SaSaab On the banks of Kenya’s Ewaso Nyiro river, this lodge (above) offers an uplifting coffee scrub after a long day spent on a dusty camel-back sojourn. Treatments are performed in open-air pavilions and include soothing rubs using African Abor oil Coach Bags Outlet, aloe and frankincense, all processed by local women. Doubles from $620 per person, all-inclusive.
Gernot Langes Swarovski, the patriarch of the Austrian crystal empire, recently opened Sparkling Hill Resort in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. More than three million crystals (and $122 million) went into the construction of the hotel, with an angular atrium that refracts light up to 10 miles away and a ‘‘cold sauna’’ that stays at a chilly -162 degrees.
Atelier Bow-Wow Droog creative agency’s 10-room hotel.
Laurence Graff hired David Collins to design the Delaire Graff Estate lodge and spa for visitors to Graff’s Stellenbosch, South Africa, tasting room. The 10 gorgeous lodges, each with its own pool, have become the flophouses of choice for travelers planning to overdo it on the Shiraz.
Nefta, Tunisia, is emerging as an alt-Marrakesh. The designer Matali Crasset is opening her Dar Hi eco-resort here, with sandstone ‘‘pill houses,’’ ‘‘troglodytes’’ and ‘‘dunes’’ that encourage interaction with the desert landscape. dar-hi.net.
1929: Chateau Marmont opens as apartments.
1931: Operating at a loss during the Depression, the property is sold and
reopens as a hotel to the stars.
1933: Jean Harlow honeymoons with her new husband, one year after Groom No. 2
is found dead in their L.A. home; she also has a concurrent affair with Clark Gable.
1950s: Howard Hughes runs his media and airline empire from the Chateau’s penthouse. A reclusive Greta Garbo recedes into the hotel for weeks at a time.
1955: The director Nicholas Ray (age 43)
has sex with his ‘‘Rebel Without a Cause’’ star, Natalie Wood (17), in Bungalow No. 2. Wood’s angered boyfriend, Dennis Hopper, spreads the word.
1971: Jim Morrison dangles from a rain
gutter while trying to enter his room through the window.
1982: John Belushi overdoses in Bungalow No. 3.
1990: André Balazs buys and starts renovating the hotel, to much starlet delight.
1990s: Johnny Depp claims to have made love to Kate Moss in every room of the hotel.
2004: Rumors fly that Scarlett Johansson got down and dirty with Benicio del Toro in an elevator. (She denies it.)
2007: Britney Spears added to hotel ‘‘Black List’’ after smearing food on her face.
Sofia Coppola’s latest cinematic dreamscape, ‘‘Somewhere’’ (right), celebrates life at the Chateau Marmont, Hollywood’s A-list stomping ground. But the film is by no means the first word on celebrity kerfuffles at the castle-esque hotel. It’s where Elizabeth Taylor nursed Montgomery Clift back to health in Room 3F after his near-fatal car accident and, more recently, where Lindsay Lohan headed after one of her run-ins with the law. Here, a timeline of Chateau lore.
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Nothing draws a crowd like a boldface designer. Yet these five high-style hotels have managed to fly under the radar — until now.
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In Hokkaido, Japan, Alexandra Champalimaud is reimagining the European ski chalet for the Far East. Her 200-room Green Leaf Niseko Village has great views of Mount Yotei, is steps from the lifts and is filled with site-specific art by the Japanese artist Soichiro Tomioka.
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Hangaroa Eco Village & Spa Built on the mostly deforested Easter Island, the 75-room hotel will have all the bells and whistles of a luxe eco-resort (electro-smog machines, microturbines, grass-topped roofs). Eighty-five percent of the staff will be local Rapa Nui Coach Bags Outlet, and many of the products used at the spa will be made on the island. Doubles from $549 per person, all-inclusive.
Soneva Kiri This secluded island resort one hour from Bangkok has a spa in the jungle that uses only Thai ingredients in its therapies. When you’re done with your four-hand massage, you can have lunch in a suspended bamboo pod, where food is delivered by waiters on zip lines. No footprint there. Doubles from $1,200.
Spas are taking an eco-trip: go to any resort with a conscience and you’ll find more alfresco treatment rooms, more locally sourced products, more carbon-neutral facilities. These four retreats are at the forefront of the green-spa movement, giving guests a chance to convene with nature sensibly while they slough off those old carbon footprints.
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No fixed date has been set, but design wonks are anxiously awaiting the opening of the Droog creative agency’s 10-room hotel in Amsterdam. Designed by the Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow, the as-yet-named Coach Bags Outlet, members-only property is built around a courtyard and resembles perforated Corian.
Mickey Hole Delaire Graff Estate.
The Ranch at Live Oak Malibu Here’s a recipe for success: find a pristine swath of land in Malibu, Calif.; make everything organic and holistic; then offer cooking classes, massages and (mandatory) hikes. The results: a wait list that looks like the Oscar nominees. One-week retreats $5,600, all-inclusive.
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