Prairie Home Abandon | Travel + Leisure
Minneapolis’s exuberant Chambers Hotel is taking Midwestern design to a whole new level. T+L pays a visit.
Secret Hotels of California Wine Country | Budget Travel
You don’t have to spend a fortune to visit the fanciest farmland in America. We’ve found a crop of lovely, family-run inns in Napa, Sonoma, and beyond for less than $200 a night.
Las Vegas for Less | Travel + Leisure
You don’t have to be a high roller to travel to Vegas in style. Here, tips for playing your cards right—and saving a bundle—in Sin City.
Portland’s Retro Fit Hotel | T: The New York Times Style Magazine
For Alex Calderwood, Wade Weigel, Doug Herrick and Jack Barron — whose 79-room Ace Hotel opened in Portland, Oregon, last month — good design is about tapping into a city’s lifeblood.
In Miami Beach, Where Youth Is Still Served | The New York Times
Like the bronzed and barely clad bodies that saunter up and down Collins Avenue and Ocean Drive, South Beach is in a constant state of self-improvement. That’s especially true this season, as a wave of new bars, lounges and clubs put up their velvet ropes.
Surfacing: In Chicago, Slaughterhouses to Art Houses | The New York Times
Stand on West Fulton Market in Chicago at around 3 p.m. and witness an incongruous changeover. Forklifts hauling greasy pallets of sliced bacon clear out, as bright young things in stiletto heels and luxury cars roll in. This is Chicago’s meatpacking district.
Check In, Check Out: Seattle: Hotel 1000 | The New York Times
After surfing Hotel 1000’s website, which tallies the hotel’s many futuristic technologies (a tub that fills from the ceiling, infrared occupancy sensors), you may arrive at the hotel expecting a scene from the Jetsons. If so, the low-tech but stylish lobby will be a letdown. The hotel-of-the-future is actually behind the scenes.
Sonoma’s New Star | Travel + Leisure
With a mix of chic hotels, creative chefs, and stylish boutiques, Healdsburg, California, has emerged as a cosmopolitan hub that still pays homage to its rural Sonoma roots.
Happy Camper | Surface
Spain’s outdoor-loving footwear brand makes tracks into eco-conscious hospitality.
San Francisco’s New Heights | Departures
Long known as one of San Francisco’s great, if sleepy, antiques districts, Presidio Heights has recently sprung to action. Three years ago a handful of local shop owners founded the Sacramento Street Merchants Association with the goal of turning their tranquil tree-lined area into the Madison Avenue of the West Coast.