Atlantis Bahamas
Our room at the Atlantis was beautiful. But let’s be honest. You don’t come to the Atlantis to sleep. As a family with a toddling baby, we needed to make sure there was enough for him to do.
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Our room at the Atlantis was beautiful. But let’s be honest. You don’t come to the Atlantis to sleep. As a family with a toddling baby, we needed to make sure there was enough for him to do.
Located in Leith — Edinburgh’s bustling port district — the Malmaison is within walking distance of a United Nations-variety of restaurants.
The WaterColor Inn & Resort, named for the small planned town it fronts on the Panhandle’s charming Route 30A (between Destin and Panama City) is one of those hotels that has had a surprisingly good reputation from the start, for no particular reason. The proof is in the fact that everytime you try to book a stay, the rates are astronomical. That is, if you can even get a room. Hassle! Just to make a visit more difficult, you can no longer fly nonstop to the region. Already, you’re wondering: Why not just go to the Caribbean?
Who hasn’t dreamed of living in a castle? In the Orkney Islands, visitors can fulfill that dream by booking a night or two at Shapinsay’s Balfour Castle.
I’ve stayed at Four Seasons properties and the Bellagio in Las Vegas. But I can honestly say that Aberdeenshire’s quaint Frog Marsh Bed & Breakfast was one of my favorite places.
When people hear the word “lodge” they tend to think of something rustic. Nowhere is the fallacy of this assumption more wonderfully apparent than in stunning New Zealand, where a slew of lodges, numbering in the hundreds, are rapidly gaining in popularity. These lodges, which promote themselves with themes (nature, fishing, wine and more) in an effort to lure visitors from afar, are as sumptuous as they are varied.
During a recent trip to Scotland, I stayed at a boutique hotel in Edinburgh, a grand castle in Shapinsay and a quaint bed & breakfast in Stromness.