Stylish Stays are my collection of luxury, boutique hotels that have high standards of excellence in attention to detail, service, design, and style. They are hotels that have charmed me from the moment I arrived, and are ones that I often return to over and over again. While I do write about other hotels and resorts, anything approved for Stylish Stays means that it met a very high standard, and I am recommending it to you as your home away from home in neighborhoods across the globe.
a legendary extended stay in hollywood When Hollywood is your home, it’s easy to drive past buildings and film studios on your morning commute and ignore the fact that this place ignited the Golden Age—bringing with it lavish architecture that would satisfy the high-falutin taste of oil tycoons, bon vivants and movie starlets. In 1926, […]
Number Sixteen, London If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you know that I am a big Kit Kemp fan. A few years ago we finally splurged on a stay at the Charlotte Street hotel for my birthday, but it had been since then since I’d stayed in one of her
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A Cool Boutique Hotel In New York When people ask what my favorite hotel in New York is, I answer that question with the stipulation that I have a favorite room at a hotel—not just a hotel. New York is notorious for having small hotel rooms—unless you have the funds to book a suite at
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Hotel Saint Cecilia, A Very Stylish Stay Sometimes you pick a destination, and then choose a hotel. Other times, a hotel is the destination. You could say for my trip to Austin, I got the best of both worlds: a very cool boutique hotel that beckoned me to a very cool city I’d never visited.
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Proper Hotel San Francisco Until last year, San Francisco had been in a new-hotel drought, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. If you cared at all about luxury, your options were limited to the old-world glam of Nob Hill (I do love the Mark Hopkins!) or The Palace, and though there’s nothing wrong with those, you
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An Idyllic Country House Hotel in The Cotswolds I’ve decided to make my second home in the Cotswolds. Never mind that it is more than a ten hour plane ride, an eight hour time difference, and I can only go once a year—if I’m extremely lucky. The past May, I tagged along (ahem, invited myself)
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Where to Stay in Tulum: Be Tulum Over ten years ago, my sister-in-law told us about her trip to Mexico in a secret, off the beaten path, tropical paradise—full of affordable ecolodges, and pristine beaches on the Yucatan Peninsula. She was talking about Tulum, and while it still offers all of those things, it has
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