The latest hotel to join Alila’s stable of luxury resorts sits perched on the side of a lake in China’s achingly beautiful Anji county—site of those dramatic bamboo forest battles in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

There are just 34 villas and 40 suites at the tranquil Alila Anji (www.alilahotels.com/anji), each offering a sanctuary of warm wood veneers against crisp white render and plush silver carpets. Views look out on nothing but virgin mountain forest as it disappears into the still gray waters of the lake—the perfect place for a spot of river rafting should you choose to leave the resort.

Book for July and you can get rates starting at around B7,400/night, but Jan-Feb are really the months to go, when rates jump a little to B10,300.