Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo Icon
The Hotel de Paris, Monaco’s Belle Epoque beauty on the Riviera, piles up accolades like a roulette player on a roll raking in chips, and it’s not by luck or chance. The latest is Condé Nast Traveler’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards, naming it the Number One Hotel in Southern Europe, and that includes all of [...]
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Thalassotherapy à la Monte Carlo
The golden stone building in the shadow of Monte-Carlo’s grand Belle Epoque Casino and Hotel deParis looks more like a regal villa than a wellness center, but then, this is Monte-Carlo, where the therapeutic powers of sea water get the same architectural respect as the hotels and casinos of the fabled playground. Monte-Carlo was already [...]
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The Second Coming of The Pierre
The first Thursday night of every month, 2E, The Pierre’s new bar/lounge named for its address, 2 East 61st St., thrums to the beat of Rumor, a nightclub scene you’d think would be more at home in the East Village than the upper East Side hotel. No, The Pierre hasn’t lost its top drawer status, [...]
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Shakespearean Magic by the River Avon
Location, location—every hotel’s mantra. In Stratford-upon-Avon, The Arden Hotel takes it to the extreme. If it were any closer to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, it would be sharing the stage with King Lear and Falstaff. Stratford has had a Royal Shakespeare Theatre for over 75 years, but not like this new one. Scrapping virtually everything [...]
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Well-Manored in the Heart of England
The rolling hills of the Heart of England, where the Cotswolds meet Shakespeare country, is a fertile landscape for country house hotels. Add stylish rooms and a Michelin-starred kitchen, and you have Mallory Court, a triple threat Relais & Chateaux manor house in the Warwickshire hills near Stratford-upon-Avon. The entry drive rolls up to an [...]
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Upstairs (not Downstairs) in London’s Knightsbridge
Ten minutes after I checked into The Egerton House in Knightsbridge, the hotel surprised me with a cappuccino and biscuits in my cozy, café-au-lait-colored bedroom. I don’t think the color-coordinated welcome was intentional, but it wouldn’t surprise me, given the hotel’s well-deserved reputation for personal service. Very few areas of London are as filled with [...]
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Buckingham Palace Requests the Pleasure of Your Company
Royal watchers are already booking hotel rooms and flights just for the fun of being in London during the royal spring wedding. A glimpse of the royal carriage en route to Westminster Abbey! An imperial wave from the palace balcony! All possible, but not guaranteed. However, if they shifted their trip to August or September, [...]
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The Artful Hotel Beauchamps
New York’s Plaza Hotel has Eloise, the fictional six-year-old who roamed the famous hostelry in search of adventure. Not to be outdone, Hotel Beauchamps has Baltazar, an ageless, art-loving adventurer, equally fictitious, who roamed the world collecting exotic objects that now decorate one of Paris’ newest boutique hotels.
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Hotel Update: London’s One Aldwych
If there’s anything better than discovering that a favorite hotel hasn’t lost any of its magic, it’s finding that it has added some new tricks.
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An Artful Getaway
Just in time for the current art scene, the Hotel Palomar Philadelphia, a stylish upscale boutique hotel in the renovated Architects Building, in the historic Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, opened last fall. It’s not only Kimpton’s first in the city, it’s also the first hotel designed to receive a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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