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Airport hotels used to ask very little of themselves. A bed. Beige carpet. An alarm clock. A shuttle bus that appeared approximately when it felt like appearing. Nobody expected romance. You booked one because your flight landed at…

The northern lights are a terrible attraction for travelers who like guarantees. You can book the right country, stay in an expensive glass-roofed cabin, stand outside in three layers of clothing and still spend the evening looking at…

A lion crossing an open plain and a mountain gorilla sitting quietly a few meters away are both called wildlife experiences. That is about where the similarity ends. A traditional African safari is expansive. You travel through large…

Patagonia looks simple on a map until you try to plan it. There is Argentina on one side, Chile on the other, and a long strip of mountains between them. You see photographs of granite towers, blue glaciers and empty roads and assume the…

An adults-only resort sounds simple enough. No children. Pool loungers stay quieter. Dinner is less likely to involve somebody else's toddler dropping a spoon every forty seconds. The swim-up bar is designed for people old enough to…

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…