The Best Places to Sleep Under the Darkest Skies on Earth

Most hotel rooms are designed to keep the outside world out. In a handful of remarkable destinations, the opposite is true. Beds are positioned beneath glass roofs, open-air shelters or remote desert skies so that guests can fall asleep while watching stars move overhead. These places offer a very different kind of luxury, one based on isolation, silence and darkness. From Namibia to New Zealand and Finnish Lapland, travellers can now build an entire holiday around the simple pleasure of spending a night beneath an exceptionally clear sky.