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There’s nothing like the heartbreak of a bad hotel room. The bellman opens the door to your room with a little flourish, “after you!” And once you’re inside, reality hits. The room is dark, the windows sit right above honking traffic, the furniture looks like it’s been around since the Bush Presidency — Bush senior.…
Twenty floors high and offering 229 rooms, The St. Regis New York is one of the most iconic hotels in the world. Built by John Jacob Astor IV, the richest person on the Titanic when it sank, it opened its doors in 1904. Just four blocks south of Central Park, the five-pearl hotel has played…
The Travaasa Hana, overlooking Hana Bay, delivers rustic luxury in the middle of Maui’s lush, secluded east coast. Guests can expect incredible service, a top spa, excellent food, a long list of stuff to do, and only 70 rooms on acres of uncrowded property. The rooms are large, clean, sleekly furnished — and purposefully stripped…
Part of the boutique Affinia chain, Fifty NYC is an upscale property located in Manhattan’s Midtown East. The hotel draws business professionals and families looking for apartment-style rooms near tourist sites like Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and Central Park. Though rooms have always been spacious by New York standards (325 to 650 square feet), they…
The upscale Two Bunch Palms Resort and Spa in Palm Springs is renowned for its gorgeous 77 acres, replete with various wellness-centric amenities; there are pools, a meditation lake, a yoga dome, and tai chi classes, to name a few. Though it’s a beloved historic property (Al Capone apparently used to hide out here), the…
Opening in 1912, before the city of Beverly Hills even existed, The Beverly Hills Hotel established itself as one of Los Angeles’ top luxury properties. Back in the day, its popular Polo Lounge attracted the likes of Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor, and stars such as Marilyn Monroe lived in the hotel’s bungalows for months…
The Royalton White Sands Resort in Jamaica, which opened in late 2013, has had a few past lives — it was formerly the Breezes Trelawny, and before that, the Starfish Trelawny. Many resort developers might have shied away from making a luxury resort out of a worn-down budget all-inclusive, but not Blue Diamond Hotels and…
Palm Springs is a glamorous getaway for many Los Angeles residents wanting to spend a weekend at the spa. This year, Two Bunch Palms Resort and Spa completed a multimillion-dollar renovation to bring their four-pearl property out of the past and into the Botox-friendly present With a nearly complete overhaul of the rooms and restaurant,…
We can’t believe this is the same hotel! The Hotel Wailea in Maui underwent a $15 million renovation this year, and we’re blown away by the results. We’ve seen a lot of renovations in our day, and oftentimes the hotels don’t really change all THAT much — they try to pass off some soft upgrades…