Cruising Again by November? Industry Association Lays Out Formula to Start Sailing
You might be on a cruise in the Caribbean before the holidays. Cruising in the Americas – that’s the cruise region for the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America - could begin again in about a month’s time, if significant industry...
3 New, Impossibly Picturesque Boutique Hotels That Make it Easy to Dream About Your Next Trip to Europe
France. Italy. Spain. If you’re imagining traveling again to Europe, you’ll have no problem picturing yourself in any of three independent boutique hotels that have just opened in spectacular historic properties. All three belong to the Small Luxury Hotels of...
Revealed for the 1st Time: This Hotel’s Famous Cookie Recipe
Challenging times call for fresh-baked cookies. For your COVID-19 #StaySafeStayHome pleasure, a cookie recipe for all the home baking and snacking we hear everyone is enjoying during lock down.Not just any cookie recipe. These are cookies of legend.They are the welcoming...
Santa Fe: Falling in Love with the Many Charms of “The City Different”
IT DIDN’T TAKE US LONG to realize why Santa Fe is dubbed, The City Different. For starters, it is an old city — older than the USA itself. And, at 7,000 feet, the nation’s highest state capital. Here, the history...
Soaring on the Slopes
Where the snow is perfect, the hills are fabulous and the après ski fun is as hot as the snow is cold: Park City, Utah; Lake Tahoe, Nevada; and Whistler, British Columbia. Park City Perfection IF YOU LOVE SKIING but don’t want...
O:LV Fifty Five & O:live Boutique – Stylish, fashionable luxury in San Juan
These sister hotels in the upscale Condado neighbourhood of San Juan offer two unique styles, featuring stunning art and design with gorgeous rooms and divine public spaces. Just a block apart, and owned by an award-winning husband and wife design...
Cruising with History on Sea Cloud
At sea on the 64-guest windjammer Sea Cloud you might find yourself wishing the walls could talk. Built as a yacht by a cereal heiress nearly 90 years ago, the ship hosted heroes and despots, royalty and celebrities, and a...
Staying Places: Hotel X – A Modern, Urban Resort Hotel in Toronto
Toronto has a hip new hotel close to Lake Ontario within the historic Exhibition grounds, offering guests an urban vibe, a luxe sensibility as well as fantastic city views, gorgeous rooms, and varying dining options. Hotel X, the first Toronto...
A Safari with Significance
TRUE DARKNESS has just taken over, the last streaks of the sunset fading from orange, to pink, to blue and then– inky black. The Sundowner drinks have been packed away, the limes stowed, the biltong back in its container, and...
Seduced by Sri Lanka
EARLIER IN THE MORNING, we’d boarded the blue train in Kandy for the seven-hour journey – considered one of the world’s most beautiful train rides – to the mountain village of Ella. After three days of hiking and touring tea...
You Are Very Welcome in Jordan
When my flight landed in Amman at 1:35am, I was tired and mildly concerned about making my way through customs, finding my driver and retrieving my luggage – such are the joys of international travel. I needn’t have worried. There, smiling broadly...
Getting Personal with California Gray Whales
THE MEXICAN FISHERMAN operating our Panga, a small fiberglass fishing boat, knew what he was doing as he scanned the horizon. With keen eyes, he was looking for signs of California gray whales. He pointed. My fellow guests and I...
