Klara Glowczewska

We searched, we sifted, we annointed. And the winners are... these 47 new hotels and lodges. Beachy or wild, city or country, we're betting they'll stand the test of time.

These recently opened safari lodges in legendary places set a high bar.

Because sometimes, only an expanse of blue will do.

How much do I love a steaming plate of pierogi with wild blueberries and cream? Enough to start planning a trip to get some.

The king of beasts is endangered across Africa. Here’s why, why it matters, and what can be done.

It is built of stone, but France's great cathedral has never stood still. Notre Dame's current reincarnation is the latest chapter of a fascinating 860-year-old story.

What American city serves up both town and country pleasures in the satisfying way Charleston now does? None that we can think of. Welcome to the great American playground—for both city slickers and country squires.

While you were sleeping, people just like you have actually begun to travel into space. We were invited behind Virgin Galactic’s velvet rope to meet them, and here is our advice: Get ready, and get in line.

Photos above: Grandeur’s Compass Rose restaurant, pool, bedroom of a Concierge category suite, and Senior Executive Chef Michael Meyepa.The attraction of cruising for me has long been the way a ship can take you multiple places without the need to repeatedly pack and unpack—the joy, in effect, of luggageless travel. So I was skeptical when I boarded the Seven Seas Grandeur in Miami last January. This sailing, on Regent Seven Seas’ sixth (and newest) vessel, wouldn’t be taking me anywhere at all.…

The winners of TC’s Hotel Awards in the April 2024 issue are organized into six categories: wilderness, city, country, beachside, minimalist, and high-design. For the full list, see TC Hotel Awards 2024: The Best-Looking New Hotels on the Planet.Sea Cabins at Manshausen, NorwayEven by Norwegian standards, 14-acre Manshausen Island is out there, a place for close encounters with the extreme north.It’s also home to one of Norway’s architectural wonders: The Sea Cabins at Manshausen. The glass-wa…

The winners of TC’s Hotel Awards in the April 2024 issue are organized into six categories: wilderness, city, country, beachside, minimalist, and high-design. For the full list, see TC Hotel Awards 2024: The Best-Looking New Hotels on the Planet.Waterside By Royal Malewane, South AfricaEntering one of Royal Portfolio’s hotels or lodges, you may well wonder whatever happened to classic safari khaki. Each interior is an exuberant collage of colors, textures, and contemporary African art handpicked…

The winners of TC’s Hotel Awards in the April 2024 issue are organized into six categories: wilderness, city, country, beachside, minimalist, and high-design. For the full list, see TC Hotel Awards 2024: The Best-Looking New Hotels on the Planet. Le Grand Mazarin, ParisMartin Brudnizki is the man behind this boutique hotel, which explains why Le Grand Mazarin has been all over your Instagram feed lately. The designer transformed a trio of 14th-century buildings into a 61-room property, taking in…

C Hotel Awards we looked at the pool of contenders—hotels opened or substantially refurbished no earlier than last year—through design-colored glasses: What are the world’s most aesthetically arresting new places? Few travel moments, after all, measure up to arriving at your hotel and falling in love at first sight—the shapes! the colors! the views! the vibe! (Yes, we’re emoting, and why not? Travel at its best does that to you.) There are 53 winners this year, and our methodology appears at the…

The winners of TC’s Hotel Awards in the April 2024 issue are organized into six categories: wilderness, city, country, beachside, minimalist, and high-design. For the full list, see TC Hotel Awards 2024: The Best-Looking New Hotels on the Planet. Villa Mabrouka, TangierIn 1990, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé purchased a 1940s modernist villa on a cliff overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar in Tangier, and enlisted Jacques Grange to create an airy, light-filled retreat—an antidote of sorts to…

The winners of TC’s Hotel Awards in the April 2024 issue are organized into six categories: wilderness, city, country, beachside, minimalist, and high-design. For the full list, see TC Hotel Awards 2024: The Best-Looking New Hotels on the Planet. Beyond Punakha River Lodge, Bhutan If the African safari is a state of mind—tented accommodations and lots of outdoor activities–it has come to the tiny Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan with the opening of this property from the acclaimed Africa-based operato…

The winners of TC’s Hotel Awards in the April 2024 issue are organized into six categories: wilderness, city, country, beachside, minimalist, and high-design. For the full list, see TC Hotel Awards 2024: The Best-Looking New Hotels on the Planet. OneOnly Aesthesis, GreeceThere are only twelve rooms attached to the main building of this sprawling new addition to the Athenian Riviera, only 30 minutes from downtown Athens. The rest of the accommodations at Aesthesis are free-standing suites, resid…

I was first seduced by the dramatic landscapes of Western Australia (often called “the real Australia” by Aussies) as I watched Baz Lurhmann’s epic 2008 Antipodean western, Australia, which was largely shot there. A tale of love, war, and the plight of Australia’s Stolen Generations (Indigenous and mixed-race children who were forcibly removed from their families by the government, supposedly for their own good), it stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, and a mesmerizing Brandon Walters as an Abori…

When I met Harry in Malawi in the summer of 2016, he was moving elephants. Specifically, he was a lowly member (well, more or less) of a crew sedating and transporting 500 of the giant beasts from a national park with problems to one with room for them to thrive. It was an extraordinary feat in the annals of wildlife conservation, executed under the aegis of the conservation NGO African Parks, whose president Harry became soon afterward. “Look at them,” he told me one evening over beers, referri…

My first sighting of Greenland was from the window of a charter plane flying last June from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Kangerlussuaq, 30 miles inside the Arctic Circle. As we neared Greenland’s eastern coast, the navy blue of the North Atlantic gave way to a white-on-blue, ice-strewn chaos. A dark band of jagged coastal mountains followed, and then a monolithic whiteness: We were over the Greenlandic ice sheet, with its massive glaciers, an uninhabitable remnant of Earth’s last ice age 100,000 years…

I was almost on my way to the airport for my flight to Morocco on the morning of September 10 when I got word of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that had hit the area around Marrakech and the High Atlas Mountains late the night before. It was exactly where I was headed for the annual PURE travel conference, which every fall brings together in Marrakech members of the global travel industry for four days of meetings and hobnobbing. To go or not to go? A similar question arose last month about Maui.…