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Tablet Hotels

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Maybe it's because I grew up in Vancouver, where they never have enough hotel rooms and are constantly so over-priced I would rather not go.

But here Paris has 15 new hotels that have come online this year. That's a staggering amount of new hotel smell. Some of them look very cool.

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Hotel of the day: Pioneertown Motel, Pioneertown California 

How an old western movie set turned into a funky 19 room oasis in California via Tablet. 

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Volvo Cars y el buscador de hoteles online Table Hotels, presentaron una experiencia para sus clientes ofreciéndoles el “Get Away Lodge” en las montañas del norte de Suecia; un pacífico lugar para las personas que buscan reencontrarse con las cosas que los apasionan en la vida.

Presentado en conjunto con la estate wagon Premium V90 Cross Country, para todo tipo de clima, y como parte de la gran campaña que promueve la armadora para lograr un balance entre el trabajo y la vida familiar, Volvo hizo equipo con Tablet Hotels, el buscador original de hoteles online, para ofrecer una experiencia única en la nevada serenidad de las montañas suecas.

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Durante un periodo de tiempo limitado podrán hacer una reservación en el recóndito Get Away Lodge, situado justo a las afueras de la estación invernal de Are, en el condado de Jamtland, al norte de Suecia. El aspecto tradicional del refugio se ha renovado y decorado cuidadosamente con una mezcla de diseño y atención al detalle propios de los Escandinavos

El paquete incluye un nuevo Volvo V90 Cross Country. El station wagon premium para todo tipo de terreno y condición meteorológica mismo que incluye tracción en las cuatro ruedas, mayor distancia al suelo y los sistemas de seguridad y de asistencia al conductor más avanzados, perfectos para explorar los increíbles alrededores, las cercanas actividades al aire libre y el restaurante Faviken Magasinet, con dos estrellas Michelin.

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Rodeado de montañas nevadas, bosques frondosos y hermosos ríos, el exclusivo refugio cuenta con una habitación doble, una cocina totalmente equipada con una asombrosa vista panorámica de la montaña Areskutan y un salón con una gran chimenea. Además, hay un comedor, un estudio y una sala de yoga y contemplación, quemadores de incienso y velas. En el cuarto de equipo, se guarda todo lo necesario para practicar deportes de invierno como esquís, ropa de abrigo y botas de nieve. En consonancia perfecta con la marca Volvo, este destino ofrece la experiencia definitiva del lujo sueco.

Hay un servicio de atención permanente las 24 horas y 7 días de la semana a disposición a los residentes para reservar restaurante, recomendar aventuras al aire libre y asegurarse de que las antorchas del jardín del refugio ardan todas las noches.

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo Get Away Lodge

Volvo y Tablet Hotels ofrecen un escape de ensueño Volvo Cars y el buscador de hoteles online Table Hotels, presentaron una experiencia para sus clientes ofreciéndoles el “Get Away Lodge” en las montañas del norte de Suecia; un pacífico lugar para las personas que buscan reencontrarse con las cosas que los apasionan en la vida.

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Barefoot Brazil (via @TabletHotels)

The world needs Brazil,” says Emmanuel Rengade, and as the owner of two of the country’s finest small hotels, he should know. In part, he means that we need the fantasy. The Brazil of our imagination is a particularly honeyed vision of the good life — gregarious and sultry, with hammocks and caipirinhas. 

At least, that’s the Brazil in the minds of expats like Rengade, who grew up in France and was working a finance job in London when a backpacking trip through South America led him to chart a new course. Traveling along the verdant, sparsely inhabited coast south of Rio, he came across a charming old pousada in the tiny fishing village of Piçinguaba (population about 500). At the time it was rundown and abandoned, but he was immediately smitten. Within a few weeks he owned it, and set about turning it into an idyllic retreat.

His ten-room Pousada Piçinguaba is a place of simple pleasures: hammocks on the terraces, communal dinners under the stars, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards for cruising along the uncrowded beaches. Set on a gem-cut coastline of bays and coves and tiny uninhabited islands, it’s pure barefoot luxury.

That there’s no internet access and only the faintest of cell phone signals is simply part of the appeal. Being disconnected underscores the strong sense of place that’s been cultivated at Pousada Piçinguaba. The staff is entirely local, and the village is small enough that virtually the only tourists are guests of the hotel. But it also has a veneer of sophistication, thanks to Rengade’s social connections, taste in friends and ability to attract like-minded guests.

Once the pousada was going strong, Rengade became determined to buy a farm to supply its restaurant. When he found the right piece of land in the highlands outside São Paulo, he discovered that it came with an 1850s fazenda (farmhouse). Soon that farmhouse would become Rengade’s second small hotel, Fazenda Catuçaba, which opened in 2011.

Like Pousada Piçinguaba, Fazenda Catuçaba keeps things simple, the better for focusing on the profoundly peaceful natural environment. Surrounded by rolling green hills that are dotted with lakes, its ten rooms are spacious but homey, with big slate bathtubs that have staggering views. Guests freely wander through the kitchen where meals are prepared, and the staff is from the area. Yet even in such a casual atmosphere, a subtle glamour shines through. Artists in residence have included Pasha Radetzki, who created giant sculptures on the grounds. Brazil’s famous Campana brothers designed a chair for the lounge, and just unveiled an outdoor “bamboo cathedral” for dance, yoga and meditation. Star architect Marcio Kogan designed a handful of eco-houses, which Rengade is selling exclusively to friends and friends of friends.

To Rengade, however, it’s not about Kogan houses or Campana brothers art. It’s about the communities he’s creating, where guests, staff, owners, artists and local workers can come together. The world can use this, indeed.

by Ann Abel for Tablet Hotels

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Kicking off oki-ni's Paris City Guide and competition with Tablet Hotels, Rick Owens shares his top 5 Art Galleries. Explore them and then enter the competition here.

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The Jervois

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This isn't a good list of what to eat in Việt Nam. This is the high-end list. The safe list. It's just plugging the resorts.