An iconic Brooklyn party spot is now a new lifestyle hotel.
An iconic Brooklyn party spot is now a new lifestyle hotel.
Certain destinations in the US have a particularly hot Airbnb scene. Many of these are in California. San Diego, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and rentals near Palm Springs come to mind, but Sacramento Airbnb rentals are challenging Californian hosts with a focus on detail and offerings of amenities that will make a vacation to the state unforgettable. These properties sizzle with generous outdoor spaces with pools, beautifully furnished patios, backyard games, and interiors, which will have you planning your Pinterest board for a home renovation on your return. These are some of the best Airbnbs in Sacramento and the surrounding area that you need to bookmark now.
Dec 7, 2024 • 4 min read
At first glance, New York City might not scream intimacy—reservations get booked up weeks out, open bar stools are snatched up in seconds, and dates squeezed into overpacked schedules. But it's the potential—the low-lit room, delectable shared dish and bottle of red—that pushes New Yorkers to fall head over heels, if not with their date, then at least with the restaurant itself. This city's dining scene brims over with romance, thanks to visionary restaurateurs who have mastered the art of ambiance.
Nov 26, 2024 • 6 min read
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There is little doubt that New York City is one of the most delightful places to visit during the holiday season, in part thanks to the NYC Christmas markets around every corner. Seasonal shows like New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker and the Radio City Rockettes’ Christmas Spectacular, plus photo opps in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree or the decorated storefronts of Fifth Avenue are on many a visitor’s wishlist.
Uber on Wednesday announced several new features geared toward those booking rides to and from the airport.
Memphis is a soulful and historic city that’s become something of a magnet for young creatives and movers and shakers. It makes sense: The former stomping grounds of blues legend BB King, funkmaster Isaac Hayes, and rock-and-roll king Elvis Presley (whose Graceland mansion is open for tours) has a lot going for it, from live music and classic Southern cuisine to major landmarks like Beale Street. It’s also less than a four-hour drive south from Nashville.
Ready or not, November is here. And while there are plenty of reasons this particular November might not be everyone's favorite, there are still a lot of good things in store, like booking a trip to one of the incredible new hotels now open (detailed below) or snagging tickets to see the "Wicked" movie, which comes out later this month.
Oct 31, 2024 • 10 min read
Four Seasons Hotel New York, one of the most iconic hotels in the Big Apple, is officially reopening next month after years of closure. It's now accepting reservations for stays starting Nov. 15.
One of the challenges of living in a prominent transit hub like New York City can be navigating your way to and from its airports.
If you’re chronically online or often traveling like me, you may have seen one of the robots that are now staffing airports and restaurants, carrying your suitcases, and delivering your food. With the surge in AI, from Google’s AI overview to Chat GPT, artificial intelligence is the new frontier, and who knows where it might lead to next. For me, it led me to an Aescape AI robot massage at the glam Lotte New York Palace in Midtown East—yes, the very same property that served as a backdrop for some particularly iconic Gossip Girl moments. I’m no stranger to massages, and personally adore the experience of sinking into a calming, almost meditative state while a professional therapist works their magic and turns my body from a human stress ball into a melted pile of putty. So, when I was given the chance to try out a personalized, fully automatic treatment by a massage robot, I had to take it, if only to see if it could live up to the experience of the one-on-one human contact of a professional.
Sep 22, 2024 • 4 min read
When it comes to lifestyle hotels, few have as loyal a following as Kimpton. The brand is full of local flavor and trendy design, and it offers guests a real sense of place.
Sep 9, 2024 • 6 min read
Hyatt Hotels said Tuesday it planned to buy the brands of Standard International, owner of 21 open hotels across five hospitality brands, including the luxury lifestyle brand The Standard.
The tonka bean, a wizened-looking South American seed, is beloved for its complex almond-vanilla scent, often appearing as an ingredient in perfumes. Outside the United States, it has also long been utilized by chefs, but studies have indicated that coumarin, a chemical compound in the plant, can cause liver damage in animals, and the Food and Drug Administration banned the bean in commercial foods in 1954. Now, with reports that the minuscule amounts used to impart big flavor are harmless (and the F.D.A. seemingly not particularly interested in enforcing the ban in recent years), tonka is showing up on dessert menus here. Thea Gould, 30, the pastry chef at the daytime luncheonette La Cantine and evening wine bar Sunsets in Bushwick, Brooklyn, was introduced to tonka after the restaurant’s owner received a jar from France, where it’s a widely used ingredient. Gould says the bean is an ideal stand-in for nuts — a common allergen — and infuses it into panna cotta, whipped cream and Pavlova. Ana Castro, 35, the chef and owner of the New Orleans seafood restaurant Acamaya, discovered tonka as a young line cook at Betony, the now-closed Midtown Manhattan restaurant. Entranced by the ingredient’s grassy, stone fruit-like notes, she’s used it to flavor a custardy corn nicuatole, steeped it into roasted candy squash purée and grated it fresh over a lush tres leches cake. And at the Musket Room in New York’s NoLIta, the pastry chef Camari Mick, 30, balances tonka’s richness with acidic citrus like satsuma and bergamot. Over the past year, she’s incorporated it into a silky lemon bavarois and a candy cap mushroom pot de crème and whipped it into ganache for a poached pear belle Hélène. “Some people ask our staff, ‘Isn’t tonka illegal?’” she says. Their answer: Our pastry chef’s got a guy. —
Hotels are often agents of change in a neighborhood. That’s certainly true in New York, where buttoned-up Wall Street and the frenetic NoMad district, north of Madison Square Park, are just two of the beneficiaries of the city’s latest hotel boom. More than 40 properties have opened across the five boroughs since 2022, during apost-Covid rebirth that’sbrought freshenergy to long-overlooked pockets of Manhattan as well as to its most well-trodden quarters. Among these new arrivals are the Hotel Chelsea, a long-awaited revival of the venerable art-crowd hangout, and Nine Orchard, an elegant makeover of a 1912 bank building on the Lower East Side. Then there’s the Aman, the hushed retreat that opened two summers ago in the middle of Midtown. At least two more luxury hotels are planning to welcome guests next month: the Surrey, an Upper East Side landmark entirely remade by the Malta-based Corinthia Hotels group, and the Manner, an upscale sibling of the Standard hotels, in SoHo. Here, a closer look at five other attention-worthy newcomers:
Aug 7, 2024 • 7 min read
If you're a regular TPG reader, you know we believe that the best use of hotel points is for hotel stays — other uses are almost always a bad idea. This is because you typically lose value on your hotel points when you redeem them for other things outside of booking a hotel.
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