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Raffles Canouan Island Is One Lucky Hotel

Where: Canouan Island, Saint Vincent & Grenadines

By now we all now that Bar Refaeli is 2009's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl. If you didn't know that, then you live in a cave on Mars. But what you probably didn't know was that Bar was sharing the shot with someone else--Canouan Island.

Of course, our inquiring minds wanted to know where the models stayed. Fortunately for us, SI gave the Raffles Canouan Island Resort a shout-out on their Swimsuit Issue website. And even better, we got more scoop from the hotel's PR firm:

Five of Sports Illustrated's top models traveled to Canouan Island including Bar Refaeli, Brooklyn Decker, Jessica White, Jarah Mariano and Hilary Rhoda. Raffles Canouan provided an idyllic setting for [photographer] Raphael Mazzucco, as the cover shot of Bar Refaeli was taken on the beach.

The hotel is now offering a package based on the Swimsuit Issue called The Canouan Island Un-Covered package.

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Is This What the Swimsuit Models Saw?

Where: Kagnı yolu no:9, Goreme, Capadoccia, Turkey, 50180

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.

Our baby bro Jaunted has been all a-flutter over the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue--but not just because cover girl Bar Refaeli was splashed along the side of a Southwest plane. No, because some of those bikini photoshoot locations are very cool. Like Capadoccia, Turkey.

We found this snapshot from Flickr Member Deepgoswami of the view from the Kismet Cave Hotel. Of course, you have to look past the house with the solar panels but in the background you can see some of those fairy chimneys or rock formations specific to the area.

As for the hotel, it bills itself as a "romantic boutique hotel" for couples. Indeed, it's intimate with only 8 rooms but also affordable as rooms start at 60 Euros a night. Sorry, we don't think the swimsuit models will be waiting for you in the rooms.