Washington's first W Hotel actualizes designer Dianna Wong's impression of DC culture: a lot of power and pleasure. "Ultimately, the more power you have, the more pleasure you get," she says. To sta...
Whenever I write about a new or interesting accommodation in my city, I often think "I'm going to play tourist and stay here for a night." Then reality sets in and I think of hundreds of ways the m...
While I was on a week long vacation on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina last week I was unpacking all of my belongings as if I was actually moving in for good. Much to my surprise, I wasn't alone...
Writing this while I'm sitting in a hotel on the beach doesn't necessarily make me wish I was someplace far, far away such as Poland. However, comparing white wicker furniture to designer guest roo...
Rustic elegance + complete serenity = my idea of heaven. As Great Escapes month comes to a comes to a close, I'm inviting you to my favorite cyber-getaway, Veracruz's Hotel Azucar, which was clearly...
As Great Escape month winds down, I've started thinking about my own escape soon to come. It's about time I began sifting through the bookmarked websites and saved magazine clippings and start plan...
While attempting to track down a rickety old hostel that I stayed in during a visit to Prague a number of years ago, I instead managed to stumble across the gorgeous interiors of Hotel Neruda. The p...
A few years back, I spent a couple weeks traveling along the Florida coast. After a week on a friend's sailboat in the Keys, it was time to head to our next destination — the Everglades. One...
It's summer time and anyone who lives in a city knows these concrete jungles can get sweltering, and the in-town hotels are usually packed. One of the many, many amazing things about living in an h...
Isabelle et Gérard Planchon gave up their respective legal and architecture practices in Belgium and opened an incredible guest house on the island of Djerba in Tunisia — the largest island o...
I know what you're thinking... what qualifies a Marriott chain as a great escape? What could possibly be intriguing about, um, a Fairfield Inn? How about the fact that it's Baltimore's first offic...
It's no secret that DC is not known for boutique hotels bursting with quirky character, so the Hotel Tabard Inn stands out as quite an exception. As one of the city's oldest and most eclectically-st...
It's no surprise that in Fells Point — a waterfront neighborhood still lined with cobble stone streets and steeped in maritime history — you would find a boat and breakfast. Yes, I said...
I was once invited to a place that took me back to another era as soon as I walked in the door. Warm light filled the space and after I was stuffed full of amazing appetizers, all I wanted to do wa...
If you're planning to visit the DC area anytime soon with your beloved pet, you might want to check out the Hotel Palomar just across the river in Arlington VA. This Klimpton hotel caters to pet ow...
We travel a lot for work, and one of our favorite elements of travel is checking out hotel room design. The best hotel rooms provide a tranquil oasis that helps ease the pain of air travel today; o...
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