When your hotel been awarded as “#1 in Vancouver” and “Best Service & Value in Canada” by Travel & Leisure Magazine readers, as well as “No. 2 Hotel in Canada” by Condé Nast Traveler, you can rest assured that the Wedgewood Hotel in Vancouver is one very special and intimate boutique. After all, it looks…
The Sky Hotel lies at the base of the majestic, snow-capped mountains at Aspen and a snowball’s throw from stellar shopping and restaurants. Not a bad address for snowboarding, skiing, apre-skiing and such. It’s the type of place you’d see scores of very tall women who all look like models walking around in sheepskin boots,…
In this city that’s teeming with nightlife and style, there are thousands of hotel rooms, from cheapo to chic. The Metropolitan comes highly recommended as Bangkok’s chicest boutique and newest hot spot. Here, business travellers and tourists will find an east-west aesthetic. Staff members are dressed in Yohji Yamamoto uniforms. Yoga mats are in every…
A few blocks from the Colosseum, in the oldest part of Roma, is the Four-Star Hotel Ripa All Suites. Built in 1973, but boldly and minimalistically restyled by King Roselli Architetti in 1998, it’s one of the most innovative and best architectual expressions of Rome’s new international style. The suites here look quite sweet. As…
Imagine yourself in a hotel so hip, so cool, so utterly fashionable, that you feel like you’re dressed for a soccer game when everyone else is dressed for dinner. That’s how my pal and Vagablond co-founder Branden felt at the Hotel Rialto, Warsaw’s only boutique hotel with 44 well-appointed and uniquely designed rooms. In fact,…
Boston has hundreds, if not thousands, of historic buildings, so it’s refreshing to find a new-fangled boutique hotel like The Onyx –– a one-of-a-kind Kimpton Hotel with an energy, personality and pulse of its own. The Onyx Hotel offers luxury accommodations in the neighborhood featuring the TD Banknorth Garden (Fleet Center), Faneuil Hall and North…
For price, style, location and convenience, the Honigmond Garden Hotel is one of Berlin’s most popular boutique hotels. With its uber trendy Mitte neighborhood location, you’re just a short bus ride or walk from one of the Kastanienallee district. You’re also a block from the shops on Friedrichstrasse. The Honigmond offers gorgeous stylish apartments, a…
Another Hip Hotel from The Cool Hunter: From the street, its glass and metallic facade looks like a space-age slot machine. But the new boutique Una Hotel Bologna is anything but a gamble. Located in front of the central station, near the historic and trade fair centres of this people-friendly town in north-central Italy, Una…
Gwyneth Paltrow slept here. So can you if you’ve got $200 – $500 Canadian. At this great rate, the Hotel Godin in Montreal is very affordable for US and European travelers who want something hip, splashy and sassy. It’s a boutique hotel, a designer hotel, a 4-star hotel, and a lot more for a lot…
Canmore has fast become the place to go in the Rocky Mountains. Only about 20 minutes from the busier Banff, it has grown to offer all conveniences of Banff, but has avoided the large crowds. Mytic Springs is the newest boutique hotel in the area. The intimate resort has been receiving rave reviews.