Only one destination in Canada has made an illustrious lineup of the best hotels and resorts in the world.
On Wednesday, Condé Nast Traveler released its Gold List 2025, showcasing top notch accommodations around the globe.
This is the 31st year the travel publication’s editors have compiled the annual list of hotels and resorts.
“We highlight them not only for their beauty, comfort, or impeccable service, but also because we’ve developed deeply emotional relationships with them: These are the hotels and cruises we recommend to our friends, that we tell stories about later,” reads the guide.
The only spot in Canada that made the list is Newfoundland’s Fogo Island Inn.
“For anyone who has bemoaned the flattening of cultures everywhere, Fogo Island offers a beacon of hope,” wrote Condé Nast Traveler editor Arati Menon.
Fogo Island Inn sits on an island off the Northeast coast of Newfoundland. According to its site, every one of its 29 guest rooms and suites overlook “the wildest and most powerful ocean on the planet.”
“Local-born entrepreneur Zita Cobb dreamed up Fogo Island Inn as a community-owned hospitality business that could improve the island’s economic resilience by plugging it into a wider world,” wrote Menon.
The inn opened its doors in 2013, built on the principles of sustainability and respect for nature and culture. Its site says 100% of operating surpluses are reinvested into the community to secure a sustainable future for Fogo Island.
A stay at Fogo Island Inn isn’t cheap. For two guests, rooms can go for around $2,400 to over $4,400 a night, but these rates do include all meals from breakfast, lunch, and dinner to in-between meals and 24-hour room service.
The price also includes access to all amenities and services at Fogo Island Inn like its sauna and hot tubs, outdoor guides, and e-bicycles.
Menon says the spot has “lured purpose-driven luxury travelers” since its inception thanks to its “utopian founding principles” and “dramatic views, daily changing menus, and wilderness excursions featuring geological hikes and forest boil-ups (a traditional meal warmed over a fire in the great outdoors).”
But she says there’s more to the island than the inn.
“Its greatest distinction remains the islanders themselves, whose wellsprings of warmth define your stay,” wrote Menon.
“These boat builders, quilters, and storytellers welcome you into their sheds for singalongs and salted cod, allowing you to really understand this place — and how everything knits together.”
If you want to treat yourself to a stay at Fogo Island Inn, you’ll need to book months ahead. As of December, it’s fully booked until April 2025.
The inn was also named among the top 100 suites in the world for its lavish “Flat Earth Suite.”