If you’re going to Turino for the Winter Olympics in a few weeks –– or even if you’re not –– the city of Asolo in the Italian Alps is an oasis amid the chaos. Populated since the Neolithic period and located north of Venice, it was a Roman Municipality in the 1st century B.C. Still…
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…
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…
We’ve all stayed in airport hotels. They’re usually big chains with the usual room, a restaurant on the roof, and a convenient location at the terminal. But if you want some “aspirational luxury at a low cost,” this summer, the YO! Group will open a 40-room hotel at London’s Heathrow, followed by a 50-roomer at…
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…
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,…
A new underwater luxury hotel is set to open in October of 2006 in Dubai, Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. At Hydropolis, the pipe dream of German Architect Joachim Hauser, a one night stay will cost around US $5,500.
Apparently, jail houses rock. In Sri Lanka, Galle prison, a centuries-old UN World Heritage site, is being converted into a hotel. On June 16, The Daily News reported the plans of Kingsley Wickramaratne, governor of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, to develop the prison. The governor has said that rooms will be no-frills prison…
The only problem with Ritz-Carlton’s Bali Resort is that you might never want to leave the grounds to explore the country. You’ll be too busy sipping cocktails from a watermelon while you lounge by the ornate water-spouting stone statues of the infinity pool, or taking advantage of the resorts private secluded beach.