If you’ve never visited a Prada Store, don’t dare call yourself a luxury shopper. We toured their store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills last year. It’s part modern art museum, part boutique, and all Italian style. Now, Prada has opened its luxury retail store in a stylish building honored by the American Institute of…
Before the 1970’s cava was known as Spanish Champagne, that was before the E.U ruled that only wine produced in that specific area of Champagne in France could go by the name. It all started in the 1870’s, with a healthy intention of producing a sparkling wine to rival the French champagne but grown on…
As a native-born son, I enjoy walking around the different neighborhoods of San Francisco with 40 hills and bay views. Each has its own personality. But I’m not the only one who loves the streets of this city. The city is the most “walkable” in the nation, according to rankings released by WalkScore.com, a service…
Riverdene Lodge, is situated at the world renowned Shamwari Private Game Reserve near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It has been voted the best game reserve in South Africa for ten consecutive years. Riverdene Lodge provides a resort for families, with its newly renovated accommodation and its educational activities for children. By mid-July 2008,…
The big green thing you see in major US cities soon isn’t “The Incredible Hulk.” Because Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide just announced it’s introducing a new green hotel chain. Element is opening its first hotel in Lexington, Massachusetts, with others soon Irving and Houston, TX, plus Las Vegas, NV.
Quinto do Monte Hotel is 5* luxury surrounded by heavenly gardens in the Village of Monte in Madeira. With its wonderful climate stunning views and UNESCO protected areas this gorgeous little historical Manor Hotel has charmed the rich and famous for generations. For sub-tropical gardens, exquisite views and with Funchal City Centre only minutes away…
Now, there’s a different kind of dealer on the Las Vegas Strip. Lamborghini Las Vegas just announced the launch of a multi-billion dollar venture at the The Palazzo Resort Hotel and Casiono, bringing together five distinct Lamborghini properties — a car dealership, an exotic sports car gallery, a café, a retail boutique, and Dal Toro,…
La Pleta has put together one fun food-foraging package, where the lucky participants are guided by a local expert on three, half-day tours through the Val d’Aran forest in the Spanish Pyrenees, learning how and where to pick the best mushrooms, berries and snails. Each night you will enjoy a magnificent dinner with the delicacies…
My recent trip to New York led me in opposite directions for lodging. I spent a couple days in the W Times Square, a splashy Starwood hotel that still attracts the young and the pretty from this country and Europe. Then I spent a few days in the Helmsley Middletowne, a down-to-earth comfy old building….
Any sentence that uses the words “free” and “spa” together gets my attention. Rock Resorts, with properties in the Rocky Mountain West and Caribbean, is giving it away at all of their spas to celebrate their four newest. Book a stay at any of their properties for two nights or more, arriving by July 31,…
It’s still summertime and the livin’ is hopefully easy, but it’s also a good time to plan your winter getaways. Last February, I went on a 1,232 mile Northern Lights Cruise in Norway with Hurtigruten, and it was one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on — in more ways than one! The six-day…
If you’re addicted to golf (and I’ve been bitten by the bug, too) and have always yearned to play the British Isles or European courses on a golf vacation, Perry Golf is offering three special value tours to northwest Ireland, Wales and Spain’s Costa del Sol, for less than $3,000 each.