Author: Janice Nieder

Before entering the pearly gates, you owe it to yourself to experience a week of sheer, unadulterated, pampered bliss at the Golden Door, referred to by those in the spa-know…

And Landor & Hawa also throws in simple yet sophisticated designer styling at bargain basement prices. What’s not to love? It all started with their IT-0-1 collection: the lightest upright,…

Marvin Hamlisch After a very dark 21 years, the renown Fairmont Venetian Room (where Tony Bennett first sang “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” ) is once again up…

I’ve never gone to Vegas in the summer by choice, but after a couple of weeks of the cold gray stuff that’s been blanketing San Francisco, I jumped at the…

Sparkling Hill Resort and Wellness Hotel, a brand new destination spa in the unlikely location of Vernon, British Columbia, is taking the spa/wellness world by storm. This 152-room spa is…

Lausanne Cathedral I would never be caught dead in an airport again if all train travel was as efficient as Switzerland’s. It was a thing of beauty to just whip…

Sonesta Moon Goddess I’m not what one would call a cruise lover. Actually, I usually dislike them intensely. Everything from the mediocre all-you-can-eat buffets to the substandard “talent” shows leaves…

The Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin’s luxurious 5 star hotel which embraces not one, but three Michelin-starred restaurants, Gourmet Restaurant Lorenz Adlon, Restaurant Gabriele, and MA Restaurant. Foodies may indulge in…

The wealthy Pasha who used to live in this mansion would have loved what the current owner has done to Les Ottomans, an extravagantly restored manor house perched on the…