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A Perfect Few Days: Buy These Downloadable Itineraries to Venice, Florence, Rome, and the Amalfi Coast
Are you (or someone you know) heading to the Bel Paese ? We've got something for you. Our itineraries for A Few Days in Venice, Florence, Rome, and the Amalfi Coast are elegant digital guides that mix old favorites and new finds. More than a list of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, sites, cafes, and bars, the guides are plans of actions that organize all
A Not So Obvious Guide to Sicily: The Beach, The Hills, The Shows, The Bread, The Goods
You can treat it as its own universe. The Sicilians certainly do. At the Beach in Cefalù We met Gaia Miccichè when we spent a few early summer days at Le Calette , her family’s five-star hotel on the water outside Cefalù. (They also run the quieter Alberi del Paradiso amid the trees on the other side of town.) Staying at Le Calette was a dream ( we wrote abo
A Perfect Few Days: Buy Our Downloadable Itinerary for the Amalfi Coast
Are you (or someone you know) heading to the Amalfi Coast? We've got something for you. A Few Days on The Amalfi Coast is our elegant guide to the area — a mix of old favorites and new finds. More than a list of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, sites, cafes, and bars, the guide is a plan of action that organizes all those great options for you, step by s
A Perfect Few Days: Buy Our Downloadable Itinerary for Rome
Are you (or someone you know) heading to Rome? We've got something for you. A Few Days in Rome is our elegant guide to the city — a mix of old favorites and new finds. More than a list of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, sites, cafes, and bars, the guide is a plan of action that organizes all those great options for you, step by step. We've taken the gue
A Perfect Few Days: Buy Our Downloadable Itinerary for Florence
Are you (or someone you know) heading to Florence? We've got something for you. A Few Days in Florence is our elegant guide to the city — a mix of old favorites and new finds. More than a list of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, sites, cafes, and bars, the guide is a plan of action that organizes all those great options for you, step by step. We've taken
A Breezy Beach Town Agenda for "The End"
Montauk, the sought-after summer hub at the tip of Long Island, is singing with laid-back beach culture, dressed-up stays, waterfront seafood shacks, and mom-and-pop shops. The End hums well into autumn, when the wildflowers are blooming, the surf is warm, and the Ditch Witch is still slinging breakfast burritos. Here's a one-sheet for your next visit. Stay
When Mexico Calls, the Answer Is Always Sí
There’s magic south of the border, and it’s not limited to the pueblos mágicos . Here are four great hotels to book now. (You’ll thank yourself in a few months when the winter comes whipping around.) Etéreo is a discreet beach resort along the busy Riviera Maya, a destination almost too easy to reach from the East Coast and the UK. Bruma in wine country is h
Let Fathom's Travel Concierge Plan Your Vacation
We want to make it easier for you to travel. That means giving you great ideas (inspiration!) — and also arranging and booking your trip (action!). That's why we launched the Fathom Travel Concierge . We work in partnership with tested and trusted travel advisors around the world and can help you with advice, reservations, plans, experiences, and the extras
Architectural Wonder Hotels: The World’s Most Iconic Design Stays
We see a lot of hotels. A lot. Online and in real life. So many that they can start to feel and look a little same-same, especially from the outside. That’s partly understandable, right? There are only so many variations on the basic lobby-restaurant-bar-room-suite-spa-pool configuration. This may explain why we’re extra struck when we see a hotel that inspi
We’re Thankful For a Year of Memorable Moments
Cold plunges. Good looking rooms. Sharp design details. Encounters with creatures along the way. Happy Thanksgiving. We’re thankful for… Photo by Anna Petrow. … the entire autumn color palette in one frame . Restaurant Le Meurice Alain Ducasse photo by Pavia Rosati. …a grand start to the day. Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge photo by Pavia Rosati. …trusty guides t
Giving Joy: A Gift Guide Inspired by Art, Music, and Nature
It’s the time of year when gift guides are on the menu. But we don’t care if you don’t want to buy anything. (Who does? It’s so boring). We just want you to know that this holiday season, we’re looking for things that inspire and serve JOY. We found it in: Cortina’s stunning mountain setting the sparkling visual works of Mickalene Thomas the genre-defying mu
What Are Travel Industry's Expectations for 2026?
We’re feeling 2026 — and we’re talking about emotions more than things. I want travel to get weirder and more personal — for me and for you. Let’s trade the slick and seamless for something off-kilter and non algorithmic. It’s the year to do something totally out of character, maybe even irrational, for the thrill of it. (For starters, I’m heading to Medellí
Why Are There So Many Hotel Collections and What Do They Even Mean?
Dear Travel Shrink: Can you explain the difference between a Leading Hotel of the World and a Preferred Hotel? Or a Design Hotel and a Small Luxury Hotel of the World? I often see these associations on hotel websites and I don’t know what they mean, who’s getting paid (if anyone), and, frankly, why I should even care. What are these “hotel collections” all a
Hotel Crushes and Solo Pleasures: Where to Find Love in the World
While we’re not much for Hallmark holidays, we are much for celebrating love wherever we find it. Double Occupancy We asked couples who created and run some of our favorite hotels where they go to escape and reconnect with each other. Beach babies at heart, to us there’s nothing more romantic than a long salty day in the sun with nothing to do but be togethe
The Best New Hotels Opening in Italy This Year
These are the opening on the horizon in Italy in 2026, from cities to islands. Venice The storied Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel is putting finishing touches on its extensive and gorgeous renovation, and by the middle of 2026, Venice will see the completion of a hat trick of grand and long-awaited big-brand renovations. Airelles Palladio Venezia , the compa
Is It Luxury? Or Basic Bitch Luxury? Volume 2
Around this time last year, we wrote about the concept of Basic Bitch Luxury , our term for the “special” touches, amenities, and features in so-called “luxury” hotels that have become so commonplace they no longer feel special or luxurious. Like decorating with Assouline books, merchandising toilet paper, overly complicating the lighting schemes. The articl
Booking.com vs. Expedia vs. Direct Booking: What Travelers Need to Know
On our subscriber newsletter Way to Go , we solve the mysteries our readers send in to the Travel Shrink. Got a vacation crisis you can't solve? Drop us a line . The doctor is in. In this session, we examine the best way to book a hotel. The internet made hotel booking easier than ever. It also concentrated enormous power in the hands of a few companies. Her