Imagine the ultimate luxury experience in New York. You walk out the front door of your apartment and make an instant decision: turn left and you’re on Park Avenue; turn right and you’re on Madison Avenue. Only a few feet from Hermes, Chloe, Dior and Harry Winston, within an hour you can be styled and accessorized [...]
Luxury Wine Retreats Around the World
Love wine and travel? Experience them both at one of these upscale wine resorts around the world: 1.K-Club, Ireland: It’s not all Guiness and mash in Ireland. The plush K-Club, located 30 minutes from Dublin, is a 69-bedroom hotel nestled among the rolling green hills. K Club’s wine cellar, originally built by Hugh Barton of [...]
Luxury Travel Destinations for 2012
With each year brings new ideas, plans and promises. Resolutions aside, travel is one of the best laid plans in the new year. The question is: will you actually plan that dream trip you’ve been talking about for the past year? As 2012 draws near, luxury travel network Virtuoso® asked its expert travel advisors to [...]
Hotel Spotlight: The Siam, Bangkok
From skyscrapers to villa retreats, new developments keep popping up in Thailand’s capital city, giving travelers a more diverse set of options when it comes to hotels. New to the scene: The Siam Hotel, which intends to keep luxury exclusive and bring a bit of recluse back to the city. The hotel is set to [...]
Everything Old is New Again: New York’s Historic Hotels
New York’s East Side is a story of wealth, glamour and greed. It’s home to some of the most iconic buildings in the city, as well as some of the most famous landmarks in the nation. Through the years, the East Side has seen its share of deceit and descent, but through its tumultuous past [...]
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Hotels
A Waltz Through Time: The Waldorf Astoria’s Starlight Roof
When I stepped into the historic room I was immediately transported to another time and place. The Starlight Roof at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City was an institution; a legend; the site of celebrities and debutantes, where romance oozed from the corners and love at first sight started from the moment the [...]
Lifestyle
Canyon Ranch, Miami: An Invitation to Relaxation
Before entering the treatment rooms at the spa at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, all guests are asked to choose a crystal rock from a bowl. The crystal stays with you throughout your stay. Each time you enter the spa you choose another crystal; each crystal has a different meaning. I chose the Tiger Eye – [...]
Lifestyle
Girl Meets Grizzly Bear
I was never what you would call an “adventure traveler.” I’ve tested my strength on white water rapids in Maine, camped with skunks on Grape Island near Boston (not a pleasant evening), and hiked some of the most beautiful trails in the U.S., but I wouldn’t file any of these under “adventure.” To me, adventure [...]
Travel
Eat, Pray, Love in the British Virgin Islands
If eating, praying and loving is the new way of traveling, then the British Virgin Islands are the meeting place for paradise. The trifecta: Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Necker Island – three islands that posses everything a traveler could want, from the finest food to the bluest oceans to the most private coves and caves, [...]
Lifestyle
Tutto va bene…
Sydney, Australia; Los Angeles, California; New York City; Shanghai, China; Hong Kong; Miami; Santa Monica; Bermuda; New York City (again); Toronto; Vancouver, Canada; Austin, Texas; Newport, Rhode Island; and back home again to Boston, Massachusetts. This year has taken me around the world and back again, and while not without its complications, this year has [...]
Hotels
Eloise Still Runs the Show at the Plaza Hotel
If Eloise were in her 30s and living at New York’s The Plaza hotel, I suspect her life would be something like this: The familiar bellman opens her car door as she pulls into the horseshoe drive on Fifth Avenue at Central Park South. She’s probably on her cell phone or thumbing through her iPhone, [...]
Hotels
Hotels That Make a Grand First Impression
Walking into a hotel for the first time is like meeting a blind date — first impressions count and if the hotel (or date, for that matter) doesn’t appeal it’s likely you won’t go back for seconds. Hotels hire the best of the best designers to create that unique first impression. Working with space, color, [...]
Luxury Travel
On a Balcony in Bermuda
The last place a single woman thinks about going when planning a weekend escape on her own is to a romantic island. After all, why would you pay to remind yourself of your solitude? It’s enough you don’t have someone to whisk you away for the weekend, right? Maybe you’re wrong. There’s something to be [...]
Lifestyle
Catwalk to Check-in: Fashion-Inspired Hotel Rooms
Fashion is fiercely personal. Style knows no limits and sets no expectations. It’s a feeling, a personal emotion and in some cases, a sense of security. If you are what you wear, and you are stylish, why not travel in style, too? The designer hotel fad was originally kicked off by Donatella Versace, who opened [...]
