*Trendy spaces in idyllic surroundings* This boutique hotel in Laguna Beach, California is a special design hotel created by the famous Horst Architects. They have created a contemporary design in conversation with the quaint aesthetics of Laguna Beach. They used reclaimed wood from buildings demolished in east LA, over 100 ...

*Living the High Life* Canyon Ranch Lenox is a destination spa resort in The Berkshires in Massachusetts. It consists of an inn, an enormous Spa Complex and the Bellefontaine Mansion – a private residence built in 1897 and has seen action as a seminary and boarding school before being reopened ...

*Champion of Downtown* The Wit Hotel has an enviable location on the corner of State and Lake near to Chicago’s business district, theatre town and Millennium Park. The 27-story building was built in 2009 and reflects the vibrancy of the local area with a kickass lightning bolt running the length ...

*Eastern-Influenced San Francisco* This hotel occupies the top 11 floors of the 48-floor 345 California Center building. The twin towers of the building are a 45 degree angles relative to the rest of the building which makes for a dazzling – if trippy - stay. The vibe is distinctly oriental, ...

*Experiments in Organic Living* This hotel is an Organic Bed & Breakfast and Ecology Resource Center which means they have amazing gardens overflowing with flowers, hand-built guestrooms using ethically-sourced materials and a lovely courtyard and tea room. Much of the hotel has been made from recycled materials. There are buildings ...

*Sky High Everything* Located in the 92-story glass skyscraper in Chicago’s famous skyline, Donald Trump, in typically bombastic style, opened this hotel while it was still being built. Now it is completed, when you stay here you will be a short walk away from several Chicago landmarks such as Marina ...

*Hip Post-Nonsense Hotel* Boeing (as in the airplane company) was founded here, so to commemorate that you'll find riveted metal cocktail tables to rest your specially crafted beverage. The massive circular fireplace in the Living Room which houses the resident DJ high above, riffs on a forest ranger look-out tower, ...

*The Maritime History Hotel* Esopus Creek is one of the essential tributes of the Hudson River. When the Europeans began to settle in America, the creek soon became an important trade route for the natives and the newcomers. As the first 200 years of settlement fly-by we see towns and ...

For over 50 years (which is ancient history in American time) the Madonna Inn has been welcoming travelers with its eccentric and luxurious take on the essential roadside Motel. Choose from 110 themed rooms from “Caveman” to “Elegance”, “Jungle Rock” to “Bridal Falls”. The Inn has a famous bakery where ...

This Glen Ellen inn was built in the 1800s by businessman, Albert Ebenezer Gaige. There was a butcher’s shop below and living quarters above. At some point in the intervening century, the house began to be used as an inn and remains so to this day. A Spa was added ...

Palm Springs is an American resort popular with celebrities and people who with a passion for living. The Saguaro stands in the resort with a youthful colour scheme inspired by desert flowers. Famous architects, Stamberg Aferiat designed the colours and interiors and used the rainbow as a concept that flows ...

*It could be hobbit-forming* It’s not the adorable fairy houses, nor the fact this self-catering accommodation has been carved out of a hillside; it’s the attention to detail that makes this secluded getaway so impressive. Set in acres of private land in the broad Montana wilderness, you find yourself completely ...

Among the Kimono shops and brooding Yakuza members in San Fransisco’s Japan Town there is a hotel devoted to Manga and Japanese pop culture. The lobby continuously plays old Godzilla movies. Buy your snacks from a robot vending machine. Like Manga? Who doesn’t? These incredible murials are originals by contemporary ...

*The most adventure you can have indoors* In most hotels, you go out in the morning, have an adventure and return in the evening. Not here. Because at Adventure Suites the adventure never ends. How? Because your whole room is an adventure. Choose from 16 suites. Travel to Rome and ...

Alaska is one of the few frontiers left in the world. Its thick forests are home to moose, bears and the occasional flinty-eyed huntsman. Your Alaskan lodge is a traditional log cabin built in the old bushman style. The furniture is all hand-carved and made locally. The five cabins are ...

Las Vegas hotels are known for their suites and Palms Casino Resort has the biggest, loudest and best suites on offer. Out of huge plate glass windows a sea of light stretches before you for miles and miles, it’s just Vegas and then you turn away from the view and ...

*Bolster your culture* Mexico’s famous hoteliers, Grupo Habita chose New York as the location for their first hotel north of the boarder. Known for designing stylish spaces, they fixed on a façade of sleek metal cladding so you know you are about to experience something a bit special. Inside, the ...

*Off-the-grid adventure in a treehouse* There are a lot of treehouse hotels in the world. Some of them are just little houses on stilts while others are a mere 2 meters from the ground. But not this one, oh boy, this is the treehouse five year-old children dream of. And ...

Set in the blisteringly beautiful hills, planes and beaches of Big Sur in California, The Post Ranch Inn has long been part of the local area. In the early 20th Century explorer William Brainard Post was one of the first settlers in the area which was still largely uninhabited, he ...

As this resort is owned and run by Kate Pierson, the singer from The B52s, it’s going to be hard for me to write this without making a pun about the song ‘Love Shack’… oh wait, she’s beaten me to it, apparently you can stay in an actual Love Shack ...

By 1874 it became clear that a lighthouse was needed to mark the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The US government, unable to find a suitable location for the lighthouse, took over East Brother Island. Using dynamite to level the island, they built a lighthouse that remains there to this ...

Way before David Beckham kicked a football Beckham Creek was hanging around being beautiful and waiting to be discovered. Now a 280 acre estate, the centerpiece is the amazing cave lodge. It took four years to build with the outside façade full of windows to let light into the cave. ...