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Super-Lux For Not So Much? Try Croatia’s Lešić Dimitri Palace

Where: Don Pavla Poše 1-6, Korčula, Croatia, 20260

You know the argument about how small a hotel has to be to qualify as boutique? Well here’s one that’ll definitely qualify: Lešić Dimitri Palace on the gorgeous medieval Korčula island in Croatia, which is opening next month, has only six rooms.

We say "rooms," but we can see why the hotel likes to call them "residences" — because even the smallest has a separate sitting area. In fact, the largest has four bedrooms and three bathrooms, plus a living room.

The building was the old bishop’s palace on Korčula — so there are a few creamy stone walls about, and the rest of the decor is simple but classy, giving those cream and greige palettes a workout. Don't confuse that for stark though – it’s themed on the Silk Road (Marco Polo was supposed to have lived on the island), so those plain colours are nicely latticed and patterned.

The hotel reckons it’ll be providing an “extremely high level of personalized service”, and because of the small number of rooms, we’re betting that they won’t be wrong. For a start, they’ve got private yachts (yup, plural) if you fancy floating round the nearby islands. Best of all are the prices. If this is as swish as it sounds, the starting rates of €180 ($248/£158) per night sound pretty swell to us. Better hope it lives up to expectations (and if it doesn’t, you can always private yacht it out of there).