Tokyo’s proposed $125 million National Center for Media Arts is currently in fast-track status to be built as Japan’s preeminent showcase for manga, anime, video games and “technology art”. Envisioned as a way for Japan to show-off this one-of-a-kind national art form, the Museum has unexpectedly received a cash-boost from the recently-passed supplementary budget by [...]
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OPENING IN SWEDEN: Floating Sauna
Located north of Gothenberg — the Salt and Sill (salt and herring) is the first floating hotel in Sweden, a nation known for it islands, archipelago and tiny bays. Opened in October, the 46-room, ultra-green abode is now entering upgrade mode with the debut today — the hotel confirmed to us — of its new [...]
OPENING IN RAVELLO: Gore Vidal's La Rondinaia
Three years after it sold for a whopping $17.87 million, Gore Vidal’s legendary clifftop home La Rondinaia (the swallow’s nest) is finally opening this summer as the Amalfi Coast’s most exclusive hideaway. Originally built in the 1920s — and a favorite of Britain’s literary Bloomsbury Group — rebel-author (and original Gay bad-ass) Vidal bought the [...]
TREND ALERT: Bogota
As Transracial friends may remember, we were in Colombia for two weeks in March — traveling around the Andea nation from the mountains to the Caribbean Sea with amigo RC. The trip was way fun — and clearly we were very on-trend. Or make that trend-making. Since our return, there’s been a flurry of Bogota [...]
DAILY TRAVEL GOODNESS: Half-Off at All Banyan Tree Resorts
Banyan Tree Resorts — an Asian luxury leader — is showing the love this summer with a new promotion that is kinda too good to be true. But it ain’t! Book between now and June 15, and they’ll give you 50 percent off stays at all of their resorts all over the world (including their [...]
ACT FAST: Emirates Airline One-Day Sale
Folks with the long-distance travel bug should act fast. Tomorrow (June 4th), Emirates Airlines is having a ONE-DAY sale. Book tomorrow and receive $100 off any round-trip fare from any Emirates U.S. gateway to any of their world-wide destinations. The discount is not deep — but in these dire times, $100 is better than nada!
DAILY TRAVEL GOODNESS: Olveston House on Montserrat
Most folks know little about the little Caribbean island of Montserrat — except that it was almost blown to bits by a volcanic eruption a few years back. But no matter. Today, the volcano may still be active, but so is the island’s burgeoning tourism scene — including black-sand beaches (above). Montserrat’s latest edition is [...]
DAILY TRAVEL GOODNESS: InterContinental Fiji Debuts at a Discount
If we happened to be hanging anywhere near the South Pacific this week, we’d check in to check out the new InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa (above). The 216-room resort — which opened yesterday — is the sole destination resort on Natadola Beach (voted by Forbes as one of “the 25 best beaches in [...]
TREND ALERT: Fashion Hotel Redux
Considering the economy and the middling success of exisiting examples, we are in the midst of a surprising second wave of haute, fashion-inspired hotels. Indeed, from Europe to the Persian Gulf, fashion-branded properties are popping up with renewed vigor. The most ballyhooed are the pair of Missoni Hotels, including the first opening this season in [...]
DAILY TRAVEL GOODNESS: Community Service for Free Nights in the Maldives
This sounds a little too good to be true, but we kinda think it is. For folks with a spare — oh — month on their hands, the ultra-luxe Soneva Gili (above) and sister Soneva Fushi resorts in the Maldives are offering a crazy-cool package. Perfect for a burned-out banker or rail-thin celeb suffering from [...]