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Forget renting someone’s spare room for the night. Airbnb Luxe gives you the run of a portfolio of extraordinary properties, including the Gudliya Suite at India’s City Palace of Jaipur, home to Rajasthani royalty.

In the green hills of China’s Zhejiang province, clad with bamboo and tea plantations, Alila’s Anji resort offers repose and peace in 72 indulgent and modernist villas and suites