contents 06/08
Photographs (clockwise from top): Courtesy of Qualia, Courtesy of Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, Coliena Rentmeester.
June’s Best Deals
+ 21 deals in the U.S. and Canada
+ 7 deals in the Caribbean, Bermuda & the Bahamas
+ 5 deals in Mexico, Central & South America
+ 7 deals in Europe
+ 6 deals in Asia
+ 3 deals in Africa & the Middle East
+ 1 deal in Australia
= 50 Exclusive Hotel Deals
Departments
- Letters
- Editor’s Note
- Embracing your home on the road
- Ask T+L
- My Favorite Place: Alain Ducasse
- The star chef behind Adour and Benoit in New York City returns to Biarritz, where he got his start.
- Smart Traveler
- How to avoid hidden hotel charges
- Strategies
- Best new budget hotels
Stylish Traveler
- Keys to the Carlyle
- A peek inside New York's exclusive address—and what to bring to dress the part.
- Spotlight
- Christian Louboutin, Shoe Designer
- Icon: Hotel-Chic Pajamas
- Looking for an overnight upgrade? Slip into a set of Frette pajamas.
Find Out More
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- Vote for America’s Favorite Cities
- Share your opinion on 25 great U.S. cities, from dining to people-watching, and enter to win the trip of a lifetime!
- It List 2008: The World’s Best New Hotels
- T+L’s editors’ picks of the hottest new places to stay.
10 Best Cruises for Families - A cruise-lover’s guide to the latest family programs, hottest onboard features, insider ship tips, and summer cruise deals.
Great American Beaches - The best U.S. beaches—from tranquil to clubby, and from terrestrial marvels to watery wonders.
World’s Best Treehouse Hotels - Ten lofty adventures, from beautiful beachfronts to remote rainforests.
Top Spots for Cheap Luxury Hotels - Five-star oceanfront rooms for $129 a night? Luxury Hawaii for $79 a night? These can be yours with a secondhand timeshare (yes, timeshare).
- World's Best Service
- Uncovering the best hotels, airlines, outfitters, cruise lines, and spas for service.
- T+L City Guides
- Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis
- California Hotels: Casual Elegance
- The Golden State is home to some of the most blissfully laid-back hotels in the country. T+L checks out six properties that deliver effortless hospitality, the intimacy of bungalows, and the lure of wide-open spaces.
- Hotel Paradise: Five Writers’ Stories
- Travelers’ tales from Gary Shteyngart, Guy Trebay, Marie Brenner, Mark Leyner, and Daphne Merkin.
- Luxury Hotel Housekeeper For a Day
- How does a renowned hotel in New York City maintain its stratospheric level of service? Patricia Marx walks a mile in housekeeping’s Hush Puppies to find out.
T+L Journal
- Robert De Niro’s New Hotel
- Robert De Niro's new hotel in NYC’s Tribeca—the Greenwich.
- Hotels’ New Custom Scents
- Hotels everywhere are using the subliminal power of scent.
- Hidden Paris Design Hotel
- Christopher Petkanas goes off the beaten path in Paris to check out a pint-size hotel with outsize design.
- Driving Portugal’s Wine Country
- Shane Mitchell winds her way through the sunbaked countryside of Portugal's Douro Valley, one manor house at a time.
- Reinventing the Ritz-Carlton
- Forget everything you think you know about the luxury hotel group; it’s all about to change.
- My Days at Saigon’s Hotel Continental
- Six months at Saigon’s most famous hotel.
Insider
- Affordable Argentina
- Intimate, design-driven hotelitos are opening throughout Buenos Aires. We’ve uncovered four neighborhood favorites that deliver style without sacrificing value.
- St. Bart’s: A Timeline
- How this speck of volcanic rock has become the ne plus ultra of Caribbean glamour.
- Discovering New Orleans’ Victorian Lounge
- At the Columns Hotel, the Victorian Lounge serves up mixed drinks (and company) in the Garden District.
- Going Chic in Washington, D.C.
- Change has come to the capital thanks to a handful of chic new hotels, shops, and bars.
- Trend: Innovative Hotel Amenities
- Around the world, hotels are introducing a host of ways to make travelers feel right at home.
- Day in the Life: Managing the Peninsula Hong Kong
- What does it take to run one of Asia’s top hotels? T+L tags along with Rainy Chan, general manager of The Peninsula Hong Kong.
