Re-opening this month, the Hotel Valley Ho reminds me of a desert resort where the Rat Pack could have hung out in the celebrity hey day of Vegas or Palm Springs. This Scottsdale landmark is hip again, baby! Originally built in 1956, it was a popular destination for Bing, Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Ted…
For a romantic hideaway to an elegant, understated, serene resort, journey to the bucolic town of Santa Barbara, about 100 miles north of Hollywood & LA. Here, the Bacara Resort & Spa will take your breath away. Sitting on the beach and featuring a 42,000-sq.ft. spa with a 3,500-sq.ft. open air cardiovascular and strength-training center,…
I’m immersed up to my neck, bobbing like a cork in tea. Well, it’s not really tea, it just has that warm, amber color. Scooping it from the long porcelain tub with my hand, I take a sip. It’s fizzy and salty, like seltzer water. No wonder the Gideon Putnam Resort and Spa’s Website calls…
It’s now official… Jennifer Garland and Ben Affleck wed yesterday at the fabulous Parrot Cay Resort on the Turks & Caicos Island of Parrot Cay. Now isn’t that ironic? It’s near Providenciales, another island in the group with porcelein white sand where I proposed to my wife after staying in a neighboring swanky Caribbean resort.
At Wallpaper* Travel, the exquisitely crafted Website for Online Resource for International Design Interiors and Lifestyle, we saw their “Trading Host” Hotel blurb subtitled “Hotels: July’05.” We’d like to share its verbal snapshot of this resort on the Maylay Peninsula…
After outplaying, outwitting and outlasting “Survivor: All-Stars” in 2004, Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich got hitched in April at one of the world’s swankiest joints: Atlantis Resort. It’s no wonder Britney Spears stays here. So does Paris Hilton — and she doesn’t even get the Hilton Family discount.
The Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino is an 8-story, 413-room tropical oasis on Palm Beach. It features a fantastic location, the island’s largest guest rooms, cooling trade winds, the warm turquoise Caribbean Sea, an endless variety
“During my long walk to freedom, I had the rare privilege to visit Londolozi. There I saw people of all races living in harmony amidst the beauty that mother nature offers. Londolozi represents a model of the dream I cherish for the future of nature preservation in our country.” Nelson Mandela If it is good…
If you are looking for a holiday that is exotic, relaxing and secluded that La Lancha may be the place for you. Created, designed and owned by Francis Ford Coppola, you can rest assure that your privacy will be a priority. When the acclaimed director first visited Belize it was love at first sight. He…