Hotel Tugu Bali has been around for almost two decades, but remains unique in a hotel scene that has plenty of beautiful luxury hotels but little in the ...
On February 15, 2015 / By Donna WheelerBelgium has so many small, beguiling places to stay, we could happily devote at least a couple of years to nothing but them. This beauty in Antwerp’s Jewish ...
On February 5, 2015 / By Donna WheelerKlaus Alber and Carmen Kruselburger realised their long-held dream of owning their own hotel in 2007 and have gradually transformed this alpine veteran into an absolutely contemporary, but ...
On February 1, 2015 / By Donna WheelerEnd of the earth ambience and an intriguing, sensitive refit of an early 20th-century industrial site? An unequivocal ‘si’ from us. The Pedro Kovacic-designed public spaces in this Puerto Natales hotel, once the heart ...
On January 2, 2015 / By Donna WheelerArchitects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin’s visionary early 20th-century blueprints for Australia’s new capital were never fully realised, but their mystical modernism lives on, cited as a key ...
On December 11, 2014 / By Donna WheelerSüdtirol’s quietly booming hotel scene is based on a centuries-old culture of hospitality. Gasthof Grüner Baum, one of my discoveries for the Lonely Planet Italy guide back in 2013, made ...
On November 20, 2014 / By Donna WheelerA few steps from Tozeur’s enormous palmeraie, at the heart of the medina, Dar Nejma hides behind its high brick walls. From the outside, nothing distinguishes it from ...
On November 2, 2014 / By Donna WheelerThe watery Veneto flat lands that fan out beyond Venice are a dreamy, disorienting world. Palazzo-stays are ubiquitous round here, but if you long for something less Palladian, Rosa Rosae ...
On October 30, 2014 / By Donna WheelerA low-slung 1920s ‘Riviera Red’ beauty, the Monte Carlo Beach sits right by a cyprus-circled beach and Olympic-sized saltwater pool. Once the scene of between-the-wars scavenger hunts and costume ...
On October 29, 2014 / By Donna Wheeler