T+L's It List 2008: The Good+The Bad
May 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM |
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Travel+Leisure just released its "It List 2008: The Top 30 New Hotels in the World" and overall it's pretty feh. Some of the selections are just downright obvious, like the Regent Bal Harbour in Miami, London's The Connaught, Paris' Le Meurice and The Plaza in New York. However, there are a few choices for which T+L editors deserve credit for venturing outside the safe zone ...
One particular standout is the Hôtel Nord-Pinus Tanger, in Tangier, Morocco. We visited Tangier recently (though we stayed a short jaunt across the Mediterranean in Tarifa, Spain--at a hostel, ahem) and the destination hardly struck us as something that would fall on any travel editor's radar, unless the next travel trend is constantly being harassed by guys selling Moroccan tchotchkes.
T+L says Tangier is "fast recapturing the glamour of its glory days," and with the opening of this riad, "the Old Town finally has the chic little inn it deserves." The hotel possesses just one double room and four suites, which are decorated with bronze, marble and Indian silks. During high season, the prices start at about $440, which includes breakfast, dinner and shuttle to the airport.
There's also Six Senses Hideaway Yao Noi in Thailand, which T+L editors selected for its "beauty of a remote destination without the hassle of being entirely off the grid," and the 32-room Tierra Atacama Hotel & Spa in San Pedro, Chile, which got singled out for its unique build and staff of expert guides who take guests to bike the desert's salt flats, climb its volcanoes and hike the Andes.
With a name like The Farm at Cape Kidnappers, we were also surprised to see this 26-room lodge in Te Awanga, New Zealand, make the list, and the choice to highlight Casa dell'Arte deserves major points for touting the Aegean resort town of Bodrum, Turkey.
For all those highlights, consider our overly judgmental selves impressed, T+L.
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