New hotels: Rockies retreats and eastern jewels
Posted by Caroline on September 7th, 2010This summer, we jumped in our pink Cadillac and hit the road. As we indicated a few months back, our Stateside voyage across to the last frontier was a hotel hunt of epic proportions and turned in some treasure…
We couldn’t believe our luck when we stumbled upon Dunton Hot Springs (left), a one-time ghost town, sat snug in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. The old mining village has been converted into cosy boutique cabins, and you can still have a drink in the original Saloon, where former patrons have included Butch and Sundance.
Up the rocky road in the Wyoming wilderness, we found Amangani, a ravishing redwood resort at the foot of the Teton range in Jackson Hole. There’s a ski centre nearby and a huge outdoor pool, ready to deliver some mountain magic.
In Boston, the Morgans Hotel Group behind the Mondrian in Miami and Royalton in New York, brought us Ames Hotel, historically housed in a 19th-century Romanesque building at the edge of the city’s Financial District.
We traded in our wheels for a carpet of the flying variety and headed east to Istanbul. Here, The House Hotel Nisantasi, a decadent design den close to Sisli’s shops, and The House Hotel Galatasaray, an opulent Ottoman mansion in old-town Cukurcuma, caught our attention. And in Morocco, Marrakech’s grande dame of luxury, La Mamounia (right), lured us in to its pleasure palace.
We’re going coastal next month, with new finds in the Caribbean, Algarve and Jersey Shore…
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