So I’ve been MIA from the blog lately, but I think I have a pretty good excuse, as I’ve been busy putting the finishing touches on a Texas travel feature for our November issue. For the latest installment of “Where To Stay Now,” I picked up where
She’s the avatar of cool for the inn crowd’s in crowd. Thirteen years ago the native Odessan, a UT and UT Law grad, purchased a seedy motel on South Congress Avenue, in Austin, and transformed it, with the help of San Antonio’s Lake/Flato architects and designer pals from California, into
Houston’s J.P. Bryan is remaking a West Texas town into what could be the next Taos—and for some locals, that’s a mixed blessing.
Don’t think of the Hill Country Hyatt as just another chain hotel. Think of it as your salvation—especially if you have kids.
Why do reviewers from Condé Nast Traveler to the Zagat and Mobil guides swoon over Dallas’ Mansion on Turtle Creek? I wanted to find out, so I checked in.
summary: What’s the best hotel in Texas? (Hint: It’s not the Mansion on Turtle Creek).
For business travelers with reservations about big-city hotels, bed and breakfasts suddenly have staying power.
God save the queen! A Dallas hotel company has won the right to manage London’s most exclusive property.
Can Texans be won over to the antique tradition of tea and little sandwiches in the afternoon? Dallas’ and Houston’s new gilded hotels are counting on it.
We’ve found them: nine of Mexico’s best colonial inns and lodges. All you have to do is make reservations.
Why subject yourself to the dreariness of impersonal, prefab hotels when these country hostelries are just down the road?
He knows the secrets behind closed doors.
You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.
