Hotels have seen it all. Affairs, murders, political intrigue and the occasional guest who leaves with the bathrobe rolled up in their carry-on. But a handful of rather famous people took the hotel stay one step further … and checked…
Read More Checked In, Never Checked Out: Famous Hotel Deaths (Part One)
Best Beds has had a makeover. Frankly, it was overdue. I’ve slept in hundreds of hotels. Grand palaces, tiny boutiques, architectural showpieces, and a few places where I’d have happily traded the bed for a bench at the airport. I’ve…
There are few things I consider worth getting out of bed for at 4:30 in the morning. A flight to somewhere fabulous, perhaps. A particularly spectacular sunrise. But watching a group of Japanese men get terribly excited about dead fish?…
Read More Tokyo’s Tuna Auction: Big Fish, Big Money and a Very Early Alarm Clock
Champagne, caviar, double beds and showers at 38,000 feet. Who said the golden age of flying was over? There was a time when simply getting on an airplane was glamorous. People dressed for it. Champagne came in actual glasses. Meals…
Read More If You Can’t Fly Private… The Best First Class in the Sky
There are luxury trains... and then there is the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. The original Orient Express began running in 1883, but today’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express was launched in 1982 after American entrepreneur James Sherwood tracked down and painstakingly restored historic carriages from…
Ah Milan… or Milano da bere… “Milan to drink.” The phrase came from a gloriously 1980s Ramazzotti advertising campaign and became shorthand for fashionable, prosperous, pleasure-loving Milan. Beautiful clothes, fast cars and cocktails before dinner. Not a terrible philosophy for…
