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Last Minute New Year’s Eve

No plans yet for New Year’s? Well, you’re not the only one. But if you have a passport (or not, for some of these destinations) then it may not take a Christmas miracle to still ring in 2024 in style. That white sand beach, luxury resort, and epic New Year’s are still within reach. Welcome to where to go for New Year’s Eve. The Location: Vienna Overview: A vacation to Vienna on New Year’s Eve will take you back to…

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Things You’ll Love

Next Level Holiday Stocking Stuffers

Once the presents are unwrapped, the eggnog is drunk, and the board games are played, there’s still your holiday stockings to look forward to. The stockings are your chance to get creative and fun, and maybe get a laugh or two over a gag gift. We have the ideas that will make the stockings perhaps, just as fun to open as the gifts. We venture to say that you’ll take stocking stuffers to the next level with these treats. Snow…

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Luxury Family Travel & Lifestyle

Family Holiday Events in NYC

There is a reason over 6.5 million visitors come to New York City during the holidays. New York City is one of the best places to be in the U.S. during this time of year, as the city gets into the holiday spirit. From the windows at Bergdorfs to the tree at Rockefeller Center, there are traditions that make New York so special. These are some of the highlights for family holiday events in NYC this 2023. Christmas Spectacular Starring…

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Hotel Reviews

The Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino

If you are with your entourage this summer, you need to go. If you are with your sig other this summer, you need to go. If you are a solo traveler, you guessed it, you need to go. The Mandarin Oriental in Costa Navarino is a hotel that will inspire you to skip the Greek Isles and stay on the mainland this summer. This is the insider’s review. The Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino opened in August 2023 in an area…

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Destinations + Hotels to Inspire You

6 Best Amans in the World

You know a hotel is pretty special when it turns the most demanding people into bona fide junkies. What we mean by that is when Aman builds it, the top of the food chain will come. It doesn’t matter how far-flung either the destination is, and in fact, the more remote, the better. When Aman arrived on the scene over 25 years ago, it indisputably created its own class of luxury. So what, you’re asking, makes Aman so special? Yes,…

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New York City

Top Special Occasion Dinners in NYC

Sometimes you want to celebrate the holidays. Or a birthday. Or a promotion. And sometimes you want to have a special occasion dinner for no reason at all. All of the above call for a special occasion restaurant that you wouldn’t necessarily go to every day. You know, the kind of place for which you get dressed to the nines, and order without abandon from the menu and the wine list. This is your list for where to blow it…

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Style

The Holiday Gift Issue

You’ve not made your list, much less checked it twice. And it doesn’t matter if they’ve been naughty or nice. You have a boatload of people to buy gifts for as usual this year. So we have your inspiration, no matter who it is. Yes, even for that person who has everything. This is the ultimate holiday gift list and your go-to this season. Best Holiday Travel-Inspired Gifts The Gift: Simple Human Cleanstation You do not want to know how…

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Victoria Beckham Handbag on Model Holiday Gifts

Destinations + Hotels to Inspire You

Where to Celebrate New Year’s Eve 2024

You’re crushing it at work. The kids are top of their class and in every extracurricular activity known to man. You’re out 4 out of 7 nights a week making it all happen. Life is pretty perfect. Well, even if this total fantasy is not the current state of affairs, we know that your New Year’s Eve plans are probably up in the air. The fact is you’re busy, and there’s been no mind-space to think about where to celebrate…

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Travel Buzz

The Core Club’s New NYC Location

We all know that the private club craze has taken over New York City. But before there was Bond Street, Casa Cruz or Casa Cipriani, there was the Core Club. They were the first movers to bring in the modern age of private clubs that were less stuffy and anything but old school. But their space grew a little tired, until now, where they may just be the leader of the pack again. Overview: Core Club once again is showing…

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New York City

Cocktail Bars in NYC to Know

It used to be that heading to a bar for a nightcap was the afterthought for the evening. That was before it became an art to craft a cocktail and drinks started to compete with wine as a pairing for food. So, naturally the landscape for cocktail bars has changed in NYC where there are lounges that are worthy of the main event of the evening. These are some of the cocktail bars in NYC to know now. Shinji’s The…

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