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MILAN Fly in for a quick shopping tour and stay at the new 64-room Straf (3 Via San Raffaele; 39-02/805-081; www.straf.it; doubles from $321). In this style-obsessed city, there are tempting stores on practically every corner, but the insider favorite for marked-down Prada is 10 Corso Como (3 Via Tazzoli; 39-02/2901-5130); grab a cocktail at Martini Bar in the Dolce & Gabbana men's store (15 Corso Venezia; 39-02/7601-1154).
SANTO DOMINGO JetBlue (www.jetblue.com) recently started service to the capital of the Dominican Republic, where Christopher Columbus landed more than five centuries ago. Stay in the explorer's shadow (or at least his enormous statue's shadow) at the 104-room Sofitel Nicolas de Ovando (Calle Las Damas, Ciudad Colonial, Santo Domingo; 809/685-9955; www.sofitel.com; doubles from $177), once the mansion of Spain's first governor general in the West Indies.
MONTE CARLO Thanks to eight-hour nonstop flights from the East Coast to Nice, Monte Carlo is now an easy getaway. Stay at the newly revamped Hôtel Métropole (4 Ave. de la Madone; 800/223-6800; www.metropole.mc; doubles from $488), scheduled to open this month with 146 remodeled rooms, an alfresco pool, and an ESPA spa with private hammams—all from designer Jacques Garcia, of Paris's Hôtel Costes.
—D.K.
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