Online - April 15, 2006

Travel: Devil in the Details III

Excellent Hotel Perks

Funny, but we just can’t get enough of those charming little hotel perks and amenities.

Elephant Boot Camp
Dreaming of running away and joining the circus? You’ll get basic elephant training followed by a daylong trek at the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Thailand. Extra feel-good bonus: All of the animals were rescued from the mean city streets.

Crack Relief
Fingers already overworked? Sounds like someone needs a BlackBerry Balm hand massage, a treatment offered at various Hyatt hotels. (Yes, this is what addiction has reduced you to.)

Say Cheese
The Hotel Basico in Playa del Carmen has Polaroid cameras chained to the beds. Extra proud of yourself, hotshot? You can leave your story and photographic evidence in the guest book.

Grand Entrance
That’s a mighty pretty cable car that takes you up, up, up the Italian Alps to the Vigilius Mountain Resort. Sorry, Mr. Vertigo, but it’s the only way to get there.

See-food for Dinner
At the so-luxe-it’s-sick Burj Al Arab in the United Arab Emirates, you’ll eat underwater in a submarine-like dining room. Puts any lobster tank to shame.

Want more? Check out Devil in the Details II.

  Adventure Travel, Luxury Travel, Quarter-Life Crisis