Soft landing pads in New York, Tokyo, London, and more.Uptown Revival
On a quiet, leafy street on the Upper East Side, just one block from Central Park, The Surrey originally debuted as a residence hotel in 1926. While the property, which lies within walking distance of The Met and the Guggenheim, attracted its share of high-profile guests, it didn’t radiate the same glam as the neighborhood’s other grand hotels – until now.
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Evrima is unlike anything else on the seas.We haven’t even departed Athens, but already I’m toying with a few changes to the itinerary. Over the next 11 nights, my wife, Ruth, and I are set to sail to Venice by way of some of the Mediterranean’s most storied and dramatic ports. We’ve got glorious-sounding shore adventures ahead throughout Turkey, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia. The only sticking point is, I’m suddenly not sure I ever want to get off this ship.
11/19/2024 An Adventurer’s Guide to Queenstown Local insight for your next stay on the Lake Wakatipu shore. Landing in Queenstown, New Zealand, feels like dropping into Neverland. Craggy peaks heavy with snow brood over the glassy waters of Lake Wakatipu, a glacier-sliced lightning bolt of a lake so long and deep it generates its own weather.
 A guide to chasing new horizons in the year ahead. A new year is a beautiful thing for devoted travelers: A blank calendar begs to be inked with departures to parts unknown. At Virtuoso, we’re on the case, polling our travel advisors and industry contacts for their on-the-rise, get-there-first vacation spots that deserve a slot on 2025 agendas.
The Atlantic Portuguese territory is always in bloom. "The Island of Eternal Spring” is just one of many nicknames for Madeira, the verdant, mountainous Portuguese territory off the coast of Morocco. It’s a place where bluebird days reign, an abundance of produce thrives on terraced hillsides, and the breeze is perpetually spiked with a floral scent – even on an autumn afternoon inching toward winter.
10/8/2024 Five Things We Love: Parilio
Finding lost charms in Greece’s Cycladic islands. In Greek mythology, Delos sits at the center of the Cyclades, but modern maps show Páros closer to the islands’ heart. The 75-square-mile Aegean oasis balances bohemian and cosmopolitan life in near harmony. One day, while visiting during summer’s peak,
 Exploring one of earth’s most biodiverse places on a carbon-neutral journey. We arrived by skiff to the muddy, fast-eroding riverbank of Peru’s San José de Paranapura, where family homes sit on stilts for flood protection. We’d come ashore to learn about medicinal rainforest flora from the village shaman. In a shelter, he lifted various plants into the air as our guide translated.
An insider’s view of the country’s cultural capital. We were somewhere around 90 minutes into a Sufi Muslim ceremony on the edge of the medina when the ants began to take hold. Figuratively, thankfully. But for the Hamadcha brotherhood chanting and swaying in front of us, they seemed very real.
José Ignacio is gaucho country. If you’re visiting Uruguay from the Northern Hemisphere, you’ll notice the moon appears upside down. Instead of spotting a “man” on its face, you might see a rabbit. The stars look different too.
Overnights for book lovers, Bond nerds, royal obsessives, and more. In The Big Hotel Report, we’re checking in on the world of luxe retreats now.
We’re calling it: London is one of the world’s most exciting luxury-hotel cities right now. Recent arrivals include outposts from hospitality stalwarts such as The Peninsula and Mandarin Oriental, long-anticipated new build The Emory, and the historically rich Raffles London at The OWO, with more to come – 50-plus hotels have opened or will debut in 2024. |
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