A playground of the young and the well-heeled, Miami is known for its glamour, hyper-tanned celebrities and bikini clad beautiful people. It’s a place in its own separate world, the locals here don’t follow the trends – they create their own…
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Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Palm Springs 2020
A true oasis in the midst of a long hot sprawling desert, Palm Springs has had a long history of attracting the Hollywood elite from major film directors to starlets looking for fun, relaxation respite from all the Los Angeles city hassles. The principal city of the famous Coachella Valley in California, the opulent resort…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Dallas 2020
Bold, brash, status-conscious but contrary to popular belief no oil of its own to speak of, ‘The Big D’ as it’s sometimes known, is a shiny and modern metropolis in North Texas, and the commercial and cultural hub of the region too. Known for its popular cliches of wealthy, consumer-driven Texan cowboys, being the site…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in San Diego 2020
One of the most open, smog-free and sunniest cities in the whole of the USA, San Diego – located on California’s Pacific coast – beguiles and charms many of its hundreds of thousand visitors. Feeling more like a collection of ultra-hip neighbourhoods each with its own character and personality, the affluent ocean-orientated city is famously laid-back…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Nashville 2020
The ultimate pilgrimage for country music lovers everywhere, Nashville attracts millions of toe-tapping, cowboy-booted party-loving visitors every year. A Southern city with a big heart and huge amounts of soul, the musical Mecca is easily one of the most fun – and hip – places to visit in the whole of America. Set by a…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Austin 2020
Austin is by far the hip, creative jewel in the Texan crown, unlike its sister cities Dallas and Houston it is an offbeat haven for free-thinkers and musicians, in fact, it hails itself as the Live Music Capital of the World. Well-known roots, country, blues and bluegrass festivals such as South by Southwest and Austin…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Boston 2020
This formidable force of a city is actually one of America’s oldest having being founded in 1634. The coastal-based Massachusetts capital has a proud past built on colonial roots and such fiercely defiant residents such as the Boston Tea Party (who wilfully and successfully protested against British rule). Today the city is a heady mix…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Bangkok 2020
A restless, hedonistic and delightfully chaotic metropolis and an essential part of any trip to the land of smiles, the Thai capital continues to bewilder, bemuse and please its many visitors often in equal measures. A unique city of contrasts and contradictions, here sprawling megamalls and shiny skyscrapers sit side-by-side with gold-spired temples where orange-robed monks wander…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in New Orleans 2020
One of America’s biggest party towns which has a worldwide reputation for having a joie de vivre quite like no other place on earth, New Orleans bewitches many a traveller who visits this famous Louisiana city. Located on the Mississippi River, the “Big Easy” is a vibrant melting pot with a dizzying array of vibrant cultures…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Chicago 2020
Once called “the pulse of America” the city that was founded in the early 1800s and resides on the mighty Lake Michigan in Illinois, is in many ways one of the USA’s greatest. Due to the sometimes blustery nature of the residents (and politicians!), the fact the city is quite a formidable force and also…