If you’ve ever been to Cancun’s Riviera Maya, you know it’s like Honolulu’s Waikiki or Miami Beach — a long string of massive hotels with tropical ocean views. The Hotel Basico is different. With only 15 rooms, it’s casual, hip and eco-friendly, so it’s anything but massive. It features a seafood restaurant. Its rooms have…
It’s a crime this trendy boutique hotel chain only has one U.K. hotel that was converted from a local historic prison. But that’s the steal of a deal with Malmaison. This quirky property takes no prisoners and has 94 converted prison cells that are now deluxe rooms and suites. Unique in-room details include: • Freestanding…
I’ve stayed in everything from huge hotels in skyscrapers with thousands of rooms to mid-sized resorts with dozens of suites to a bedroom in a European family’s pensione. But I’ve never heard of a one-room hotel before. So while Simon and Susanah Page’s Moog Hotel is called a one roomer, it’s really a suite of…
The Côte d’Azur is one of the most famous stretches of beach in Europe — or anywhere else for that matter. Is this prime real estate? Is Cannes in France? Both are rhetorical questions. The Eden Hotel is a luxury boutique with just elegant 42 rooms, a contemporary and modern design, and a locale jsut…
When it opened in July, the new Lux 11 hip hotel in Berlin’s hip Mitte district scored points for its location near the city’s best boutiques and restaurants. But wait, it gets better. Much better. Because Lux 11 — more than a boarding house than a hotel with 72 apartments — will unveil an Italian-Asian…
Kimptom Hotel Group of San Francisco is a unique collection of lifestyle hotels created with their guests in mind. Their motto is that a hotel should have character, personality, and a soul of its own. To that end, Kimpton is launching its own online shopping Web site and catalog at www.kimptonstyle.com. Here, guests can buy…
Driving past the Hotel Triton, one marvels at its unique location: across from Chinatown’s southern gate, two blocks from Nob Hill, and a few blocks from both Union Square shopping and the financial district. This hip haven features 140 bitchin’ rooms with flat screen TVs, CD players, free Wi-Fi, plus everything from A to Z:…
How do you define hip? What qualifies as a cool boutique hotel? What extra or special amenities must one offer to earn this nomenclature? Ask Herbert Ypma, creator of a series of well-illustrated travel books on boutique hotels. It’s called Hip Hotels and he has one for Italy, the Orient, Beaches, Escapes and Cities. Now,…
Mesh Magazine reports about a new boutique hotel a block from Union Square, the city’s center for fashionable shopping. It’s also on the edge of the Financial District and Chinatown. Hotel des Arts specializes in showcasing contemporary work by emerging and underground local artists in each of its 51 suites.
All the cool kids are swapping 5 star excellence for Bohemian chic. Well maybe just the ones that were born without a silver spoon. Places like Toca da Coruja in Brazil could tempt you away from even the most deluxe sweet at the Waldorf.
Hostel CELICA is a fully artistically renewed former prison on Metelkova street in the center of Ljubljana. The hostel is only 5 minutes walking distance from the main railway and bus station. Ljubljana with its 276,000 inhabitants is considered a city which suits everyone. It maintains the friendliness of a small town and at the…