs are huge, beautiful—and a bit uncomfortable).