Slightly larger than Esperanza, the resort facilities and hotel complez of Las Ventanas’ total of 71 rooms featuring an Aegean meets Sea of Cortez feel with mostly-white living and sleeping areas with intricate mosaic stone detailing, rafter ceiling and wood-burning fireplaces facing the occasional outdoor plunge pool or rooftop Jacuzzi. The hotel has its own 3-yacht fleet for private excursions a...
Along a secluded drive away from Cabo and towards Palmilla, double barn doors interrupt an otherwise modern white stucco façade at the main doorway of Casianos. A tile entryway with seated receptionist guards a triangular step-up doorway that leads to the main dining room. Inside, bold striped walls and regional art offer a pop flavor to the rustic architecture of iron chandeliers, beam ceiling an...
Celebrity chaos in the crown on New York's Standard Hotel, the space formerly known as Boom Boom Room then QT and now Boom Boom Room again, is a penthouse-level lounge that offers 3am debauchery privy to Madonna and Mary-Kate sightings. Not advertised on the hotel website and rarely mentioned to the hotel's actual guests. The truth hurts, but in all honesty, the lounge is a VIP...
Some credit the trend to Mandalay Bay’s beach wave pool and Moorea Beach Club that brought European-style sunbathing to a mass-audience. Others insist that it was the weekly Hard Rock pool party called Rehab, that’s a margarita-induced pool party of muscle dudes and girlfriends that don’t mind the occasional waterborne chicken-fight.<br /> <br />But adult-only pools, or ultra-...
