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Smart Traveller | CHECKING IN Making Room THESE SPECTACULARLY SITUATED LODGES, ROMANTIC RESORTS, REVIVED HISTORIC HOTELS, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD HUBS NOW INSPIRE US TO TRAVEL | BY ELAINE GLUSAC EPIC VIEWS PANORAMIC WINDOWS ONTO THE WORLD The canvas domed tents at Asilia’s The Highlands perch on the forested slopes of a volcano in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater area. The sustainable lodge is a perfect base for game drives to spot elephants, buffalo, zebras, and leopards (www.asiliaafrica.com; doubles from $430/`27,730; rates vary according to season; includes all meals, selected hikes, game drives, and transfers to/ from Manyara airstrip). Shades of blue saturate the sea-to-sky views from Le Barthélemy Hotel, on St. Barths’ Grand Cul-de-Sac beach (www. lebarthelemyhotel.com; doubles from €576/`39,450; includes breakfast, water sports, and transfers to/from airport or harbour). At Amanemu, private terraces Geodesic tents at Asilia’s The Highlands, in Tanzania offer the wildest views. ASILIA 58 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER INDIA | MAY 2017
Guests in the Great Room in Timber Cove, California, can kick back beside the fireplace and enjoy their extensive vinyl record collection. and onsen hot baths overlook forested islets and oyster rafts in Japan’s “Bay of Pearls” (www.aman.com; doubles from JPY1,10,000/`65,116; suites have private onsen baths). Explora Valle Sagrado, in Peru, looks up—and around—to a ring of serrated Andean peaks (www.explora.com; doubles from $3,244/`2,10,000 for 3 nights; includes meals, transfers to/from airport and railway station, all exploration tours). On the urban flip side, majestic Table Mountain fills the floor-to-ceiling windows at The Silo, in Cape Town, South Africa (www.theroyalportfolio. com; doubles from ZAR12,000/`57,500; includes breakfast and entry to Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opening September 2017). REVIVED ROYALTY GRAND HOTELS WITH FRESH MAKEOVERS Timber Cove, a 1963 Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired lodge, features new redwood-decked suites overlooking California’s Sonoma coast (www.timbercoveresort.com; doubles from $255/`16,450). The Beekman transformed a 19th-century building into Lower Manhattan’s destination hotel, thanks partly to the soaring ninestory atrium lobby (www.thebeekman. com; doubles from $399/`25,730). The reopened Hotel Royal Savoy, in Lausanne, restored its art nouveau exterior and appended a state-of-theart Swiss spa (www.royalsavoy.ch; doubles from CHF350/`22,450). The historic Pulitzer Hotel, in Amsterdam, added a courtyard sculpture garden, giant swings, and themed suites (www. pulitzeramsterdam.com; doubles from €314/`21,500). WHEN IN AMERICA TRENDY SPOTS WHERE TRAVELLERS AND LOCALS HANG OUT The Tilden Hotel, in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, brings in local poets and artists for rotating residencies (www.tildenhotel.com; doubles from$279/`18,000). Hotel Saint George shares an address—and a clever vibe— with the indie Marfa Book Company in Texas (doubles from $215/`13,900). Local acts perform at the music club at the Ace Hotel New Orleans, a community magnet in the Warehouse District (www.acehotel.com; doubles from $112/`7,200). The Williamsburg Hotel loans bikes for exploring Brooklyn (www.thewilliamsburghotel. com; doubles from $18,830 ), while Chicago’s The Robey opens doors to the arty Wicker Park neighbourhood (www.therobey.com; doubles from $195/`12,500). FOUND:RE Phoenix, which doubles as a gallery for area artists, embodies the Arizona city’s downtown revival (www.foundrehotels. com; doubles from $101/`6,500). LOVERS’ CORNERS HIDEAWAYS FOR ROMANCE The barrel-vaulted, 16th-century chapel at Masseria Trapanà, in southern Italy, provides a cosy setting for making —or renewing—vows (www.trapana. com; doubles from). Sandals Royal Caribbean, in Jamaica, introduces STACI MARENGO MAY 2017 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER INDIA 59
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