“Fresh Picks” features the latest luxury properties admitted into the Kiwi Collection. This week, we take a peek inside Song Saa Private Island.
Read More...Feb 21, 2012
Hotel Intel: Gayana Eco Resort Makes March 22 to April 22 Marine Awareness Month
For the Gayana Eco Resort in Malaysia, it’s not all honeymoons and three-hour spa services. They also work to reverse receding coral reefs and Giant Clam populations. Starting March 22, they’ll celebrate these undersea things with Marine Awareness Month (psst, there’s a party!).
Read More...Feb 20, 2012
Proust Travel Questionnaire: Matthew Marden, Details Magazine
New Hampshire-raised Matthew Marden lives in New York City and is Fashion Market Director for Details Magazine, a role that takes him near and far looking for the latest and greatest. Recovering from a recent fury of fashion weeks around the globe, he took time to fill out our Proust-inspired questionnaire.
Read More...Feb 17, 2012
Around the Web: Google Street View Goes to New Places, Surf’s Up in Sydney and Michael Kors’ Vacation Spot
We’ve got both New York fashion and New South Wales frothy waves on the brain. Good thing Google Street View is taking armchair travel to new depths. Click in for our weekly web round-up.
Read More...Feb 17, 2012
Vid Trippin’: Experience Freedom
Something about adding cinematic music and slo-mo to footage of people hurling themselves off rock faces and out of planes almost makes us want to do it. Almost.
Read More...Feb 16, 2012
City Travel Guide: Whistler to Win Her Over
So you failed to deliver on Valentine’s Day expectations. Just for the sake of this one story, let’s make the preposterous assumption that you’re a man. Here’s some relationship math you’re going to like: you and her plus the ski resort town of Whistler, B.C., equals bliss for you both. Click in for the itinerary.
Read More...Feb 16, 2012
Kiwi Experts: Daniel Szelényi’s 5 Favorite Hotels
Every Thursday, a different Kiwi Expert dishes on their five favorite hotels. Up next is Daniel Szelényi, VP of Hotel Relations for Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Multilingual too, the man can gab about hotels in German, Hungarian, French, Spanish and English. Let’s go with the latter today.
Read More...Feb 15, 2012
Ambassador Hotel Review – The Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur
Naomi Watts consistently receives rave reviews and accolades for her roles in such films as 21 Grams, Fair Game, and J. Edgar. And she passes on the rave reviews to The Oberoi Rajvilas in Jaipur, India based on her stay there. She says it might just be her #1 favorite hotel. Read the rest of her glowing review.
Read More...Feb 15, 2012
Fresh Picks: Haute, Historic, Homey Hotels
“Fresh Picks” features the latest luxury properties admitted into the Kiwi Collection. This week, we take a peek inside three hotels that feel like home. More specifically, they’re homey in that “I’m an aristocrat with a large country home” kind of way.
Read More...Feb 14, 2012
Destination Dispatches: Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom, a Break with Tradition
Danced by 180 debutantes in front of 12,000 guests, the Wiener Walzer or Viennese waltz opens the Vienna Opera Ball held every February. On another stage, a very different dancer made his debut with radically new moves. French architect Jean Nouvel, with his work Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom.
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