Visits: 27 Muscat, the capital, offers opulent culture, but it is the mountains and the sea that bedazzle. High in the mountains of Oman and along its pounding shoreline, I stumbled onto an unexpected slice of heaven thanks to a …
Hotel Stationery Becomes the Canvas for Scenes From the Road
Visits: 28 Michael McGregor uses letterhead to sketch places and things from his life as a traveler. In 2016, Michael McGregor was in his early 30s, living in Mexico City and hanging out with a group of local architects and …
Romeo Gigli’s New Gig
Visits: 20 The pull of fashion mythology — the current obsession with Dior-era John Galliano or the Apple TV+ mini-series “The New Look” — suggests we are at peak nostalgia. It makes one wonder why someone hasn’t done a book …
Hotel Corazon Wants to Host Your Hot Girl Summer
Visits: 39 Forget Ibiza. A hip new hotel opening underscores how many in the style set opt for the charms of Majorca instead. The Serra de Tramuntana is a mountain range that runs along the northwestern edge of the island …
The Hotel That Started as a Gift Shop
Visits: 43 Shannon Maldonado quit her job in fashion design to open a home-goods store, Yowie. Now she’s opening a Yowie hotel where nearly all the décor is for sale. When she was growing up, Shannon Maldonado wanted to be …
Is It Time for a ‘White Lotus’ Vacation?
Visits: 19 Things turn out badly for most of the show’s well-heeled characters. But that hasn’t stopped some fans from booking a trip. For some fans of “The White Lotus,” watching the show was not enough. They want the full …
What Makes a Room Unforgettable?
Visits: 28 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Ace Hotel New York. The Chicago Athletic Association. The NoMad hotel in London. Goop’s store in Los Angeles. The Reykjavik Edition hotel, in Iceland. The Boom Boom Room. These are all some …
For Sale: The ‘Sexiest’ Hourly Rate Hotel in Manhattan
Visits: 24 The Liberty Inn, the last hourly rate hotel in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, sits alone on a tiny triangular block beside the West Side Highway. Its website bills its rooms as the “most sexiest” in the city, and for …
Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves
Visits: 23 Nine Orchard is a boutique destination for a neighborhood that isn’t sure it’s a neighborhood. “I won’t tell you the molding story, but there’s a lot to the molding,” Andrew Rifkin said, standing inside a room in Nine …
Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks
Visits: 30 Health declaration forms and virus tests. Quarantine-on-arrival (and on return) requirements. Infection rates that change by the day and labyrinthine middle-seat policies that require an advanced degree to decipher. Combine those new hurdles with the ability to work …