Angelina Jolie

Hotel Cipriani turns the tip of Giudecca into Venice's most cinematic private retreat, reached by boat and wrapped in gardens and lagoon light. Sophia Loren was a longtime regular, part of a guestbook whose enduring glamour mirrors the city's film festival mythology.

The restored Waldorf Astoria New York revives Park Avenue's grandest Art Deco address. The glamour is personal for Paris and Nicky Hilton: both sisters spent part of their teenage years living in the hotel with their family.

Angelina Jolie is among the well-known guests associated with Zannier Phum Baitang, a Siem Reap retreat designed around the calm of a Cambodian village. Villas sit among rice paddies, with private terraces, a long infinity pool and a spa creating space to slow down. The appeal is quiet and deeply visual—a private base close to Angkor, yet removed from the movement of town.

Angelina Jolie returned twice to stay in The Peninsula Shanghai's Majestic Suite, a repeat visit that says more than a single red-carpet appearance. The suite's scale and privacy offer a retreat above the Bund, while the hotel keeps Shanghai's riverfront spectacle in view. It is polished, cinematic luxury, but the strongest detail is that one of the world's most recognizable actors chose to come back.

Barack Obama chose Hotel Adlon Kempinski while in Berlin, joining a guest history that includes Michael Jackson and Angelina Jolie. Beside the Brandenburg Gate, the hotel has the rare quality of feeling both intensely public and carefully shielded. Its formal rooms, landmark address and practiced discretion create a Berlin stay with genuine diplomatic and celebrity weight.

The Taj Mahal Palace faces Mumbai's Gateway of India with domes, harbour views and more than a century of grand-hotel theatre. Prince William stayed in its heritage wing with Catherine during their 2016 India tour, adding a fourth generation of British royals to the guestbook.

The focus at Luxury Resort is a swimming pool, matched by a well-placed address in Zadar. It is an uncomplicated way to stay close to Zadar.

Angelina Jolie has been spotted as a guest at Waldorf Astoria Orlando, bringing a Hollywood name to the resort's quieter corner of Walt Disney World. The appeal lies in that contrast: theme-park energy remains close, but the hotel offers pools, golf and spacious rooms as a more composed retreat. It is an easy place for a famous family to balance adventure with time away from the crowds.

There is a clear focus at Shangri-La: a spa and a fitness centre, a five-star address beside the mesmerizing Chao Phraya River, and the wider appeal of Bangkok just beyond the hotel.

Barack Obama spent a night at The Leela Palace New Delhi, while Tom Cruise stayed in the Maharaja Suite and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have used the Presidential Suite. Few hotels possess a guest history with such immediate star power. The palace-like interiors and Diplomatic Enclave setting create a stay built around privacy, ceremony and the confidence of a property used to major arrivals.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt stayed at Maisons Wat Kor in 2016 while she directed First They Killed My Father. The intimate Siem Reap property became a private base during a deeply personal Cambodian production. Traditional architecture, gardens and a slower residential mood give the hotel its appeal: less a grand resort than a quiet place to withdraw after demanding days on location.

Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp were photographed leaving Hotel Danieli during their time in Venice, adding a modern film chapter to one of the city's great cinematic addresses. Gothic halls, Murano glass and lagoon views give the hotel a ready-made sense of drama. A stay feels inseparable from Venice itself: ornate, theatrical and reached through a front door that seems designed for a famous exit.

Chateau Marmont hides Old Hollywood behind Gothic turrets, private bungalows and a shadowed courtyard. Sofia Coppola knew it first through childhood stays, later lived here for two weeks during Lost in Translation's promotion and transformed that intimate familiarity into the atmosphere of Somewhere.