This 332-room property just outside San Jose del Cabo somehow remains tasteful despite its large scale. The centerpiece is the vast courtyard with...

The latest offering from the design-savvy Grupo Habita is set inside a nineteenth-century water-purification plant separated from Puebla's center (a...

A handful of style-conscious resorts have popped up in Cancún since the rebuilding fervor following Hurricane Wilma in late 2005. But the...

Water figures big in the design here, and we're not talking just about the curling Caribbean Sea that laps at the resort's edges. All 128 suites are...

Sprawled across 36 acres of tropical forest, this hyper-luxe property with ecolodge sensibilities is a showcase for nature and for the works of 23...

After populating Napa Valley with a series of romantic retreats, Auberge Resorts lets loose with an eco-luxe escape for the stylish, hybrid-driving,...

A speakeasy and brothel for naughty weekending movie-industry types in the 1930s, the 56-room Colony Palms has a new incarnation as a cool...

If Hearst could do it all over again, this is how he might render his sprawling California castle. Tucked in the Los Peñasquitos Canyon...

While the leather-bound lobby and erotic specialty suites (with group showers and stripper poles, for example) draw most of the notice, the Ivy's...

Snuck in among the posh apartment buildings on the north end of Santa Monica's beachfront boulevard, the revamped Oceana looks and feels more like a...

What happens when a twee European-inflected ski town meets a high-profile hotel? Enter the 36-room Arrabelle at Vail Square, in the revamped...

Melding the brand's urbanity with the town's identity as a top yacht market and cruise port, the 187-room St. Regis resembles a glossy Art Deco ocean...

If this 47-room newcomer on the edge of SoFi (south of Fifth Street) is self-conscious about its conspicuous lack of glitz and flash, it doesn't...

After a yearlong renovation, this Art Deco icon has been reborn as a whimsical, warm 45-suite hideaway. Oversized lamps, animal-print rugs, and...

More is more at Chicago's new music industry hot spot (formerly the House of Blues hotel), extroverted both stylistically and socially. A neighbor to...

Restraint trumps gilt at this next-generation Trump project guided by Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump. Spacious rooms—the smallest is 600...

A $150 million makeover of the Charles Street Jail produced this swank 298-room hotel. The main 1851 building retains many of the architectural...

The Palazzo doesn't do anything dramatically different from its competitors—it just does it better. Like its sister property The Venetian and...

Undeterred by the nearby flophouse and Salvation Army shelter, rock band managers, film directors, and other entertainment industry folk have been...

The only public space at this quietly hip newcomer is the sleek, narrow lobby, whose lounge is far too small for entourages, let alone paparazzi....

The Plaza emerges from its $400 million renovation with architectural grandeur, decor long on marble and crystal, plenty of references to Eloise, and...

Unfinished and abandoned for nearly 80 years, the city's 1927 Masonic temple is now the best thing to happen to Providence's lackluster hotel scene,...

This status-conscious city has a new jewel in its crown with the opening of the 218-room Ritz-Carlton in the Uptown neighborhood. While the...

When the Sky Lodge opened in December on a choice lot on the corner of Main Street and Heber Avenue, it laid claim to being the most luxurious digs...