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What Does a Non-Starwood St. Regis Have To Offer?
A St. Regis for around $200* a night? Yes, it's possible—in Canada! Of course, that room rate should be the first thing to tip you off that the St. Regis Vancouver is not actually a St. Regis of the Starwood variety.
As we found on a recent trip north, the St. Regis Vancouver is a charming boutique hotel with historic bones, a fantastic downtown location perfect for business travelers and tourists alike--and a ton of added extras that we bet you won't find at your local posh version of a St. Regis.
If you're wondering what a Non-St.Regis St. Regis looks like, just click through our gallery for a peek at what the Vancouver indie has to offer.
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What's Up With a Room For London?
A look inside A Room for London's nautical interior
Now that London's hotel of-the-moment, the single-suite Room for London, has opened its nautically-themed doors, we're on a mad hunt for reviews. Creative or kitchy? Comfy or cramped? Opinions will filter through in drips and drabs, as ARFL's limited coterie of guests experience and check out of the Southbank-perched lodgings.
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At Marrakech's Dar Ayniwen, Snag a Suite With a Private Terrace If You Can
Our series on Marrakech concludes with the grandest suite we saw during our four day jaunt to the Moroccan city.
Dar Ayniwen, like Jnane Tamsna, is located in La Palmeraie, providing a sea change in terms of environment when compared to the Medina. The estate-turned-hotel that doesn't shy away from pomp and circumstance: stately excess best describes its decor, from the textured Berber rugs layered and peppered throughout its interior, to walls plastered with vintage travel posters, to the plush gardens surrounding it, with a variety of bird species chirping a natural soundtrack for the villa.
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Organic Eating and Sunlit Garden Strolls at Marrakech's Jnane Tamsna
Removed from the frantic climes of Marrakech's Medina, Jnane Tamsna is located in the city's Palmeraie district, tucked away from other sizeable resorts in the area. We planned an afternoon sojourn to the grounds after learning about on-site cookery classes featuring staples of Moroccan cuisine. Fans of former Gourmet Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl may remember Jnane Tamsna's house chef, Bahija, featured on an episode of Adventures With Ruth.
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Pancakes, a Fez and Babouche Slippers Took the (Birthday) Cake at Riad Joya
Yesterday we teased today's full review of Riad Joya, a boutique hotel planted squarely in the middle of Marrakech's Medina, the most ancient part of the city. Having made the claim that Joya provided us with the best service ever experienced, it's only fitting that we elaborate on such a bold statement.
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Why Hotels Should Take a Cue From Marrakech's Riad Joya
Mint tea and fresh Moroccan pastries: now that's a check-in greeting
Though London's winter has been comparatively mild to previous chillblain-inducing, blustering holiday seasons of years prior, us local Hotel Chatter-ers found ourselves craving a mid-season warm weather getaway nonetheless. Marrakech, Morocco won out over other similarly balmy cities for its proximity to the U.K. capital (it's just a three hour flight away) and the promise of tangines peppered with Ras el Hanout and preserved lemons.
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Former Conservatory-Turned-Duplex Suite Hotel is Music to Amsterdam's Ears
The latest addition to Amsterdam's, ahem, smokin' hot hotel scene is The Conservatorium, recently opened near P.C. Hoofstraat, otherwise known as the city's version of Rodeo Drive. Our intrepid sources have been scouring for early reviews of the petite 129-room escape, but all we've learned about the hotel so far is that it's aiming to "[bring] back the essence" of the iconic 19th Century ex-music conservatory renovated to create the space (hence the name).
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One-Room Copenhagen Hotel Boasts Kitsch and Top Notch Caffeine
See that teensy-tiny window? That's supposedly where Copenhagen's new one-room hotel will reside.
Is it just us, or is there some kind of chiral harmony between hotel gimmicks in London and Copenhagen these days? First, we reported on locales in the respective cities promoting all-female floors, and now Copenhagen is following in the footsteps of London's soon-to-be-launched Room for London and debuting one-room lodgings of its own.
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We Predict The Washington School House Hotel Will Soon Have a Waiting List
There's a new hotel opening in Park City later this month but with only 12 guest rooms in the middle of downtown, you can forget about booking it for the Sundance. That said, when the ski season and film festival fervor dies down a bit, the Washington School House will be a cool place to stay.
The hotel is, as its name implies, one of the last original school houses in the United States, originally built in 1889 with quarried limestone. It's even listed on the National Historic Registry. Yet approval was given for a hotel to be created within its original structure and the result is 12 shishi guestrooms with crisp white Pratesi linens on the beds, fancy antique furniture and heated bathroom floors.
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All Aboard, Mateys! There's Still a Chance to Book 'A Room for London'
You might remember a recent report we logged about London's pop-up, one room hotel, "A Room for London," set to open this January in the lead up to next summer's Olympic Games. Bookings for the floating suite of sorts—"perched" on the edge of the Thames River and offering a spectacular view of the Southbank—have already sold out from January through June.
Not surprising, considering the novelty factor and the fact that London hotel rooms in general are disappearing faster than you can say "tourist board windfall."
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Leopard Prints, Hot Air Balloons and Bowler Hat Lamps at Hotel Saint James Paris
We’ve spent a lot of time this past year oohing and aahing over the slew of new luxury hotels opening in Paris like the Mandarin Oriental, the Shangri-La and the Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris. Now, however, we wanted to tell you about the big redecoration that’s going on at Saint James Paris, a tiny gem of a boutique hotel in Paris’s understated yet elegant 16th arrondisement that’s been getting a fabulous facelift.
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Finding Your Hotel Isn't The Only Killer Thing In Matera
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
You know when you get lost finding a hotel and you drag your suitcase along pedestrianized streets and up and down copious steps as nobody around you has any idea of where you’re going, and you spend 35 minutes wandering aimlessly until finally you find someone who happened to pass your hotel earlier on their trail?
No? Then you clearly haven’t been to Matera, in Southern Italy. AKA Jordan, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and countless other Biblical destinations (as per the films which have been shot there).
See, Matera is famous for its sassi houses carved out of the rock. The sassi are a) on a steep hillside and b) for the very most part pedestrianised, which makes it a perfect film set for, say, The Passion of the Christ but a bit of a nightmare when it comes to locating your hotel. Particularly when it’s siesta time and the only people on the streets are tourists and you're lugging a case stuffed with the finest of southern Italy's olive oils. Ahem.
Anyway, all the stress fell away when we reached our room at L’Hotel in Pietra, climbed upstairs to our balcony, and were confronted by this killer view.
We’ll bring you a review soon, but for now, enjoy the silence of the sassi.
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