Here are ten under-the-radar Parisian addresses from my new app, a selective and idiosyncratic selection of my favorite hotels, restaurants, shops and attractions in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Don't think of it as an all-inclusive guidebook, so much as a hand-drawn map of...
(0) Comments | Posted March 14, 2012 | 7:00 AM
In addition to several new properties in Chile and Paris, this month's Hideaway Report profiles BardessonoYountville as one of only three LEED Platinum-certified hotels in the country, but while its design may be sleek, its attitude is happily old-fashioned. Children and pets are welcome, and bicycle...
(3) Comments | Posted February 11, 2012 | 9:15 AM
This month's Hideaway Report focuses on several remarkable new safari lodges in Botswana and South Africa. Here, the sophistication of the suites and the standard of the cuisine are as crucial to the experience as the quality of the wildlife-viewing. I personally took all the photographs in this...
(0) Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 7:00 AM
Every January I publish a special Hideaway Report dedicated to my favorite hotel discoveries over the past calendar year: spas, pools, bars, suites and more. Here are some of this year's highlights.
(0) Comments | Posted January 26, 2012 | 6:00 AM
I have just returned from a multi-week stay in Chile, which included several days near the spectacular Torres del Paine National Park. On December 27, a fire broke out near the southern end of Lake Grey in the heart of the park. Abetted by drought conditions and strong winds, it...
(0) Comments | Posted February 4, 2011 | 2:40 PM
The Serengeti in Tanzania is the world's greatest national parks. Each January, when 2 million wildebeest and zebra give birth amid the heroic landscape of the southern grass plains, a scene of biblical splendor unfolds. Then, in April, the animals set off on the epic Great Migration.
All this...
(2) Comments | Posted December 1, 2010 | 5:09 PM
Some hotels are so integral to a city's history and so bound into the fabric of its social and economic life that they become synonymous with their locations. The Norfolk in Nairobi is like that. Or at least it used to be.
The first of my dozen or so visits...

(1) Comments | Posted May 10, 2012 | 7:00 AM