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Back on our hotel merch game…like always.
Our friends at Raffles just launched The Little Shop…their first-ever online store. Really good goods made just for Raffles, with a few things dreamed up alongside names like Frette, Globe-Trotter, and Smythson. (More of our friends…)
Here’s the part we love most: Raffles actually ran a little fashion boutique out of their Singapore hotel way back in 1947. The designer there once dressed Elizabeth Taylor. So this isn’t some hotel inventing a merch line or logo slapping…it harkens back to real brand history.
And just in time for us to show up in Singapore! Heading to the airport soon…
03 Nov 2026
Well…this is something else.
The world’s largest sailing yacht is here. @orientexpresssailingyachts
The Orient Express Corinthian is the brand’s first luxury sailing yacht, with just 54 suites onboard.
People often ask, why would I pay that sticker price to be on a ship with strangers? That debate gets squashed pretty quickly when you understand the economics and logistics of chartering a yacht.
But this is a masterpiece. Enough to never consider your own.
From the interiors designed by @maximedangeac (who personally toured us around) to the smallest details onboard. Maxime is a name you’re going to hear a lot more of.
This is a brand that started with trains. And the thought that went into bringing that heritage onto the water, while creating something entirely new, cannot be underestimated.
It is brilliant. And we cannot wait to get back onboard.
In a league of its own. 🤝
02 Nov 2026
Can’t say we’ve seen a pool like this… @capetownedition
The EDITION just opened in Cape Town, marking the brand’s African debut. Set along the waterfront, the hotel has 142 guest rooms and one very interesting swimming pool.
Lake Como, now Cape Town. Not to oversimplify things, but hotel brands of this size are as much in the real estate business as they are in hospitality. And EDITION seems to be making some pretty serious waterfront real estate plays.
Of course, what you do with great real estate matters. A lot.
We’re hopeful EDITION makes the most of this one. The pool is a good start.
28 Oct 2026
The worlds largest sailing yacht is here @orientexpresssailingyachts
26 Oct 2026
Some hotel rooms should have a velvet rope outside.
The Orient Express Suite at Venice’s newest hotel, @orientexpress.venezia 🤝
25 Oct 2026
A 4-star hotel with no TVs and no kids under 18…is one of the best hotels in America?
Part 5 of the best hotels in America: @postranchinn 📍
Big Sur, California, is home to one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the country. And perched high above the Pacific sits a small, rather unusual 4-star hotel that consistently finds itself among the best hotels in America.
We’ve never been. In fact, we don’t know anyone who has. But there’s something about a place that doesn’t try to be ‘everything’.
Maybe that’s part of the appeal. A little mystery goes a long way. And Post Ranch Inn has certainly kept us asking…is it one of the best?
Photos taken by @kodiakgreenwood
22 Oct 2026
For when we finally find the money, secure a liquor license, and stumble upon the perfect inn on the water.
Here are 13 things we’d put in our hotel. Unreasonable by modern standards, perhaps. But we’d argue that’s part of the problem.
Comment 13 for the full read.
21 Oct 2026
This might be the most Italian way to travel through Italy. And it’s not a Ferrari.
Welcome aboard La Dolce Vita Orient Express @ladolcevitaorientexpress
An important distinction: This is not the original Orient Express. These aren’t the original train cars, nor is this meant to recreate the legendary route that began in 1883.
Instead, a sleeper train built around Italy, inspired by the glamour of the 1960s and ‘70s. And a fascinating way to see the country.
We had one of the best pastas we’ve ever eaten onboard. And despite popular belief, we slept like babies while rolling down the tracks.
La Dolce Vita is a lavish, wonderfully Italian reminder that sometimes the journey really is the point. After a day onboard, we get it.
And among all the exciting things Orient Express is bringing back to life, a revival of its legendary original route should be expected in the future.
🍸📸: @food_feels
20 Oct 2026
Where you might find us reading…
One of the most famous hotels in the world just turned its library into a $10,000-a-night suite. Designed by @aimecreativestudios
Welcome to @thegleneagleshotel.
Located in Auchterarder, Scotland, about an hour from Edinburgh, Gleneagles opened in 1924 and has spent the last century becoming one of the great country house hotels in the world.
Set across 850 acres of Scottish countryside, the hotel has 233 rooms and suites, three championship golf courses, and no shortage of places to enjoy a proper Scotch.
The hotel’s original tower, once home to its library, has been transformed into a two-story, one-bedroom suite. There’s a private dining room, a marble bathroom, a hidden bar, and the hotel’s only private rooftop terrace overlooking the countryside.
The price? Starting at £7,750 a night. Roughly $10,000.
A rather expensive way to return a library book. But we certainly appreciate the ambition.
20 Oct 2026
Gifting your wife a palace. Tough act to follow.
The hotel shaped like the letter E. @hoteldupalais
Napoleon III loved his wife, Empress Eugénie, so much that he had a palace built for her in 1854. And, as if a palace on the French Atlantic coast wasn’t enough, it was designed in the shape of an E. Subtle!
What was once an imperial summer residence in Biarritz is now one of France’s most historic luxury hotels, part of Hyatt’s Unbound Collection.
Nearly 170 years later, you can still stay in the palace built for an empress. Not a bad love letter.
(And yes, “pah-lay” is how you pronounce Palais. Forgive us.)
19 Oct 2026
An airport carpet with a cult following. Only in Portland.
Columbia (@columbia1938), the Portland-based sportswear brand, just dropped a $100 fleece inspired by the famous carpet at Portland International Airport (PDX). And its early-access release sold out in under five minutes.
For years, PDX’s carpet has been something locals and travelers are proud of. There’s a certain nostalgia to the whole thing. A reminder of a time when airports had a little more personality and didn’t all look...sterile.
The early-access release on October 14 sold out almost immediately, followed by the public launch on October 15.
Bravo Columbia.
18 Oct 2026
A man with a dream of owning a ranch. More than 500 properties later, he found the one. @theranchatrockcreek
At ten years old, Jim Manley told his father he wanted a horse and, someday, a ranch of his own.
In 2007, that childhood dream became a reality.
Just four years after opening, The Ranch at Rock Creek became the first ranch in the world to earn a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating. No small feat, even considering our relationship with lists and awards.
But a five-star, all-inclusive ranch offering more than 40 activities? We can see the case for it. And based on a conversation with Jim himself, there’s quite a bit more to this place than the accolades suggest.
16 Oct 2026
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