After staying six days at a tourist camp in Belize‘s jungle — without electricity or hot water (but with a large tarantula living under the dining room) — transferring to the Mahogany Bay Resort and Beach Club was like emerging from a Belizean cave into the bright Caribbean sunshine. The white beaches, bright sunshine, blue skies and flowering trees seemingly in perpetual bloom here […]
A year ago, it was an unsightly city parking garage in midtown New York, massive and toneless. Today, the parking garage has disappeared without a trace. AC Hotel New York Times Square, a sleek addition to the theater district’s myriad accommodations, has risen from the rubble of the garage to […]
Standing in front of the white, boxy building in the Shepherd’s Bush section of London, the last thing you would expect it to be is a boutique hotel. But there it is, K West Hotel and Spa London, transformed from a BBC recording studio into a hip contemporary facility that […]
When hotel founder Bea Tollman was trying to think of a name for her group of luxury properties, now numbering 17 around the world, she remembered that the first time she met her husband-to-be, Stanley, he was wearing an elegant red carnation boutonniere. Thus was born the Red Carnation Hotels […]
When you hear that one of President Abraham Lincoln’s sons bought the property where the Wilburton Inn now sits, you begin to understand what makes this historic southern Vermont mansion so special. Robert Todd Lincoln and his fellow railroad industrialist friend Albert Gilbert bought farmland in the Battenkill Valley above […]
True to Hollywood style, a famous movie star recently underwent an extravagantly expensive facelift in the Caribbean after realizing the ravages of age had caught up with her… A two-year $40 million renovation, just completed, has given a new lease on life to the beloved El Embajador, a Royal Hideaway […]
In Italian, the word “eremito” means “hermit.” With careful forethought, “Eremito” is what wealthy entrepreneur Marcello Murzilli called his luxury hotel in the hills of Umbria opened just a few years ago. Alone on a hillside not far from Tuscany, Eremito looks as though it has been there for seven […]
What does it feel like to fly up to the town of Port Hardy, British Columbia, hop into a 1940’s era amphibious Grumman Goose plane, swoop up over the stunning Broughton Archipelago and soon splash down into Nimmo Bay, where guests at a wilderness retreat are starting the cocktail hour […]
