Commentary

Bon Voyage

The Top Hotels to Start 2024

The newly added hotels we’re most excited about to start the year. They might not be perfect, but nothing ever is.

Old Kyoto

Stopped Clocks and Restored Machiya Houses

Kyoto’s historic machiya houses are being repurposed as galleries, cafes, hotels, and more. It’s a symbol of a timeless city struggling to balance tradition against tourism.

Muy Auténtico

Oaxaca Knows What it Takes to Stay Unique

What does a naked protest against McDonald’s tell us about the boutique hotels of Oaxaca, Mexico? Everything.

Marilyn Slept Here

The Charlie's English Cottages Are a Hollywood Hotel

As Halloween nears, we turn to Hollywood for an intimate look at The Charlie. Built by Charlie Chaplin, filled with the whispers of his famous friends, it’s now open to you as one of America’s most distinctive hotels.

Only in Dreams

Surf Towns of the California Central Coast

Central California’s undiscovered, undeveloped, unpretentious surf villages are a dying breed. And for the unfamiliar, they probably seem too good to be true.

The Purge

Soho House Chooses Culture Over Corporate

Soho House saw the suits taking over their members clubs, and knew a spring cleaning was in order. Their purge is our gain, in the form of creative, comfortable, obsessively designed boutique hotels.