Visit Portugal celebrated the New Year launching a new campaign that was presented in Lisbon. #It’s not tourism. It’s futourism, is the motto for this campaign that sets 12 New Year’s resolutions for the tourist of the future.
Our Favorite Hotel Rooms With a View in 2023
21.12.2023 - 05:49 / cntraveler.com
Ah, a room with a view.
No, we are not talking about novels by E.M. Forster, nor Merchant Ivory films of the same name—although each of these works aim (and succeed!) in capturing the floating-on-air bliss provided by their namesakes. Many things go into making a hotel room great—design, comfort, dimensions—but you either have a great view or you don’t, and this last element is what makes the room and guest alike truly sing. After a year of traveling far and wide, our editors have returned with a bevy of experience after staying in some of the world’s best hotels and accommodations. But which of them sang the loudest? Below, find the rooms with the very best views that we stayed in this year. From the Maasai Mara to Hong Kong then round again to Rio, there’s a vista for everyone to enjoy.
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“Sometimes, the best view is just nothing,” writes Abigail Malbon of the miles and miles of countryside she could see from her window at this Alentejo hotel.
Sometimes, the best view is just nothing. Well, not nothing necessarily, but miles and miles of countryside, where wildflowers bloom and horses wander. For me, there are few places as beautiful as the Alentejo; the Portuguese interior where space feels bigger, sunsets are more colorful ,and people are just happier. São Lourenço do Barrocal is a special place that captures this laid-back beauty perfectly. The terraces outside the farmhouse rooms are a place of perfect calm, where sitting with a morning coffee is as rejuvenating as a 60-minute massage. I’m a city lover, but there’s really nothing like looking out onto the rolling hills, hearing every single sound of nature and breathing in the warm country air. It’s a place I return to in my head often when I crave peace, and I know I’ll cherish that view forever. —Abigail Malbon, contributor
The view from the Rome Cavaliere, which sits atop the city's highest hill, Monte Mario
The Rome Cavaliere, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, sits atop Rome’s highest hill, Monte Mario. And the hotel is wise enough to place terraces outside of each of the rooms. Come morning I would take my coffee outside, and watch the flaming pink sun rise over the entire city, lying low and thin before me, in the distance. I’d play a game, thinking of any of Rome’s monuments and frantically running my eyes across the skyline, jumping from the Wedding Cake to the Vatican to Castello St Angelo to the Coliseum to see how fast I could locate them, and in so doing, map out my day ahead (bonus, the hotel’s utterly divine Olympic pool is also visible, and during my August stay I would
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