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OUR BEEN-THERE, SLEPT-THERE GUIDE TO THE 75 BEST NEW H TELS AND RESORTS
Turn and open the page for all of the winners...followed by reviews and photos that’ll have you booking rooms now.
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1. 11 Howard, New York, N.Y. 2. Ace Hotel New Orleans, La. 3. Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Spa, Ariz. 4. The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, New York, N.Y. 5. Brentwood, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 6. Casa Grande at Vermejo Park Ranch, N.M. 7. Casa Laguna Hotel & Spa, Laguna Beach, Calif. 8. The Dewberry Charleston, S.C. 9. EAST, Miami, Fla. 10. Four Seasons Resort Lanai, Hawaii
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11. Greydon House, Nantucket, Mass. 12. Hotel Saint George, Marfa, Tex. 13. Hôtel William Gray, Montreal, Canada 14. Malibu Beach Inn, Calif. 15. The Peninsula Chicago, Ill. 16. The Robey, Chicago, Ill. 17. Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, Hunter, N.Y. 18. SingleThread Farm-Restaurant-Inn, Sonoma, Calif. 19. Taylor River Lodge, Crested Butte, Colo. 20. Thompson Nashville, Tenn. 21. Thompson Seattle, Wash. 22. Timber Cove Resort, Sonoma, Calif.
23. Chablé Resort, Yucatán, Mexico 24. Hotel Le Toiny, St. Barts 25. Le Barthélemy Hotel & Spa, St. Barts 26. Mar Adentro, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 27. The Other Side, Bahamas 28. The Shore Club Turks and Caicos 29. Villa Marie SaintBarth, St. Barts 30. Zemi Beach House, Anguilla
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EUROPE 33. Casa Bonay, Barcelona, Spain 34. Ha(a)ïtza, Pyla-sur-Mer, France 35. Hôtel Panache, Paris, France 36. Hôtel Saint-Marc, Paris, France 37. Il Sereno, Lake Como, Italy 38. Killiehuntly Farmhouse & Cottage, Scotland 39. La Granja Ibiza, Spain 40. Le Saint, Paris, France 41. Masseria Le Carrube, Ostuni, Italy 42. Nolinski Paris, France 43. Palazzo Venart, Venice, Italy 44. Palé Hall, Gwynedd, Wales 45. The PIG at Combe, Devon, England 46. Ritz Paris, France 47. Roch Hôtel & Spa, Paris, France 48. Sikelia, Pantelleria, Italy 49. Soho House Barcelona, Spain 50. Villa La Coste, Provence, France 51. Villa Pliniana, Lake Como, Italy
52. Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort, Nizwa, Oman 53. andBeyond Matetsi River Lodge, Zimbabwe 54. Banyan Tree Tamouda Bay, Fnideq, Morocco 55. Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island, U.A.E. 56. The Highlands, Ngorongoro, Tanzania 57. Jumeirah Al Naseem, Dubai, U.A.E. 58. Leeu Estates, Franschhoek, South Africa 59. L’Hôtel Marrakech, Morocco 60. Sofitel Tamuda Bay Beach and Spa Hotel, M’diq, Morocco 61. Thanda Island, Tanzania
ASIA 62. 28 Kothi, Jaipur, India 63. Amanemu, Shima, Japan 64. Anantara Peace Haven Tangalle Resort, Sri Lanka 65. Chena Huts, Sri Lanka 66. Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto, Japan 67. Four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah, Baa Atoll, Maldives 68. Hoshinoya Tokyo, Japan 69. Katamama, Bali, Indonesia
THE H T 75 70. KK Beach, Habaraduwa, Sri Lanka 71. Santani Wellness Resort & Spa, Kandy District, Sri Lanka 72. Six Senses Zil Pasyon, Seychelles 73. The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort, Maldives 74. Villa Mahabhirom, Chiang Mai, Thailand
AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC 75. Helena Bay Lodge, Northland, New Zealand
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It’s almost a given that a hotel will make some claim of localism (we don’t think stocking the minibar with regional craft beer really counts). These properties, however, are implementing more considered collaborations that actually resonate with the guests.
Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Spa
Those colorful oil canvases and ceramic mugs you’re sipping coffee from (even the staff’s name tags and bracelets) come from the 81-year-old art collective Cattle Track, down the road.
Casa Bonay, Barcelona
The 67-room hotel taps into new-wave Catalan design with yak’s-wool bedcovers
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loomed in neighboring Terrassa and prints by designer Clara ArnĂşs.
Hotel Saint George, Marfa (below)
The Marfa Book Company, a 21-year-old local institution, moved into the hotel lobby where it shares space with paintings by Texan Jeff Elrod.
HĂ´tel William Gray, Montreal
Savvy Quebecois know the most buttery croissants come from Café Olimpico, whose latest outpost is next to the lobby.
Thompson Nashville
You’ll need jeans in this town. And the in-room fittings with homegrown brand Imogene + Willie will make it impossible to shop for denim at a store ever again.
few things are more divine than an outdoor massage, shrouded by palms in the garden at sikelia, the first luxury resort on sicily’s pantelleria island. Condé Nast Traveler / 05.17
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THE LUXURY MAGAZINE FOR AMERICAN AIRLINES & AMERICAN EAGLE PREMIUM CLASS PASSENGERS
September/october 2016
BEHIND THE LENS
B A R H E M I N G WAY I S B A C K
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P H OTO G R A P H E R M AT T H E W R O L S TO N O N H I S D E S I G N D O M I N ATI O N
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klahoma City is a frontier town, home to the proverbial Western hero. The pulse of contemporary OKC still beats for the salt of the earth and working class, and there’s something artistic about that, as demonstrated by the new 21c Museum Hotel. A rehabilitation project that transformed the historic Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant into a 135-room boutique hotel, 21c offers 14,000 square feet of art-exhibition space open to the public for free, as well as Mary Eddy’s Kitchen x Lounge, the local toast of the OKC culinary scene that serves American contemporary cuisine in a renovated industrial setting. Built in 1916 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building still has its original casement windows, the former Model T showroom’s original terrazzo floor, entry canopy and marquee. Rates start at $219. 21CMUSEUMHOTELS.COM —ADAM PITLUK
H OT E L S A I N T G E O R G E M A R FA , T E X A S Modern genius in the Lone Star state
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hen you decide to open a hotel in a town that boasts one of the largest permanent installations of contemporary art in the world, you’re undoubtedly faced with a conundrum: Do you embrace the art connection or ignore it for fear of not getting it quite right? Fortunately for visitors to Hotel Saint George in Marfa, Texas, owner Tim Crowley opted for the former by installing the works of more than two dozen artists in the rooms and public spaces. Artwork by part-time resident Christopher Wool (whose painting “Untitled [Riot]” sold for $29.9 million at Sotheby’s last year) hangs in LaVenture, the hotel’s fine-dining restaurant. A diptych by Michael Phelan welcomes guests with the lyrics from Neil Young’s song “Fade to Black.” And the best part? The lobby bar is the new artist hangout. Rooms start at $195. MARFASAINTGEORGE.COM —RIMA SUQI
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Utah, Oahu, Canada, Korea — they’re among our top destinations for the new year. Plus, how to navigate in the ever-changing world. L2-L5
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[Places, from L4] added a 27-unit Beach House in 2016. The Mayakoba development, which emphasizes sustainability and is home to Rosewood, Fairmont and Banyan Tree hotels, added a 214-room Andaz Resort in December. The all-inclusive, family-friendly Ocean Riviera Paradise also opened in December. The all-inclusive, adults-only Unico Riviera Maya, south of Playa del Carmen, is to open in March. Info: Visit Mexico, www.lat.ms/riviera maya
San Francisco Here comes the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and San Francisco ventures such as the Magic Bus (which does ’60s-themed local tours), San Francisco Love Tours (which uses VW buses with psychedelic paint jobs) and Flower Power Walking Tours will make the most of that in HaightAshbury and beyond. Find Jimi Hendrix’s old place at 1524A Haight St. (the apartment, above a tobacco shop, is a private residence) and the North Beach coffee shop where Janis Joplin did some singing. Now it’s Maggie McGarry’s Irish Pub, and there’s more singing than ever. Various street fairs are in the works, including one in Haight-Ashbury in June (details TBA), and ’60s-themed exhibitions are planned at the California Historical Society, the De Young Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and San Francisco City Hall. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will still be celebrating its May 2016 expansion. Info: San Francisco Travel, www.sftravel .com
Seoul This South Korean capital city on the Han River is as urban as they come with a population of about 10 million, but it’s been renewing its natural connections. Explore the Cheonggyecheon, a sevenmile-long restored urban stream that replaced an elevated highway and acts as a linear park through the center of the city. In late 2017, the Seoul Skygarden, an urban overpass replanted with local plant species, will reopen for pedestrians, creating an arboretum above the Seoul Station transportation center. Visit soon and you’ll beat the crowds expected for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (80 miles east of Seoul) Feb. 9 to 25, 2018. Info: Visit Seoul, english.visitseoul.net
Slovenia Slovenia, part of Yugoslavia until the 1990s, has been gaining momentum for years. The site of bloody conflict during both world wars, it’s now a treasure-trove of scenery. Its capital, Ljubljana, is just two hours’ drive from Italy’s Friuli wine region. Bike tour company Backroads has added a 2017 tour that combines Slovenia and Friuli. Ljubljana is a short drive to placid Lake Bled and the Soca River Valley — lots of cycling and rafting — and the cave system of Postojna, about 30 miles southwest of Ljubljana. Postojna is also the beginning of the Via Dinarica, a recently developed mountain hiking trail that runs through several western Balkan nations. Many adventure tour operators now are running Slovenian trips. Info: Slovenian Tourist Board, www.slovenia.info
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THE CHURCH of the Assumption, on an island in Lake Bled, is among a treasure-trove of scenery found in Slovenia.
Tanzania Why see Tanzania? We need not say more than: 8 Serengeti, a national park with some of Africa’s most impressive wildlife; 8 Ngorongoro, a crater with some of the most spectacular views on the continent, and Kilimanjaro, the 19,341-foot mountain that is Africa’s highest point; 8 The Highlands, a safari camp north of the crater on the slopes of Olmoti volcano that opened in 2016 with eight domed tentsuites of canvas and glass; 8 Jabali Ridge, a fancier 10-unit camp from the same company (Asilia), due to open in September in the larger but less-trafficked Ruaha National Park. Info: Tanzania Tourist Board, www.tan zaniatouristboard.com
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HAIGHT-ASHBURY in San Francisco
will mark Summer of Love anniversary.
Norma Yuskos
ZEBRAS quench their thirst in Seren-
geti National Park in Tanzania.
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CUZCO, Peru, home to the Plaza de
Armas, is getting new train service.
Todos Santos, Baja California Todos Santos is an artsy, expat-friendly beach town an hour’s drive north of Cabo San Lucas. The quaint restaurants, shops and uncrowded rough-water beaches are enough to attract visitors, especially surfers. If you’re a growth-friendly optimist, you may be eager to see the first signs of Tres Santos, an ambitious new resort and wellness community whose short-term plans include 29 residences, restaurant, farm, farmers’ market, desalination plant and the 32-room Hotel San Cristóbal, which aims to open in March. If you’re a skeptic, you might have doubts about the project’s water use, its effect on the beach, its potential to grow to more than 4,000 units — and you might be eager to see Todos Santos before there are too many changes. Info: Visit Mexico, www.lat.ms/todossan tos
Vancouver Island, Canada
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HONG KONG will have more than a dozen hotels opening during the new year. It
has been almost 20 years since Britain handed over its former colony to China.
It’s a short hop from big-city Vancouver, yet the island’s wild feel is drawing adventurous travelers to the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort (open mid-May through late September) and the Free Spirit Spheres treehouses (near Qualicum Beach), which hopes to add a fourth sphere in time for summer. In the resort town of Tofino, which has become a storm-watching destination from November through March (and was named Sunset magazine’s “Best Beach town in the West” for 2016), there’s the much-praised Wolf in the Fog restaurant; Sea Monster Noodle Bar; Calypso Roti Shop; and the Pacific Sands Beach Resort, whose 77 beach houses and suites will be joined by 40 new units this spring. Info: Destination BC, www.lat.ms/van couverisland
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A GIRL rides along the freshwater
Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia.
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THE HELSINKI Music Centre will
help Finland mark its independence.
Christopher Reynolds L.A. Times
TODOS SANTOS is a friendly, evolv-
ing beach town in Baja California.
Yosemite National Park All the usual reasons apply, plus this: In early summer, rangers will reopen the park’s Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, home to about 500 of California’s biggest trees. During the grove’s two-year closure, the National Park Service has added hiking trails and boardwalks, upgraded toilets, removed a gift shop and rerouted tram traffic. Info: Yosemite National Park, www.nps.gov/yose Peter Unger Getty Images / Lonely Planet Image
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MARIPOSA GROVE of Giant Se-
quoias will reopen in Yosemite.
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SEOUL, on the Han River, has been
renewing its connections to nature.
Clayoquot Wilderness Resort
VANCOUVER ISLAND’S Clayoquot
Wilderness Resort is a summer draw.
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Does L.A. really need more hotels? Ready or not, two Kimptons, a Waldorf Astoria, hipster hotels in downtown L.A. and more are set to open this year in Southern California. Consider: Tourism in 2016 is estimated to have brought a record 47.3 million visitors and 81% hotel occupancy to L.A., according to the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board. The county is expected to add almost 6,000 new hotel rooms this year and an additional 2,300 rooms by 2019. Here are some hotel openings to look out for in 2017 — and some you may have missed. Dream Los Angeles | Hollywood (March) The Dream hotel at 6417 Selma Ave. in Hollywood is the first West Coast location for the brand. The building claims a “Neutra-inspired” design for the building with 179 rooms and a rooftop pool and lounge. Keyless entry, in-room tablet and free Wi-Fi are tech perks included in the price. Reservations start March 1. Info: Dream Los Angeles | Hollywood, (323) 844-6417 Freehand (mid-March) This hotel and hostel brand that Travel + Leisure calls “ultra cool, ultra hip” already exists in Miami, Chicago and New York. It plans to open in the Commercial Exchange Building at the corner of 8th and Olive streets in downtown L.A. Reservations are open starting March 15, and there are room options aplenty, like a basic king-sized room, a loft suite or a shared room. The Broken Shaker rooftop
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