Hotel Reviews
Adele & Jules Boutique Hotel. A taste of delightful BOHO ambience in Paris.
It’s not often you hear of a new happening neighbourhood in Paris, but one comes along every few years when you’re not looking. You may think of Grands Boulevards merely as the great wide traffic artery where the big department stores are located, but a whole new world is springing up to the east around the city’s latest boutique hotel, Adele & Jules.
Read the full story hereThe Inn and Spa at Loretto
Given that the two most important attributes for a Santa Fe hotel are location and local ambience, The Inn And Spa At Loretto has it over pretty well all its rivals. It’s just a block from the Plaza which is the centre of town life and on the prettiest, southernmost side. And despite its good looks, it’s very fairly-priced in a city where many lesser properties charge more and deliver less.
Read the full story hereHotel Chavanel. Exquisite design.
In the chic Hotel Chavanel, Paris has the very property for which the phrase “small but perfectly-formed” could have been conceived. The frontage, a couple of minutes’ walk from the Madeleine, is so narrow you could walk by and miss it,
Read the full story hereHotel Shangri-La Paris. Stunning Eiffel Tower Views.
In a city awash with five-star hotels, a new entry with a slightly off-centre location needs an irresistible proposition to draw the well-heeled. Napoleon is not a bad name to throw around, nor is having the Eiffel Tower on your doorstep. Chinese owners of the Hotel Shangri-La Paris have done a good, if difficult job, of combining French grande luxe with Asian antiquities in this hotel built in 1896 as the private residence of Napoleon III’s great-nephew, Prince Roland.
Read the full story hereAlmaLusa Boutique Hotel. Experience an urban luxury retreat
I’m in the haven-like Praca do Municipio, just next door to Al fama in the Baixa-Chiado neighbourhood, the home of the AlmaLusa boutique hotel, Lisbon’s latest luxury urban hideaway, a perfect sanctuary for those of us who have had our fill of sardines for one night.
Read the full story hereHotel Valley Ho. An architectural beauty in Scottsdale.
Frank Lloyd Wright would have been proud of the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona. This desert town sprawling eastwards from Phoenix is where the visionary architect made his last home, Taliesin West, still one of the area’s prime cultural attractions.
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