If you’re visiting New York City for concrete canyons and neon lights, Manhattan is the place to be. But if you want the hippest shops and restaurants and the feel of a real neighborhood, get thee across the river to Brooklyn. These days, Brooklyn is where it’s at. Unfortunately, Brooklyn hotels haven’t kept pace with [...]

Experience London like a Londoner. Instead of staying in a hotel like any old tourist, stay in an “unhotel”. What is an unhotel? Basically someone else’s home that they let you stay in. Only better because you’ll have fresh, fluffy towels and pressed sheets just like a hotel. Oooh, and those lovely little soaps.

Roomorama was founded on the principle that there is more to travel than visiting a checklist of tourist attractions. As two young executives caught between professional obligations and perpetual wanderlust, Jia En Teo and Federico Folcia would rent their New York apartments to a few friendly folks with a similar desire to live like locals. [...]

Casa Colombo is a spruced up 200-year-old Moorish mansion in Colombo’s southern Bambalapitiya quarter, a luxury hotel on a budget. This space gives the senses a real treat: trendy, wild and highly styled, the design-driven interiors were fashioned by owner Lalin Jinasena, a protégé of the renowned Geoffrey Bawa. At this hotel, personal domos (butler/concierges) [...]

San Francisco is home to a recently remodeled, Japanese pop culture inspired hotel: Best Western Hotel Tomo. The lobby is home to walls of televisions and the rooms are decorated with anime murals and glow-in-the-dark desk blotters in each guest room. This hotel gives guests a unparalleled San Francisco experience. The Best Western Hotel Tomo [...]