For International Women’s Day, ten women from the Relais & Châteaux family reveal their vision of hospitality—and how they are meeting the challenges facing the industry following the pandemic.
The story of the camp Jabulani is one of love and hope. Tamlin Wightman discovers a deep connection in an unusual place: with a herd of rescued elephants in the wilderness of South Africa.
Glenapp Castle rises up grandly from the tall trees encircling, a vision of slate roofs, crenellated towers, and daunting walls of rosy stone, all straight out of a Walter Scott novel. Today, this fortress built on Scotland’s southern coast, is an entrancing hotel bursting with surprises.
I’ve come to this remote pocket of America's wild west, in Southern Colorado not to run from the law, but to experience winter at Dunton Hot Springs. Snow season may be the best kept secret at this former mining town turned rustic-luxe.
For anyone who has lived in New York, one of the city’s great pleasures is that there are so many choices for an escape, from the beaches to woods to lakes and mountains, from grand estates to small sailing hamlets. All within driving distance or a short train journey.
After the short flight from Vancouver to Calgary, our travelling photographer Joann Pai and her friend Tina hit the road to Banff National Park and the Post Hotel managed by the Schwartz family in Lake Louise. She tells us all about her stay at the heart of pristine beauty in Western Canada.
Understanding South Africa, its history and the art which has accompanied its ongoing convulsions takes a little time, but perhaps the most important thing is to have a starting point. D'Ellerman House to Delaire Graff Estate including AtholPlace, Mr. Tripper makes us travel with the thread of art.
Milan may be Italy's industrial powerhouse, a fashion and business capital that's better known for work than play. Whatever brings you to town, Chateau Monfort will whisk you through the looking glass to a charmed land of Art Nouveau architecture, woodland creatures and pretty pastels.
Since it opened this September, having drawn 100,000 visitors in less than three weeks, the Victoria & Albert Museum has electrified the small coastal town of Dundee. As beautiful on the outside as it is on the inside, it has become the key attraction in a region that more than merits being explored
On the shores of Lake Atitlán, ancient Mayan culture is kept alive in bustling villages lying in the shadow of towering volcanic peaks. Colorful, history-laden and with shimmering lake views all around, Casa Palopó evokes the spirit of Guatemala at every turn.
The smallest 5-star hotel in the Italian Alps is probably also the coziest boutique place to keep in mind for a couple getaway. Everywhere you look is all about the perfect balance between romance, amazing nature and design with character.
Spanish Balearics archipelago offers plenty of fascinating places from small historic towns to unspoilt sandy beaches with clear seas and remote rocky coves. Ibiza is the third and last stop of the photographers duo Arturo Bamboo and is once again a paradise for travelers.
There's a special atmosphere on France's Jade coast. Not far from the picture-perfect ports of neighbouring Brittany, facing the ocean, you will find Anne de Bretagne Hotel, known for its outstanding two-Michelin-star restaurant.
Enigmatic, wondrous, a moonscape and marine paradise… Réunion Island is a land of great contrasts and sights that shine a light on the power of our planet, whether you're high up in a helicopter or standing with your feet in the Indian Ocean.
It looks much like the venerable estates in the television series Downton Abbey. Yet Cliveden House possesses a history and heritage beyond anything in that drama. An extraordinary hotel of rare beauty, the place for all those who have always dreamed of spending a night in a museum.
Just an hour’s drive from Vienna, and a few minutes’ walk from immense Lake Neusiedl is a small collection of country houses dubbed the Taubenkobel. This unique hotel mixes traditional country charm with modern art, and features one of the country’s best restaurants.
In which the writer and her canine companion explore The Ivy, the historic Mount Vernon manse that holds some of Maryland's best history – and most outstanding restaurants. Get ready to be surprised.
Menorca might just be the best-Balearic secret, it's the calmest, least developed and greenest of all. After Mallorca, let's travel in the hotel Can Faustino for the second step of our Balearics' trip.
Hidden amidst the medieval White City of Ostuni in Puglia, La Sommita is a tucked-away palace, beckoning world-weary guests to take pause. With a Michelin star restaurant, blissful views over rugged terrain and modern suites with historical accents, it provides an amazingly restorative stay.
It was another beautiful sunny day in Costa Rica and we were ready to discover Nayara Springs, a resort located in the Arenal Volcano National Park, promising us an intimate and luxurious experience.
Kitzbühel boasts a beautiful mix of a medieval Tirolean town centre and a great ski area set against a spectacular backdrop of jagged and rugged mountains. The intimate Hotel Tennerhof just outside the centre offers panoramic views over the town, the legendary Hahnenkamm and surrounding mountains.
Huge expanses of lakes, stately trees and untamed nature… Vancouver Island is an island wilderness embraced by the Pacific Ocean. And it's here that we find our destination: the Wickanninish Inn. It's a place where time stood still for us.
The Dutch duo Arturo Bamboo embarks on a new intimate getaway scheme, camera in hand. This time, they immortalize legendary winter places in Austrian Alps with very personal shots. First stop: the historic inn Gasthof Post, located in the renowned winter sports resort of Lech.
Kenya plains provide spectacular scenery and nature. Ol Donyo Lodge and Mara Plains Camp offer to discover local wildlife and predators that thrive in this majestic nature during traditional safaris.
Life slows down at Blackberry Farm. The warm breeze lingers for a moment mid-air, before brushing past my skin. Birds sing a soft, languid tune. Trees sway gently under the rising sun, casting mottled light onto the footpath below.
Nancy Novogrod, former Editor in Chief of Travel + Leisure, shares her thoughts on merging with nature at the “Wick” in Canada.
There is an anonymous quote that reads, “You keep me wild, I’ll keep you safe.” It keeps finding me. Perhaps because it can hear the call for the wild in me...
Le Petit Nice's story begins like a film. The date is 1917. The location is Marseille, next to the sea. A countess leaves her neo-classical villa and crosses the street to make a phone call from the bar across the way. She informs her real estate agent of her desire to sell the villa...
“Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo…” ― Dean Koontz
A driver meets you at the ferry, which is a good thing, because the drive to Anacapri is the least relaxing experience you’ll have here — 4 kilometers of steep switchbacks on a road barely wide enough for one Vespa to pass another. But then arrival is instantly calming.
The Marquis Faubourg Saint-Honoré is the favorite of those enchanted by Paris. The most beautiful city in the world is at your doorstep; explore its refined art of living and remarkable cultural treasures.
Four cows for every inhabitant. Located an hour's drive west of Dublin, County Laois is prime Irish farming country.
Treat yourself to a springtime getaway with Relais & Châteaux.
A 90-minute train ride to the south west of Tokyo is Asaba, a 500-year-old ryokan in a small village known for one of the oldest hot springs on the Izu Peninsula. Since our recent visit, it has become the sole destination of our continued daydreams.
In Japan, the arrival of spring brings with it the promise of cherry blossoms - sakura in Japanese - and beautiful landscapes that range from white to pronounced pink. It is a time for celebrating life and calls for picnics in the parks, sitting below the cherry trees to enjoy all their beauty.
Only an hour after arriving at The Ivy in Baltimore, Jessie and I raced down the dramatic staircase, past the stunning stained glass windows, to the first floor of the historic, 19th century mansion-turned-hotel for afternoon tea. What could be a better way to kick off a girls’ getaway weekend?
Recommended by a renowned French food critic, the nearby Abbaye de la Bussière proved the ultimate locale to experience and reflect on Bourgogne’s rich beauty, history and peacefulness.
At special hotels there’s a fine art to the arrival. At the Charlotte Inn each part of the journey becomes more and more intimate.
Cape Town’s greatest art collection lies neither in a museum nor a gallery, but in the city’s most exclusive hotel, Ellerman House. Here, guests eat, drink, sleep, and live with South Africa’s masters of the past, present, and future.
For the last forty years, Christine and Michel Guérard have spread the word of 'well-being' across each square millimetre of their estate Eugénie Les Bains, a small village in Landes known worldwide for the virtues of its springs.
It was the first thing to catch my eye upon arriving at Gajoen: a huge rooster strutting down the path. Pretty incredible, right? With its traditional Japanese style, the hotel has no need for the typical trappings used to create a feeling of Zen. Therein lies its charm, its ability to venture off the beaten path.
Up the valley from St. Moritz, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, is the town of Brail, home to the family-run In Lain Hotel Cadonau.
We return to Italy for enlightenment, of course. For churches and squares, frescoes and portraits, Titian and Giotto. But we also return for reassurance, for straightforward pleasures refined over time that somehow feel a little bit better in Italy.
Cove beaches, cliffside forests, 220 kilometers of coasts plunging into the Mediterranean, so many are the attractive features of Costa Brava.
Paris is something else entirely. It has its own light. The Saint James Paris is in the middle of it all, but just left of center enough to feel like an oasis—like your own chateaux in the city.
When you think of the ideal place to visit in the American West you think of a lodge or a ranch in a vast, dramatic setting. You want to be in an open space that makes where everything feels big and enchanting.
Head to the north of Majorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands. Forty-five minutes along the road to the capital Palma, within a lush green setting, you will find the hotel Son Brull.
If you want to make the effort, Seoul has its secrets, magical places where old souls can still be seen.
Yihe Mansions and its grand old villas is the place in China to feel the nostalgic feeling of the Republic Style.
Where in America can you go to feel like Talitha Getty at the height of her bohemian splendor? Wildly original and deeply, thoughtfully luxurious, The Inn of the Five Graces in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the ultimate gypsy style retreat.