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Located in the heart of LA, just steps from the Beverly Center, the SLS Hotel is a landmark of hospitality experience. Rich on pleasure and comfort, the hotel is designed for your comfort and convenience. The hotel amenities include a full-service spa, fitness and business center, non-smoking facilities, five restaurants, a rooftop deck, 24-hour valet parking and laundry, pressing and dry cleaning.
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The BathHouse is one of the most acclaimed places in the entire spa industry. Located on second floor of the hotel at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the minimalism designed spa center offers ultimate treatments in the modern spa experience. There are steam rooms, full equipment gym, saunas and twelve treatment rooms where you can enjoy massages, wraps and facials. Photos by: MGM MIRAGE
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Canada‘s Great Bear Rainforest sweeps along British Columbia’s Inside Passage and is more than twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. In the middle of this broken wilderness, more than 150 miles (240 km) from the nearest paved road, is the King Pacific Lodge, a floating fishing lodge based on the serene waters of Princess Royal Island’s Barnard Harbor, home to black wolves, grizzlies, black bears, and a maximum of thirty pampered guests. Photo by: andrew mcgarry
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The Venetian Pool is an incredible piece of living history (hence its place on the U.S. National Registry of Historic Places) and a beautiful escape in the heart of Miami. Step through the original wrought-iron gates and into another era – a time of whimsical architecture and romantic visions of how cities should be. Photo by: Derek Jackson
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A regular on ”world’s best hotel” lists, Robert Redford’s rustic Sundance resort is unique. It sits in 6,000 acres (2,425 ha) of wilderness on the slopes of the 12,000 foot (3,660-m) Mount Timpanogos. Rivers burble and birds sing in summer, in winter, mugs of hot chocolate steam beside a crackling fire waiting for skiers to return. The cozy rooms feature American quilts and Native American will hangings, and the food is superb, whether in The Foundry, praised by Zagat’s for its luxury brunch, or the five-star restaurant. Photo by: Mike In Park City
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It is not only tourists who rave about Restaurant Nepenthe and its superlative views. Locals will tell you that on no account should you miss this spot, credited with some of the best panoramas in Big Sur, perhaps on the whole west coast of America. Take in the breathtaking sea and mountain vistas form window seats and wide outside terraces adorned with bright Moroccan-style cushions. Photo by: Lone Cypress
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Tucked away in the San Juan Mountains, this romantic old mining town turned resort offers a refreshingly new tourist experience. Although the town where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are rumored to have hidden after robbing a bank in Telluride in 1889 may appear sleepy, nothing could be further from the truth. There is abundance of activities to satisfy even the most hyper vacationer.
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