2010 May travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The Antik Boutique hotel is situated in Side, Antalya. 110 km away from the Antalya Airport, 20 km away from Alanya. The hotel offered some good leisure activities.
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The EcoCamp is an ecological retreat for superb hiking adventures in the heart of the Torres del Paine national park in Chile. Choose from various trekking packages of all lengths and levels, with excellent bilingual guides, and meals, drinks and transfers included. The friendly young staff take great care to make both hiking expeditions and your stay at the camp well-organized and welcoming. EcoCamp shared eco-bathrooms with loos and hot showers and compost loos in the suite domes feel like the real thing.
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Hi-Hotel is a hotel mixed with colours from pink glass at reception, purple and green resin floors and, up by the pool to orange leather cushions on designer white sun loungers. Light projections dance on a wall in the super-cool bar, while huge ferns and climbers bring greenery to the garden. The 38 rooms are equally wild; the more you pay, the wilder they get. Some have showers behind walls of bamboo, others have movie screens between bath and bed. At weekends the best DJs in France spin electronic tunes to the coolest of crowds – so don’t forget your dancing shoes.
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La Bandita is a Tuscan farmhouse, with light white spaces and modernist infinity pool overlooking a Val d’Orcia nature reserve. This is a chic urban place, full of fresh air and clean space, contemporary furniture, and bold slabs of pure colour. No frills, no clutter, no rough edges and not a hint of wrought iron. The owner is a New Yorker escapee John Voigtmann, who has worked with Christina Aguilera.
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The Ajia Hotel is situated on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, a slick conversion of a 19th century yali – the palatial summer mansions of the Ottoman elite. Behind an original façade, the interior is a geometry of dark wood and creamy marble, glass and steel, light and shade. There is a vast lobby, almost bare but for arum lilies, white orchids, off-white chairs and sunlight and a romantic restaurant right on the waterfront. A private boat waits to ferry you across the blue water. There are 16 bedrooms, ranging from a “park view” room to the Pasha Suite. Each one is different, though all are described as deluxe and all feature air con, marbled bathrooms, LCD multi-channel TVs, large “ergonometric” beds and goose-feather pillows.
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Casa do Dean is a Brazalian rainforest chunky beach house just a stroll from the sea. The forested valley views are far-reaching, the design is exciting – great swathes of glass open to a large wooden veranda on stilts – and the comfort is supreme. The interior is a blend of white polished concrete floors, lofty Brazilian hardwood ceilings, 1960s movie posters and art deco lamps from Argentina and a decor is full of artistry and light.
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Lunuganga is a breathtakingly beautiful place. Its gardens are amid the wider wilderness of Sri Lanka and Geoffrey Bawa renowned architect and designer of Sri Lanka’s Houses of Parliament, spent 40 years transforming this abandoned rubber estate on the island’s west coast into a tropical idyll, with elegant Italianate gardens, courtyards, pools, walkways, pavilions – and inspirational views over the lake and jungle. This is no ordinary hotel. Discerning travellers have the chance to stay in one of 4 self-contained antique-filled rooms and suites.
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This hotel has extremely 60s-style design with friendly service in the heart of Mala Strana. Hotel Sax is situated just off the picture-postcard Nerudova Street. Sax is in a plum location between Prague Castle and Charles Bridge, in the centre of the capital’s historic Lesser District or Mala Strana. The atrium of the hotel is converted courtyard which floods the four storeys beneath with natural light and is dominated by a giant pop-art painting of a watermelon.
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Pacuare Lodge is a peaceful jungle destination, hidden in the depths of the rainforest and reachable only by raft. There is no time to panic because your guide is commanding you to “Paddle forward!”Exotic birds dart all around you. Pacuare Lodge sits on a bend in the river amid gorgeous gardens filled with tropical flowers. Each of its beautifully designed cabins has luxurious bathrooms, beds draped with mosquito nets, and is lit only by candles at night.
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The Tierra Atacama Hotel is sited between the bright blue sky of Chile and its terracotta mountains, among lush green vegetation and rocky path and burbling river, which make you feel there is nowhere in the world you’d rather be. The hotel is set in 5 hectares of land just outside the oasis town of San Pedro de Atacama, beautifully designed in muted tones of adobe and local materials to blend with its surroundings perfectly.
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