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The Little Fashion Hotel That Could: Tcherassi Opens In Colombia
This year, Fashion Hotels have been very much...well, in fashion as it seems. Missoni debute the first edition of their hotel brand in Edinburgh, and Armani is still awaiting the opening of his first in the Burj tower in Dubai, and now designer Silvia Tcherassi has renovated a mansion in Colombia to become her own fashion hotel.
The 7-suite property sits in the UNESCO site of Cartegena de Indias, Colombia and is your typical retreat from the city, although with a true designer's touch as each room is uniquely decorated and sporting an open layout—yes, this means peekaboo bathrooms. Our favorite part of flipping through the gallery of images after the jump has got to be the vertical garden dominating a side of the pool courtyard; that's some very nature-conscious landscaping, if you ask us. Talk about maximizing space and bringing the outdoors in.
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Tough Choice: Office Desk or a Hammock on a Remote Colombian Island?
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K skips off to Providencia Island...in her mind. Enjoy.
After reading the UK Guardian's weekend piece on Providencia Island in Colombia – they raved – that's the new destination on my wishlist. They describe it as a tiny hidden island which is not quite Spanish at all – in fact, they say you get a "do-it-yourself Caribbean experience" on Providencia. Which sounds just like the relaxing, laidback kind of vacation I could do with.
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Newest Fashion Hotel On The Block: Tcherassi In Colombia
It's official: 2009 is the year of fashion designer hotels. Missoni just debuted their first in Scotland, Palazzo Versace continue to proliferate, Diesel's creative director opened a Brazil retreat in spring, and Armani will have his first in Dubai on December 2. We can't just look at the biggest names as the only creators of boutique properties, however, as Colombian designer Silvia Tcherassi steps up to open her own tropical resort in fall.
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The Hotel Bahia Blanca Is Not Luxury But You're Treated Like Family
Last month, Amanda Pressner gave Jaunted a report on her jaunt down to Colombia. This week, she is giving HotelChatter reviews of the hotels she checked into during her trip. Any questions or suggestions about the Colombia Hotel Scene? Let us know. Enjoy.
Provided you’re willing to shell out the bucks, it’s never that difficult to find a decent night’s sleep, no matter where on the planet you go. But once you put the term “budget” before your title of traveler, well, that’s when you start playing the game of hotel room roulette
Unable to assess the quality of the backpacker lodging in the seaside Colombian city of Santa Marta simply from the web, my guy Jeff and I waited until we’d been dropped off in the city, at dusk, to choose our hotel. After immediately rejecting the so-called best waterfront lodging (we wonder—do the Lonely Planet people actually enter the asylum-like places they recommend so fervently?) we opted for the Hotel Bahía Blanca, a quaint ground-level property with about a dozen rooms flanking a small, but pleasant interior courtyard.
It appeared that we were only two a few guests in residence at the time, but in theory, that meant more personalized attention from the staff.
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The Hotel Caribe Cartagena Looks Grand But Really Isn't
Last month, Amanda Pressner gave Jaunted a report on her jaunt down to Colombia. This week, she is giving HotelChatter reviews of the hotels she checked into during her trip. Any questions or suggestions about the Colombia Hotel Scene? Let us know. Enjoy.
In the Bocagrande section of Cartagena, a crook-armed, sea-level stretch of beach primed to sink under the weight of so many tightly-packed, modern high rises, you’ll find the Hotel Caribe, a pastel wedding cake of property that appears left over from another era, a earlier time when the wealthiest Colombians escaped the chill of Bogotá and Medellin to winter along the coast.
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A Holy Night's Stay at the Sofitel Cartagena Santa Clara
Last month, Amanda Pressner gave Jaunted a report on her jaunt down to Colombia. This week, she is giving HotelChatter reviews of the hotels she checked into during her trip. Any questions or suggestions about the Colombia Hotel Scene? Let us know. Enjoy.
There’s something a touch naughty about shacking up for the night in a 400-year-old former convent that once housed an order Clarisian nuns. You wonder, as you prepare to spend a weekend living in sin in a room transformed from the women's spartan sleeping quarters into a sexy, 500-thread count love den—what would the sisters say if they could see you now?
Fortunately, while staying at the Sofitel Cartagena Santa Clara may qualify as a religious experience (it’s widely considered the most luxurious hotel in the old city) there’s no need to act discrete or be on your best behavior.
What was once a nunnery in the 1600s, and then a charity hospital in the mid 19th century was painstakingly restored in 1994 and eventually turned into a five-star 121-room property that’s has hosted everyone from the King of Spain, Bill Gates and Mel Gibson to Jasser Arafat, Fidel Castro and Mick Jagger.
We can bet that no matter what kind of bad behavior you’ve got cooked up for your stay, you’ve already been trumped by one of these guys—so have at it.
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