Luxury Hotels With Wild Backstories
Some luxury hotels wow you with outrageous amenities. These ones impress you with unhinged backstories.
Caroline Teel
Caroline has traveled to all seven continents, jumped out of planes, and bungeed off bridges in the pursuit of a good story. She loves exploring off-the-beaten path destinations, anything outdoorsy, and all things adventure. Her stories have also appeared online at USA Today, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Yahoo, Boston.com, TripAdvisor, Buzzfeed, Jetsetter, SmarterTravel, Oyster, Airfarewatchdog, and others.
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We’ve curated the fifteen best swim-up suites for every type of traveler, outlining exactly which room category to book to guarantee true swim-up access, what kind of pool you’ll be stepping into, and how much privacy you can expect—because a swim-up suite is all fun and games until someone’s floating past your door while you’re mid-outfit change.
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Samsonite’s Proxis Carry-On Spinner lives up to the lightweight tag, weighing in at just 4.6 pounds.
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The Most Outrageous Hotel Amenities
Luxury hotels love to promise “unforgettable amenities,” which usually means one-sized-fits all slippers that fit no one and perhaps a chocolate on your pillow. But then there are the properties that take things far beyond the polite boundaries of reason.…
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