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60 Thompson

About 60 Thompson Hotel: 60 Thompson is a luxury boutique hotel in the lower part of the Soho neighborhood of New York City. With airy loft-like rooms and a popular roof-top bar, 60 Thompson is a favorite of guests seeking both privacy and downtown nightlife and shopping. Tab...

Hotel Juana

Though it’s passed through varying degrees of cool, from golden age to slightly passé and back again and again, it’s by now clear that the French Riviera is just one of those timeless destinations. The perennial warm-weather migration back to this stretch of the Mediterranean is due in part to th...

Kokopelli’s Cave

Enjoy the stillness of a 65-million-year-old Ojo Alamo Sandstone rock, 70 feet below the surface!

Hotel Villa Real

Madrid’s Hotel Villa Real may be a bit more traditional in style than its sister, Barcelona’s Claris—but that’s to be expected, given the stylistic differences between the two cities. The Villa Real may not be an ultra-modern design showcase, but for conservative Madrid, it’s downright striking, ...

The Angler's Boutique Resort

Well south of Lincoln Way on a formerly neglected stretch of lower Washington Avenue, the Angler’s is a bit of a departure for South Beach hotels; visually it’s a Mediterranean Revival standout in the midst of the Art Deco district, and in terms of atmosphere, this enclosed residential compound f...

Grand Hotel Baglioni

Bologna may be the original college town, and home to a thriving bike culture not seen this side of Amsterdam, but that doesn’t mean you’re in for student housing: the Baglioni is a classic five-star grand hotel, by far the poshest in town. After all, even a university town can expect its share o...

Londolozi Private Game Reserve

Here’s a safari camp that sets out in the direction of high luxury and never looks back. At Londolozi Private Game Reserve it’s about making the bush experience as stylish and comfortable as is humanly possible. To begin with, Londolozi’s physical location is about as auspicious as it gets. It’s ...

AC Palacio Del Retiro

In spite of its not entirely undeserved conservative reputation, Madrid’s got a few modern hotels that, in their own serious way, stand up to some of Barcelona’s more outré experiments. Behind the 1908 facade of a palace facing the famous Retiro park, the AC Palacio del Retiro is a de...

Moreno Hotel

The trouble with boutique hotels, if you had to boil it down to just one thing, is that the very same stylish modern design that’s supposed to set them apart too often ends up feeling a bit samey, a bit rootless, a bit ‘where-am-I-this morning’. That’s a problem you won’t have with the Moreno, ho...

The Dorchester

Since it opened in 1931, The Dorchester maintained its high-class standards and is now one of the best hotels in London.

Emiliano

We can’t possibly say enough about this hotel, except possibly that if you’re a design and architecture junkie, and you’re not left speechless, then we don’t know you. Even from the street, Emiliano is an imposing presence, a narrow glass tower, gleaming amidst the high-rises of the fashionable J...

Taj Lake Palace

The Taj Lake Palace floats on the calm surface of Lake Pichola and was built in 1740 as a summer retreat, taking advantage of the cooling lake breezes. The Taj group took over in the Sixties, and the hotel has since become standard postcard (and Bond film) material.The standard rooms face ...

Ksar Char-Bagh

Just fifteen minutes outside of Marrakech is an upscale district called the Palmeraie, a thousand-year-old palm-grove oasis in the midst of a dry desert landscape straight out of The Sheltering Sky. It is here that Marrakech's new breed of mini-palace hotels has sprung up — of w...

Chateau De Mirambeau

Please note: Chateau de Mirambeau is closed November through February. This Renaissance-style castle looks like a vision from a storybook, all cylindrical towers topped with spires, half of it from the 17th century and the rest dating back to the 12th. And the surroundings are n...

Keswick Hall At Monticello

Just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Keswick Hall at Monticello is built in the Italianate style that has become synonymous with the dignified old American South. Professional old-world service meets house-guest intimacy; this place feels like a frie...