category: spa
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Painting the Town Pink: Berlin’s Nhow Hotel
This hip music-themed hotel is located right smack next door to Berlin’s branch of Universal Music. Guests can request Gibson and Epiphone electric guitars that come with their own amps, delivered straight to the room for impromptu jam sessions. The hotel has its own recording studio too, as well as an art gallery, and a lobby filled with drums interspersed among glowing seats that look like clouds.
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La Sultana Marrakech: A Luxury Hotel Fit for Sultans
I’ve never set foot in a more beautiful hotel. Words to describe it? Timeless. Graceful. Opulent. Stylish. Unique. Palatial. Every last detail of this hotel is pure perfection. Consisting of 5 riads (traditional Moroccan residences centered around a courtyard or garden) with 28 individually themed rooms total, La Sultana is a shrine to Moroccan design and craftsmanship.
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Desert Glamour at the Riviera Palm Springs
From the minute you pull up to this resort, you know you’re in for a treat. The Riviera is stylistically awe-inspiring. The lobby is lined with floor to ceiling walls ensconced in a floral lattice pattern. Illuminated from behind with glowing orange light, the walls are reminiscent of a designer honeycomb. Packed with retro furnishings, all this glitz is set beneath a sky of modern chandeliers descending from a ceiling studded with starlight bulbs.
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Romantik Hotel Julen, Zermatt, Switzerland
The Romantik Hotel Julen is a lovely place to stay in Zermatt, Switzerland, and the perfect romantic retreat. A sweet heart theme is carried out throughout, with heart candies, hearts on the doors, on your robes—everywhere. The place really looks like something out of a storybook fairytale. The rooms are the best treat with wooden ceilings and walls throughout, accented by colorful curtains with big bow ties and faux candle chandeliers.
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Klaus K: Epic Design in Helsinki
Klaus K is a design hotel inspired by the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, and “inspired” is definitely an apt description of the thoughtful aesthetic of this incredible hotel. Design details abound — in the lobby and the rooms, but also in unexpected places like the elevators, wallpaper, and carpet.
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Spa Report: The Moroccan Hammam
When in Morocco, you can’t miss the traditional Moroccan hammam, or Turkish-style steam bath. There are a variety of public and private hammams ranging from uber-luxurious spa experiences, like the hammam at La Sultana in Marrakech, to simple public bathhouses.
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At Home in Marrakech: Riad Kniza
Instead of staying in a traditional hotel, experience a slice of Moroccan culture by staying in a riad, or small hotel converted from a traditional Moroccan home or palace centered around a courtyard or garden. Marrakech is bursting with stylish luxury riads, many of them European-owned. For a taste of something more authentic, check out Riad Kniza. This is one of the city’s most luxurious riads, which also happens to be Moroccan-owned.
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The Grand Hyatt Macau: A Luxurious Retreat on the Cotai Strip
The Grand Hyatt Macau is a luxurious haven of sunlight and glass set along the pearl river delta. A perfect retreat from the hustle of Macau island, the newly-opened Hyatt offers an elegant, secluded space to unwind in the midst of Macau’s next hot spot: the Cotai strip.
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The St. Regis Beijing—Decadent Digs in the Northern Capital
The St. Regis in Beijing is one of China’s most luxurious hotels, providing every imaginable comfort a traveler could dream of. Perhaps the most striking tribute to aesthetics in the lobby are the sea of delicate multi-tiered glass chandeliers, enshrouded with elegant lampshades, descending from the ceiling like jellyfish.