Where to stay when you leave.
3/02/2007 at 11:24 AM
Tags: Turkey Hotels, Beach Boutique Hotels
If you want a truly peaceful holiday with all the nice parts of a beach resort holiday and none of the crowds, noise and ugly breakfast buffet scenes, it might be time to try something like the Lavanta boutique beach hotel in southern Turkey. To start with, it has a "no kids" policy, so you can be sure that all your fellow guests will be over 14 years of age. The Lavanta is built quite steeply into the side of the hill overlooking Turunc Bay, and you can get views out to sea as well as to the forest and mountains. Every suite has a private balcony and French windows to maximize the views.
If you're not sitting around the pool (which becomes a pleasure again when a dozen children aren't jumping in and splashing your book each time you roll over), you can walk or take the shuttle bus to the beach. Breakfast is included but you can only get dinner three times a week--although with special poolside, Turkish-themed meals, it sounds pretty tasty--outside of Monday, Wednesday and Friday you'll have to fend for yourself in the village. Or just stay the whole day by the pool not using any energy, and you won't even need to eat until breakfast.
[Photo: travellingrunes]
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by amandak
3/01/2007 at 12:03 PM
Tags: Christian Liaigre, Caribbean Resorts, Honeymoon Resorts, Beach Boutique Hotels
Ok, you know we usually shy away from staged marketing photos. It isn't like we have an aversion to good photos--Noah takes great, real hotel photos for us. However, the above photo illustrates why we like to use hotel issued photos as a last resort.
C'mon. We all know if you are lucky enough to check in to the Christian Liaigre (Club Med Bora Bora, The Mercer in New York) designed Le Sereno in Saint-Barthélemy you are going to flop on the bed in sheer ecstasy, leaving your bags strewn throughout the room along the way--why do they have to prop those bags up there? Besides, the room looks great regardless, just leave the bags out of the shot.
Furthermore, if do happen to be OCD enough to neatly line your perfectly packed burlap bags at the end of the bed before enjoying the room, then we hope the person unlucky enough to travel with you brought plenty of rum.
Our advice to the person traveling with this type of pedantic traveler? Head out to that couch type thing you see in the insert above, down a bottle of rum and flirt heavily with the young, friendly, beautiful staffers that grace this 37-villa seaside resort.
The villas include plasma-screen TVs, iPods, Wi-Fi, and Ex Voto Paris bath products.
The beach isn't one of the nicest on the island, but the resort is--we are sure your OCD partner, who meticulously lines up luggage at the end of hotel beds upon arrival, is already complaining about the beach, instead of enjoying the beautiful resort. See why we don't usually use these type of photos? They conjure up all kinds of visions.
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by markj
2/23/2007 at 10:52 AM
Tags: Chile Hotel Reviews, Surf Hotels, Beach Boutique Hotels
A friend of HotelChatter took off for Chile late last week and is reporting quite a hotel find. Five hours south of Santiago, is a surfer's boutique resort called La Joya del Mar. There are only three villas at the resort, and on-site restaurant, and plenty of Chilean wine.
The owner, Dayna Del Duca, is also a surfer, so who knows, maybe a couple surf lessons can get thrown into the rack rate.
[Photo: chris be]
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