Hotel Matilda in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, reveals its artistic significance upfront. The approach starts with the water feature anchored by a 150 year-old millstone in the front courtyard, from where artist Nacho Rodriguez Bach’s multimedia illuminated wall behind the check-in desk is also visible. Next, the art-filled ... More

1. Hire a VIP Shopping Concierge Luxury brand addicts travel from around the globe to experience Madrid’s legendary El Corte Ingles, a high-end department store that might best be described as “Harrods-on-steroids.” Though there are 87 outposts scattered throughout Spain and Portugal, El Corte Ingles’ Madrid flagship on Paseo de ... More

It was an hour or so after dinner service had ended when murmurs started circulating around the ship that the Northern Lights had been spotted not too far from where we were currently sailing on the Norwegian Sea. It was the fourth night of a cruise on  More

The whimsy and the fantasy of a tree house is the stuff of innocent daydreams, much like those of being on a far-flung holiday. A host of luxury hotels around the world have combined the two to offer pampering accommodations situated high in the treetops. Forget the “no parents allowed” ... More

Naturalist John Muir once described California’s High Sierras as the most beautiful landscape he had ever seen. On a recent driving tour of Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks, I had the chance to explore this area during the off-season, when most of the parks’ combined six million annual ... More

Say you were the whimsical sort, and say you were to walk into the lobby of the Château Monfort in downtown Milan, there’s a very good chance that you just might be submerged in a fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen proportions. They don’t call the hotel an “urban castle” for nothing. Home ... More

It’s time to abandon every preconceived idea about the “mancation.” Forget the stereotypically raucous bachelor parties, uninspired golfing getaways and old-fogey fishing trips. Instead, why not consider a carefully curated escape—one that requires a little more forethought, and a bit more creativity? From traversing Kentucky’s bourbon trail to speeding in ... More

The drive from Tromsø to Olderdalen, in a U-shaped valley in northern Norway’s Lyngen Alps, is long, winding and not a little disconcerting, especially given the only rental car available to us is a Yeti, a misleadingly rugged name for a tiny, tinny vehicle not entirely up to the task ... More

U.K.-based luxury travel agency Black Tomato has been planning elaborate vacations and honeymoons since 2005, but recently they decided to enter a new market: engagements. After receiving a plethora of requests to orchestrate extravagant proposals, Black Tomato launched a service specifically dedicated to popping the question. Tom Marchant, the ... More

There are destinations in America that have been constructed specifically to cater to our notion of “the bucket list.” Visiting these places are rites of passage, adventures that must be experienced first-hand, checked off the list (and Instagrammed). For children, it may be Disney World. For bachelors, it’s Las Vegas. ... More