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'A Rare World' Offers a Rare Look at Luxury Hotels

Looking for some new aspirational travel literature to add to your collection as you hop from budget hotel to budget hotel? Then try A Rare World. The luxury travel magazine is published ten times a year at a hefty subscription price of $199. But unlike most magazines, A Rare World actually offers an electronic version (in a PDF file) to go along with your print edition. In fact, the PDF is actually emailed to you first. Then the print version will show up in the mail a few days later.

So what's inside? As expected, luxury hotel reviews. Glancing through a preview edition, which is free and you can obtain one yourself here, we saw a few detailed hotel reviews on South African Safari Lodges which continue to be all the rage as well as a play-by-play review of The Montage Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, the full edition of the first issue goes inside the luxury hotels of Paris from the classics to the boutiques to the trendy new designer hotels. Le Sigh.

What's good here is that the magazine doesn't rely on large pictures to tell the story, like a lot of other luxury travel mags. Sure, photos are very important (ARW uses only stock hotel photos) but there's a lot of information in the reviews too, including a helpful Do's and Don'ts section for each review.

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