Local couple Melanie Kratovil and Pliny Reynolds (owners of popular barbecue restaurant, Terlingua) have opened the new guesthouse, Best Bower, next to the Portland Observatory on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine. The elegant hotel, which is keyless and contactless, boasts six spacious ... More

Everyone is talking about vacationing in Portugal these days. It’s comparatively inexpensive, they say. The people are nice. The food is great. It’s relatively easy, once you buy property, to get the coveted Golden Visa. They’ll soon be talking a lot more about the W Algarve in the ... More

Mr. C Miami, the newly opened luxury hotel in Coconut Grove by Ignazio and Maggio Cipriani of the Cipriani family—who also own hotels in Los Angeles and New York City—was brought to life with beauty and sustainability in mind. The first-ever Cipriani-owned hotel to open ... More

Waldorf Astoria Chicago The Waldorf Astoria Chicago has reemerged from a top-down renovation, led by Chicago-based hospitality design and architecture firm KTGY Simeone Deary Design Group, who first designed the interiors in 2009. With a refreshed lobby, lounge, dining spaces and guest rooms, the reimagined Chicago mainstay ... More

Since it was founded in 2014, the Evok Hotel Collection has slowly taken over Paris with four different five-star boutique hotels, each with its own surprising identity. As the company’s first, the Nolinski is certainly its most classic, right in the center ... More

In the heart of Nantucket town, Blue Flag Partners recently debuted the boutique Faraway Hotel. A nautical theme is brought to life by warm blues at check-in, weathered trinkets displayed at the Sister Ship restaurant, aptly-named cocktails like the Bow Spritz served ... More

Gravity Haus spares no details in its quest to be known as Breckenridge’s most modern offering—the anti-ski lodge ski lodge. Sixty guest rooms eschew the traditional flannel and taxidermy in favor of something closer to industrial lumberjack chic, with concrete floors, exposed pipes, repurposed cargo container ... More

My husband and I had hiked Stowe’s Mount Mansfield at least a half-dozen times before we decided, last spring, to hire a guide to take us up during a long weekend’s stay at The Lodge at Spruce Peak. It wasn’t that we needed to know how, ... More