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Luxury Getaways
Classical Baby Grand Hotel Location This whimsical hotel is situated in the vibrant downtown area on Athinas Street, facing Kotzia Square, next to City Hall. Highlight Enter through designer Socratis Socratous’ garden-like foyer and go upstairs to reception, which is furnished with two Mini Cooper convertibles. Thing to do Enjoy breakfast in the orange-hued, glass-floored restaurant overlooking the blue-coloured Classical Spa Carita. Room to book Graffiti rooms are named after popular cartoon characters. Room 403, for instance, is Spider-Man, with scarlet and black furnishings and white walls painted with action poses. Rooms 76. GM Spyros Kouris.
Hyatt on the Bund Location This modern, minimalist hotel is on the west bank of the Huangpu River, near the Bund historical waterfront. Cuisine The rooftop restaurant, designed by the avant-garde Super Potato team, offers stunning views alongside chef Dieter Lengauger’s eclectic cuisine. The outside
Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village Location Nestled in the Santa Monica foothills, this luxury hotel is about 40 minutes north of Los Angeles International Airport, depending on traffic. Cuisine Everything from chef Sandro Gamba is organic and healthy, and there is a glass-walled dietetic cooking school in the hotel. Thing to do The adjoining California Health & Longevity Institute offers preventive medical checkups, complete with specialist assessments. Insider tip Visit in summer for one of the regular Spa Soirees. Around the outdoor pool – decorated with dozens of floating white Pilates balls – the buttercup-yellow cabanas become complimentary mini-treatment rooms, although on-the-spot Botox injections cost extra. Rooms 269. GM Thomas Gurtner. Editors’ Choice What made enRoute’s stay.
1 Bringing our own wine to a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless at the private cinema of Auberge Saint-Antoine in Quebec City. 888-692-2211, saint-antoine.com 2 The freshly ground coffee beans and French press delivered daily to our penthouse suite at the Oswego Hotel in Victoria, B.C. 250-294-7500, oswegovictoria.com 3 The personalized get-well-soon haiku notes sent to our room when we were under the weather at the new Hotel Indigo in Ottawa. 613-231-6555, ottawadowntownhotel.com 4 Sipping premium cognac and puffing on a Cohiba in a vault-turned-cigar bar at Prague’s Carlo IV Hotel, itself a former bank. 5 Luxuriating in antique linens in Anouska Hempel’s white-on-white-on-white Corfu Suite (rumoured to be the Beckhams’ favourite) at Blakes Hotel in London.
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Mary Gostelow is the editor-in-chief of WOW.travel, the online magazine of