Just a few blocks from New York’s Madison Square Garden lies the Ace Hotel. It’s located at 20W 29th Street, where the successful Hotel Breslin stood in 1904. The Ace is a 12-story boutique hotel with 269 rooms and a passion for classic vintage; interiors were designed by Roman & Williams, mixing objects, lighting and finishes from different eras to reflect a sense of unconventionality, simple elegance and freedom. Continue reading →

The Almdorf Seinerzeit is a charming mountain retreat close to the Austrian Nockberge National Park. It looks as if it was taken out of a children’s fairytale, with its charming, chocolate-box village, 20 traditional mountain huts, bathing house, two ponds, and all the fresh air you can imagine. Continue reading →

For this item you have to imagine background music of soft drum beats and jungle sounds, the smell of campfires, fresh foliage and scented candles and Meryl Streep dressed for “Out of Africa” walking towards you. Or you can just look at the pictures to see that the tents at Clayoquot Wilderness Resort are a perfect setting for discerning grown-ups with an adventurous side. Continue reading →

This luxurious tree lodge is nestled in a remote mahogany forest in Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. Romantically exclusive with only 10 elegantly intimate stilted treehouse suites, the lodge features warm wood interiors, comfortable sitting rooms, wide open private decks and massive window areas opening up to the lush forest, elegant ensuite bathrooms and a sparkling outdoor swimming pool – a piece of heaven in the wild. Continue reading →

The Homestead is located in the Phinda Game Reserve, an award-winning ecotourism destination in the lush KwaZulu-Natal region in northern South Africa. This luxurious African villa embraces the surrounding bush and invites it in through the use of glass, openness, a lateral plan form with courtyards, ponds and narrow decks. Continue reading →

I love the city of Amsterdam, and when a new attraction presents itself in the area, what better excuse to take a few days off and go check it out. Located just 12 minutes by train from the center of Amsterdam, the new Inntel hotel is literally a temporary home for traveling guests. Inspired by the traditional green wooden houses of the Zaan region, this extraordinary boutique hotel is build up from almost 70 individual small houses, perfectly stacked, one on top of the other in four shades of green. Continue reading →

The Pearl is a boutique hotel near downtown San Diego with a vintage-modern style, offering 23 guestrooms, fresh California Coastal cuisine, and an outdoor lounge and theater featuring weekly ‘Dive-In Movies’ projected onto a 10′ x 13′ foot projection screen with full sound, overlooking an oyster-shaped swimming pool. Continue reading →

Designed by Tokyo-based company Design Studio S, the Nine Hours (9h) is a unique boutique hotel in Kyoto, Japan. The hotel offers luxury and minimalist aesthetics in a tiny living space, featuring 125 rooms (hmmm… capsule units), personal lockers, showers, and a lounge. Continue reading →

Within a three hour flight from LA, accompanied by a quick drive and a boat ride, the beautiful hillside boutique resort of Verana awaits you in Yelapa’s lush Mexican jungle. This remote and secluded resort has a wonderful location, overlooking the ocean with a panoramic view of the mountains deep in the Valle del Sierra Madre Occidental. Continue reading →

Here’s another affordable boutique hotel for you to check out, only this time we’re in the fabulous district of south Kensington, London. Just a short walk from Earls Court or Gloucester Road tube stations lies base2stay – London’s alternative to boutique and budget hotels. Continue reading →