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Just a short stroll from the famous Santa Monica Pier as well as downtown Santa Monica and the popular 3rd Street Promenade, The Oceana is the perfect destination for business or a romantic and relaxing luxury vacation. At Santa Monica hotel, you can hide away and enjoy spectacular ocean views while staying completely connected. Inspired by the azure calm and bright sun native to the French Riviera, Oceana’s colorful surroundings inspire and provide a welcome haven from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles.

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Nestled among the Monterey Pines, Park Hyatt Carmel - the Highlands Inn a 4-star luxury property, offers stunning ocean views, award-wining dining, and unparalled Park Hyatt service. Overlooking the Big Sur coast, this is a picturesque retreat and longtime favorite among honeymooners, celebrities, and nature enthusiasts alike. Since 1917, the resort has been the premier destination for travelers to the spectacular Central Coast. Hyatt Carmel Highlands is recognized among the world’s finest hotels as part of Condé Nast Traveler’s 2010 Gold List and Travel + Leisure’s 2009 “T+L 500″ World’s Best Hotels.

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Secluded on California‘s Palos Verdes Peninsula, near the beach, Terranea Resort is a luxury Rancho Palos Verdes hotel in Beach Cities. It is a world-class resort features breathtaking views of the coast. This luxurious resort offers exceptional accommodations, and first-class amenities, all in an unrivaled location. Internationally respected experts in hospitality, community design, and conservation have come together to make Terranea Resort Southern California’s most celebrated and special resort environment.

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A mild sub–tropical climate that brings alternate bursts of burning sun, sharp gusts of wind and sudden rain showers. This is the Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui by the locals. Located on this mythical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Posada de Mike Rapu is considered as one of the best hotels in Latin America according to the Travel + Leisure magazine. Belongs to Chile, the island is one of the most isolated islands in the world.

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Miraflores Park Hotel is a city center luxury hotel in Lima located close to many of Lima’s definitive cultural and historic attractions including Parque Kennedy, Huaca Pucllana Museo de la Nacion and Parque de la Reserva. Situated in Miraflores district, only 100 metres from Beach Circuit Avenue, the hotel offers an attentive service and impressive views of the ocean. With only 82 guestrooms, Miraflores Park Hotel combines the service of a boutique hotel with the amenities of a much larger property.

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Set in a hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center is a $1.3 billion center campus for cultural institutions overlooking the beautiful Los Angeles landscape and the Pacific Ocean. Created by the oil magnate J Paul Getty it started as the millionaire’s private collection. Opened to public in 1997, today the J. Paul Getty Museum attracts about 1.3 million visitors annually make it one of the most visited museums in the United States.

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The Waikiki Edition Hotel, which opened in October 2010 and marks the debut of the Edition brand, is mercifully free of the ironic gestures and tongue-in-cheek moves. This highly stylized hotel function as a “home away from home” for leisure and business travelers. In addition, it will also cater to the modern day business traveler by offering functional, technologically sophisticated working environments with the comfort and ease of actually conducting business in an “office away from the office”. The Waikiki EDITION is set in its own private oasis within walking distance to Waikiki’s celebrated surfer’s beach, marina and world-class shopping district.

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Le TK
Le TK Restaurant is located in the Tsara Komba Lodge, Madagascar. Perched on a hill overlooking the Indian Ocean, it offers splendid panoramic view of the bay and Madagascar’s Grande Terre Island. At lunchtime you often see fishermen paddling their dugouts past the beach. The cuisine served in the restaurant blends Eastern and Western spices and flavours and fish and fresh local produce take pride of place. All the products are exclusively bio.

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Verana Hotel is an intimate boutique hotel on Mexico‘s Pacific coast, tucked in a remote hillside jungle just thirty miles south of Puerto Vallarta and accessible only by boat. Verana boasts indulgently private accommodations, a blend of old-world and modern designs and a philosophy of simple luxuries—all set against a backdrop of stunning water and mountain views. The whole experience begin when you disembark onto the hotel’s small, private pier. A few stone steps lead to the full-service jungle spa, which offers aqua-therapy, scrubs, massages and the like, many of which incorporate locally grown plants.

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This house is situated 15 km. south of downtown Puerto Vallarta in Mexico,offering a stunning view, once used as scenes for the movies “Night of the Iguana”, ”The Predator” among others.

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