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
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
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
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
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
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
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 the…
Top 15 cool and unusual hotels in Rome
I have been lucky enough to travel to numerous beautiful locations in my life so far but none of them can ever quite match up to Rome, which is, in my opinion, the most vibrant, beautiful and exquisitely cultural city in the world. It has everything; layers of history, amazing nightlife, heavenly cuisine, sunshine, sea…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Stockholm
Famous for its progressive politics, high standard of living, trend-setting design, inventive cuisine, Scandi Noirs, and seventies pop bands, the cool capital of Sweden is becoming an increasingly trendy travel destination. It’s an elegant and easy-on-the-eye city, spread across 14 islands and dotted with characterful neighbourhoods and cool architecture. With a juxtaposition of the old and the new, rows of…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Dublin
Dublin is the beautiful city of song and poetry and the inspiration to many an author over the years – Beckett, Yeats, Joyce… even the beloved Irish novelist Maeve Binchy put the city in the centre of a wonderful yarn or two. From the manicured St. Stephens Green and the beautiful architecture of Trinity College…