EHIND the curtain at COUNTRY LIFE, the inaugural list of the best hotels in the world has been on the assembly line for more than a year. Sitting at commuter-train tray tables, under duvets, sometimes at desks and certainly in loos, editors and travel writers hunched over keyboards, pinging about why this up-and-comer in Maine or that smallholding in Devon deserved page space. What makes a great hotel
