Nowhere is this more evident than in Florence, where a slew of superb hotels, including a new Four Seasons there, set in a Renaissance palazzo, the Hotel Lungarno, and Villa San Michele are now among the finest hotels in Europe.
A case in point is this superb boutique hotel between the acropolis and bay of the medieval town of Lindos.
We stayed at the superb Termag hotel and lived like oligarchs do in the Alps (I imagine).
There is even a superb new hotel built in Sikkim style with excellent food and rooftop terraces where you can gaze - all day long if you wish - at a row of family snow-capped Himalayans peaks.
There are some superb luxury hotels, but with the Swiss franc so strong against our puny pound, you'll need deep pockets to enjoy them.
The winner will receive a pair of air tickets courtesy of British Airways, as well as three nights each in superb Fairmont hotels in Montréal and Québec City plus VIA Rail train tickets between the two cities.
For that reason, as well as for the fact that they are trained to make people feel at home and the top ones usually have superb kitchens, hotels are a great place to celebrate the holidays.
There's no shortage of amazing architecture, superb cuisine, hotels featuring every amenity imaginable, shopping galore and creative diversions to amuse even the most bored billionaire.
Posted by Jessica R La Casona (hotellacasona.com.mx) is a superb small boutique hotel... one of my favorites in the world!
Neither the most upsetting episodes in Philip Gourevitch's unforgettable nonfiction account, "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families," nor the dramatized outrage that powers Terry George's superb political melodrama "Hotel Rwanda" made me feel the massacre the way Akpan's story does.
