We would describe this renowned, multi-award- winning property as a charming pied-à-terre and the use of the French word is no accident. in fact, the Lowel...
This gay-owned, upgraded, private homestay isn’t our typical luxury hotel experience, but it certainly added a fabulous, unique dimension to our visit to Marfa...
If art and 20th-century minimalism are characteristic of Marfa, the Hotel Saint George personifies the town perfectly. After all, the independent property feat...
We’ve learned that West Hollywood is the sort of place where both residents and visitors have travelled the world and experienced the very best. So it’s no acc...
One of our favourite neighbourhoods in NYC has long been the East Village– an area brimming with personality and the home and playground of New York’s unconven...
Everyone’s talking about the ‘new New York’ and at the heart of all this hype is the revitalised Lower Manhattan area.A couple of years ago, we were thrilled t...
Like the city it’s located in, Loews Regency is a no-nonsense hotel that clearly means business. Going into this smart Park Avenue hotel, set close to the sout...
It’s impossible to visit this grande dame of New York City hotels without an overwhelming sense of déjà-vu taking over you. After all, for over 60 years it has...
As the New York socialite saying goes, ‘get
you a man who can do both’. If that’s what you’re looking for, the
Knickerbocker is your man – well, hotel. Nestled...
Nothing says old-world Upper East Side eclectism louder than the Pierre – one of the true Fifth Avenue grandes dames. The property’s classic charm remains unch...
Staying in Downtown may not be the leisure traveller’s first choice on a visit to New York City, but it actually has its benefits. It is surprisingly easy to g...
Formerly the darling of Wall Street wolves because of its proximity to the Financial District, this once-starchy property is changing things a little with the ...
With traditional charm and killer views over Central Park, this hotel made us feel at home. In fact, the demeanour of the team there was geared towards us bein...
This Beaux-Arts hotel is quite a name to drop
– Astor, Dalí, Old King Cole. Okay, so we spent a lot of time in the property’s
lauded bar, but the rest of the h...
With elegant rooms in a luxurious house on a
brownstone-lined street, the Athénée feels like an intimate, boutique hotel,
despite holding 140 keys and being th...
A story of old meets new unfurls in this 19th-century building, with its topiary-peppered Italian courtyard and opulent marble staircase. The Lotte has become ...
Perched high above Columbus Circle, this
Asian-inspired hotel, complete with wood panels, marble floors and artworks
inspired by nature, offers luxuriously zen...
The first time we stayed here, some six years ago, the service was so bad it became our benchmark for how not to run a hotel. On our arrival, the front-desk st...
Saint Paul has just a handful of accommodation options, so we stayed in its twin city, Minneapolis. Located in the historic Downtown and one of its most enduri...
We’re probably guilty of overusing the term ‘urban oasis’ to describe the city hotels we stay in, but this time it’s perfectly apt. Stepping off the indust...
The Chamberlain is one of our go-to landmark hotels in the US. It’s not grand or opulent, but we love the fact that being tucked away in the laid-back, leafy N...
Ask just about anyone in the Windy City and they’ll be able to tell you exactly where the Peninsula is. Nestled in one whole block, literally held up by Tiffany...
We like to ‘get local’ when we visit a city – and after our time spent at this chic, masculine Kimpton hotel, we certainly felt we had. Our spacious, beautifull...
Resorts West offers luxuriously appointed private homes and lodge condos in choice Park City and Deer Valley locations with features including fully fitted gour...
They say whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but the Signature at MGM Grand – a glitzy, towering temple to entertainment just off the strip – are somethin...
On wandering into the Westhouse on 55th Street, we wondered if we had stumbled into a prohibition-era speakeasy – we’re told that we were spot on, as that was w...
If there is such a thing as heaven for experiential travellers in Manhattan, hanging out in the vicinity of Howard Street in NYC’s Chinatown, would be it. Where...
Our digs at St. Petersburg pink palace, the Vinoy, was an adequate choice for our trip to discover this Floridian city. The hotel wins on location, situated per...
Built to house the growing number of ne’er-do-wells attracted to Galena in its heyday as a lead-mining town, this imposing fortress-like building would have bee...
We can’t say that we’ve ever really had the urge to throw a TV out of a hotel window. But when in West Hollywood ... just kidding. In any case, we actually cou...
We loved this property’s 19th-century, retro-vintage vibe, with the scent of leather and tobacco in the air, dark wood and gentlemen’s racquets club feel. No ac...
If you don’t fancy playing politician and staying in Springfield on your visit, take a leaf out of our book and go ‘royal’ instead. In just under an hour’s driv...
If you’re stopping on your road trip, drop into Bloomington and experience the Vrooman. It’s a great way to down-pace in a magical, old setting and experience t...
Locals will proclaim this as the return of an icon. A chic temple to minimalism, this once Ian Schrager-owned hotel has been given a new lease of life under wha...
This stunning Mies van de Rohe construction is no doubt a national treasure and we think it is one of the finest pieces of architecture in the state. You’ll be ...
An eclectic piece of what you’d usually see in NYC in Chi-town (no accident because this is the younger sister of the NYC Downtown property) the James has a gr...
Hospitality moguls Virgin have extended their international clubhouse concept to Chicago with this buzzy, urban-cool property – no mean feat when you’re dealing...
This gay-owned and managed heritage homestay injects a warm personality into Galena’s old-world feel. It features five delightfully appointed rooms and we thoro...
The gentlemen who own Irish Hollow strive to bring – in their own words – a crisp and crunchy, warm and fuzzy, yet sparklingly refreshing experience to hospital...
The golden ‘peacock gate’ at street level of the Palmer House Hilton is a dead giveaway to what lies behind the doors of this unassuming downtown Chicago buildi...
Miami has had a long history of reinvention. Nearly a hundred years after it first opened, the iconic Traymore has, as they say in Miami, “had some work done.” ...
Straddling both sides of san Juan’s sophisticated Condado strip with its high-end fashion outlets and restaurants, the Condado Plaza Hilton commands a prime loc...
Spread across 500 acres atop a 300-foot bluff on the eastern tip of Puerto Rico, El Conquistador resort & Las Casitas Village overlook the converging waters...
Sometime in the last decade came a turning point for Washington D.C.
The city, long known for its sophistication and elegance, revealed a much more vibrant a...
Washington D.C. is an interesting place to be in the reign of Trump. It’s a city that’s trying to shift its tourism story away from the usual ‘corridors of powe...
The success of AKA, the brand of exclusive, high-end apartments that come complete with the personalised service of a luxury hotel, is perhaps signalling the fu...
Silicon-valley millionaires mix with social-media fashionistas at this country-club style property. A team of cute staff in crisp polo shirts and starched short...
Belmond is synonymous with taking something from the majestic, golden-age of hospitality and injecting luxurious, modern vigour into it; and the Belmond El Enca...
On our ascent to the chic and lofty heights of Nob Hill, we were faced with a whimsical Straits-Chinese, boudoir fantasy – a happy confusion (not Confucian) of ...
This is one of those properties with a reputation that precedes it. Everywhere we went in California, the mere mention that we were visiting was followed by a j...
