For a civilized drink without cover bands, you'll find Allred's (970-728-7474; allredsrestaurant.com), a rustic-chic lodge with craft beers on tap ($7).
Perched on a hilltop in the Costa Vincentina National Park is Monte Velho (www.i-escape.com/montevelhonatureresort.php), a rustic-chic lodge with colourful rooms, long views and hammocks under the eaves.
Farther north, in Vermont, Stowe Mountain Resort is opening the Stowe Mountain Lodge (802-253-3560; www.comwemountainlodge.com), a 139-room rustic-chic lodge that will be the centerpiece of a 35-acre alpine village at the base of Spruce Peak, the resort's more luxurious half.
ICEHOTEL: Jukkasjärvi, Sweden You have to love winter to enjoy a stay at ICEHOTEL, since this chic Swedish lodging crafted entirely of ice literally melts to nothing every spring and is rebuilt again from scratch the following season.
Ski lodge chic has arrived in Austria in the form of Lech's Aurelio (aureliolech.com), a no-expense-spared boutique property owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, where the walls are clad in "flash roasted" pine, complemented with the finest French fabrics and Asian furniture.
For something that is very off the beaten path, venture north to the new Chic-Chocs Mountain Lodge, (800) 665-3091, www.chicchocs.com, the first true mountain lodge in eastern Canada.
For the moment, however, the Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge, which opened in February, is the newest and perhaps the most chic example of the lodge phenomenon.
In the grounds, there are also two chic, en suite tented lodges, each sleeping six.
"The hunting-lodge-chic trend really has legs," Mr. Tusher said.
After the sweaty, mosquito-filled safari, travellers can retire to the rustic-chic Lamanai Outpost lodge, where mood-lit rooms lie nestled on the riverbank near the vast and crumbling pre-Columbian Maya city of Lamanai.
