Hotel Review: Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews September 24, 2018
The Fairmont Kea Lani on the island of Maui stands on a sloping, 22-acre site which gently descends to the sands of Polo Beach and the Pacific Ocean.
Read moreAs did the Mandarin Oriental, its predecessor in the same building, the Loews Regency occupies the top 11 floors of a 48-story, two-tower building. Lingering touches of refined Asian hospitality remain part of the re-flagged hotel’s culture.
Read moreHotel Review: The Phoenician, Scottsdale, Arizona
Featured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews September 12, 2017
Located at the base of landmark Camelback Mountain, the Phoenician is set in a ruggedly beautiful landscape softened by verdant golf courses, ponds and swimming pools and punctuated with palm trees and tall Saguaro cacti – the green exclamation points of the Sonoran Desert.
Read moreScottsdale, Arizona – a Hometown Feel away from Home
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesFood and DrinkTravel Tips May 9, 2017
This sunny city of nearly a quarter-million, just east of Phoenix, has a decidedly ‘hometown’ feel, palpable even to travelers from far away.
Read moreReview: The Towers at Pacifica, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotels March 14, 2017
Review: Ocean Club Resort, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews February 6, 2017
According to the resort’s original owners, their strategy in locating the hotel was based on providing for its guests optimal views of the Turks and Caicos sunsets.
Read moreHotel Review: Claremont Club & Spa, Berkeley, California
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotels December 30, 2016
Fairmont’s recent refurbishment of the 276-room hotel catapulted the Claremont, which opened its doors in 1915, into the 21st century.
Read moreMunich Airport Looks for Third Runway to Open in 2022
AirportsDestinationsFeatured Articles April 29, 2016
Dr. Michael Kerkloh, president and CEO of Flughafen München GmbH, Munich Airport’s operating company, says that while the airport already has legal approval for construction of the third runway, construction remains “subject to [receiving] a political green light”.
Read moreHotel Review: Fairmont Scottsdale Princess
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews February 21, 2016
The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is a luxuriant, AAA 5 Diamond city resort spread over manicured grounds. The property is tucked into the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, near where 15 Major League Baseball teams warm up for the regular season.
Read moreReview: Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard, London
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews December 30, 2015
Occupying 19 floors in The Shard, a 1,016-foot-high skyscraper on the south bank of the Thames near London Bridge, the 5-star Shangri-La, which opened in May 2014, is the highest hotel in town.
Read moreReview: Hotel Café Royal, London
Featured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews December 13, 2015
Since opening its doors in 1865, the Café Royal has been a fixture of upmarket London social life, first as a long-lived, celebrity-haunted restaurant and bar, then as a nightclub and now as a stylish 5-star hotel that smartly enfolds the old café space.
Read moreReview: Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo
DestinationsFeatured ArticlesHotel ReviewsHotelsReviews September 3, 2015
The Chinzanso, while it inhabits a post-war building complete with a thrusting, 14-story tower, evokes an older, serene, nuanced style refined long ago in Japan. Some of that has to do with the Chinzanso’s location, far removed from central Tokyo and bordering a historic botanical garden.
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