Plan & book
Your gateway to the world’s finest hotels — discovered here, booked by us.
The Grand Index is where you find where to go. We are also how you book it. As an independent luxury travel advisor with Fora — a Virtuoso member agency — we reserve the houses featured throughout this index at the same rates you’d pay direct, layer on VIP perks, and handle the trip end to end. There is no fee to you.
The advisor difference
Booked for you, with perks money can’t add later.
- Same rate, more value
- You pay the same price as booking direct — the perks below are layered on at no extra cost.
- Room upgrade on arrival
- Subject to availability, via Virtuoso and brand preferred-partner programs.
- Daily breakfast for two
- Full breakfast at most houses — not a stripped-down continental.
- ~$100+ property credit
- Toward spa or dining at most properties, once per stay.
- Early check-in / late checkout
- Held when available, plus VIP recognition so you are flagged on arrival.
- A human who owns the trip
- One advisor handles the booking, the requests, and the problems — and you keep your own card points.
Your advisor
Ilyas Colombowala, MD
Founder & Travel Advisor · Fora (Virtuoso member agency)
A cardiac electrophysiologist and lifelong traveller, Ilyas founded The Grand Index to bring the rigour he applies in medicine to one question: where, exactly, to stay, dine and arrive in style. As an independent luxury travel advisor with Fora — a Virtuoso member agency — he books the houses featured here at the same rates you would pay direct, with VIP perks layered on, and handles every detail of the trip.