Boutique Hotel vs Luxury Resort: Which Should You Book?
Two hotels can charge almost the same nightly rate and deliver completely different vacations.
One might have 38 rooms, a bar where the bartender remembers what you ordered yesterday, and a front door that opens directly onto a…
How to Choose the Best Hotel Location Before You Book
A hotel can have an enormous bed, excellent breakfast and a rooftop pool you photograph exactly once.
None of that helps much if every morning begins with a 45-minute journey to the part of the city you actually came to see.
Location…
Best Time to Visit Japan: Month-by-Month Travel Guide
Ask three travelers for the best time to visit Japan and you may get three completely different answers.
One will say April because they want cherry blossoms floating across Kyoto's canals. Another will insist on November, when temple…
World’s Most Exclusive Travel Experiences
Luxury is easy to recognize.
Exclusivity is slightly different.
A five-star hotel can still have 300 rooms. First class can still mean sharing a cabin with dozens of other passengers. Even a spectacular beach resort may involve…
Luxury Train Journeys Around the World
Most modern travel is designed around arriving faster.
Luxury trains work on exactly the opposite idea.
They take the distance between two places—the part airlines encourage us to sleep through—and turn it into the trip itself.
You…
Luxury Honeymoon Destinations: Romantic Trips Worth the Splurge
A honeymoon is one of the few trips where doing slightly too much can actually make the experience worse.
You have already survived the wedding.
There were invitations, guest lists, seating charts, clothes, photographs, family…