Hotels Resorts

The afternoon sun was pulsing overhead, when I stepped onto the Piper Navajo PA31, a six-seat, twin-engine propeller plane set to take off at Providenciales International Airport and land on the longest private runway in the Caribbean — at 5,700 feet — just 20 minutes later. But it wasn’t the novelty of the tiny hopper, nor the latter superlative that bubbled the adrenaline within me: I was…

Watching dawn break from a four-poster bed at Ladera, St. Lucia is surreal. In the middle distance is the Caribbean Sea glittering between Gros Piton and Petit Piton, two enormous cone-shaped, forest-covered peaks that even dominate St. Lucia’s flag. They feature on every postcard from this lush Caribbean island — and dominate every view from the enormous suites on Ladera’s Paradise…

The brand-new Bulgari Hotel Tokyo blends Japanese and Italian elegance in a way I’ve truly never seen before. It’s the only place I’ve ever been where both arigato gozaimasu and grazie mille are completely acceptable responses to someone placing a glass of Champagne in front of you. On the hotel’s 45th floor, the western terrace has lemon trees, a nod to Bulgari’s…

By the time we touched down in the Maldivian capital of Malé, my excitement for the trip ahead had already been somewhat hampered by the 20-hour flight from New York. Delirium had set in, and all I wanted was to be horizontal. Thankfully, our hotel, Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi, welcomes guests off of these lengthy flights every day, so the team had a plan. We were whisked from the…