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
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