Father's Day Gift Guide 2024: The Best Hotel Gifts

The Officine Universelle Buly 1803 beauty case contains cult products from the Hotel de Crillon in ... [+] Paris

Officine Universelle Buly 1803

The most sophisticated hotels - and adventure companies - have the most sophisticated gifts. Whether you want to surprise your dad with a gift to signal a forthcoming trip or as a souvenir from a holiday already taken, these presents are thoughtful and very stylish.

UXUA sunglasses

These glasses were designed by the UXUA's artist in residence.

UXUA

Wilbert Das, former creative director of fashion label Diesel, opened UXUA Casa Hotel in Trancoso, Brazil in 2009. It has strong eco-chic credentials. These limited edition sunglasses ($375), are crafted in Trancoso by UXUA’s artist-in-residence, Mark Inglis and mix three different types of reclaimed wood and sustainably-sourced buffalo bone with lenses from German manufacturer Zeis.

Bremont White Desert watch

Only people who have travelled to the South Pole with White Desert can buy this watch.

LOOPFILMS

For avid travelers, Father’s Day presents don’t get much more spectacular than this. You can only buy this Bremont watch ($14,000) if you have taken a voyage with White Desert to the South Pole. The eight-day trip starts in Cape Town with a private jet to Antarctica’s Wolf Fang Runway. The itinerary includes climbing, biking and abseiling as well as visiting a colony of emperor penguins in Atka Bay. The watch can be engraved with the date of their journey.

007 Special Edition Blackwell Fine Jamaican Rum

The 007 Blackwell Rum has been created by the owner of GoldenEye in Jamaica

Blackwell Rum

Ian Fleming wrote many of the later James Bond novels at GoldenEye, his estate in Jamaica. Now a luxury hotel, owner Chris Blackwell has launched a 007 Collector’s Edition ($700) of his prized Blackwell Fine Jamaican Rum in 2023 in celebration of over 60 years of the James Bond film franchise. Fewer than 1,000 have been created, all are hand-numbered and feature a black and white photo of one of the original cinema lobby cards from the Dr. No film and a personalized and signed note from Chris Blackwell.

Buly Great Traveller’s Beauty Case

The Grand Traveller's Beauty case is filled with cult products from the Hotel de Crillon in Paris.

Officine Universelle Buly 1803

When the Hotel de Crillon, one of the most famous hotels in Paris, wanted to choose new toiletries, it went to the equally venerable firm of Officine Universelle Buly 1803 which created a special shampoo and conditioner for the hotel. Now these products have been included in Buly’s two new leather travel sets. The Great Traveler’s Beauty Case (£420) includes an extraordinarily sensory combination of Buly products including toothpaste with mint, coriander and cucumber, cooly elegant Scottish Lichen eau de parfum and shower oil in peruvian heliotrope. The case - which also has an integrated mirror - can be monogrammed with the initials of your father along several of its products, including an acetate toothbrush and a lip balm.

Le Sirenuse Eau d’Italie Jasmine Leather

Jasmine Leather is part of a line of fragrances created by the owners of Le Sirenuse hotel on ... [+] Italy's Amalfi coast

Le Sirenuse

The justly famous Amalfi coast hotel of Le Sirenuse also creates the award-winning, Eau d’Italie fragrance. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary as a fragrance line Jasmine Leather is a gently but firmly masculine combination of two thoroughly Italian ingredients with cedar wood, saffron and a touch of patchouli. In a simple flask, it’s got seriously Italian stealth style. .

Gleneagles: Stories from the Glorious Playground

This book celebrates the centenary of Scotland's most famous hotels and golf courses.

Rizzoli

Published in May 2024, this book ($115) marks the centenary of Gleneagles, one of the most famous hotels in Scotland. With a foreword from H.R.H The Princess Royal contributes a foreword, James Collard traces the history of the hotel, including golf and countryside pursuits, as well as its culinary history and events that included a Dior fashion show in 1955. Bound in cloth with a slipcase, it features specially commissioned photographs as well as vintage images.

Cervo Mountain Resort organic cotton yoga mat

These yoga mats are made in India by a company that provides free school meals.

Cervo Mountain Resort

The 54-room Cervo Mountain Resort is a particularly attractive example of the new Swiss cool hotel movement. Lowkey and highly sustainable it celebrates the natural world both in terms of construction and its surroundings near Zermatt. This extends to its yoga mat (CHF 89) Made from organic cotton in India it is supple and stylish and for every one sold, the manufacturer provides a week’s meal to a child in India.