Hit the website for coming-soon The Tanai resort on Turks and Caicos and you'll hear that chilly haunting music that really seems to be doing the rounds of resort websites at the moment.
The only reason we can live with it is that the photos of the region are pretty spectacular and have definitely piqued our interest in The Tanai, even though it's not due to open until 2010. They just broke ground to start construction last week.
It won't be ready until fall of 2009 (at the earliest, we guess) but the Nizuc resort on the Riviera Maya in Mexico sounds like it's going to be pretty fancy.
The resort will end up with a combination of properties for sale--about 150 one and two bedroom places and a few larger beachfront villas--and hotel resort style accommodation, including 16 one-bedroom condos and 45 hotel rooms.
Today's inspiring infinity pool--because we really just can't get enough of them--comes from the Leela Kempinski Kovalam Beach near Kerala on the southern tip of India. Sandwiched between sea and mountains, this area gets a relatively high rainfall which makes the landscape the greenest in India.
The Leela has had a large addition over the years, so that there is an old wing and a new wing of the hotel. Be sure to stay in the section near the infinity pool and then there's an added bonus of a bar overlooking the sea which has large sofa-beds where you can enjoy your drink in the most relaxing way possible.
They have "Winter Bliss" packages available now (today it was 87 degrees at the Leela) starting from $293 per night for a Beach View suite, include buffet breakfast, $25 food and beverage credit per night and airport transfers. Their so-called winter runs until April 30, 2008.
Today we pick a new site where we can feel at one with planet earth while safely surrounded by ceramic and covered in chlorinated water. Each of the 38 villas at Ubud Hanging Gardens in Bali has a heated private infinity plunge pool that overlooks the Ayung river. Rather than visually blending with the sea, these infinity pools offer bathers the serene feeling the water takes on before it plunges over a cliff -- without the threat of falling to one's death.
The pools are supported by wooden pillars and surrounded by terraced gardens. And the individual heaters ensure each pool's temperature never dips below 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Rooms start at $270 per night. Not a bad deal, since in Manhattan, that kind of price gets us a stay at a hotel with plastic covering the chairs. For a private infinity pool, king-size four-poster bed, marble bathtub, and all the spa and cuisine options we never even knew we craved, $270 seems like a steal.
Here's a shot of the infinity pool at Costa Rica's Hotel Villa Caletas. Sure the hedges behind the pool need to be trimmed to blur the line between man- and god-made bodies of water. But the place still looks pretty serene, and it's surrounded by plenty of other natural wonders that make us feel guilty for our Christmas-only church routine.
The hotel offers four-night packages, starting at $965 in low season. Included in the package is a tour of the nearby Manuel Antonio National Park. Guests can glide on zip lines through the jungle canopy and or paddle on kayak through the winding rivers, scoping for the country's famed fauna breadth. The park alone has more than 100 mammal species and almost 200 species of birds. Or you can just lay by the pool and watch the whales and dolphins migrating out at sea.
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