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A remote Canadian hotel described as a “beacon of hope” in a world of cultural conformity has landed on a prestigious list of the world’s top accommodations.
Fogo Island Inn has been recognized in Condé Nast Traveller’s annual Gold List for 2025, which recommends inns from the Ritz-Carlton in New York to Gstaad Palace in Switzerland. In the North American section of its list, the travel publisher praises the Fogo Island Inn, on Canada’s East Coast, for upholding its “utopian founding principles” since opening its doors in 2013.
“For anyone who has bemoaned the flattening of cultures everywhere, Fogo Island offers a beacon of hope,” it said. “On this remote island off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador that’s slammed by wind and waves, cod-fishing communities hold on to their distinctive settler history — and accents — despite mounting pressures.”
It extolled the 29-room inn’s “dramatic views, daily changing menus and wilderness excursions,” as well as its forest boil-ups — a traditional meal warmed over an outdoor fire. “But its greatest distinction remains the islanders themselves, whose wellsprings of warmth define your stay.”
The editors of Condé Nast Traveller have been compiling the Gold List for 31 years, “an annual compendium of hotels and cruises we’ve discovered, or fallen in love with all over again.” They added: “We highlight them not only for their beauty, comfort, or impeccable service, but also because we’ve developed emotional relationships with them: these are the hotels we recommend to our friends, that we tell stories about later.”