With a brand new year ahead of us, we bring you our brand new section: Room with a View straight from the pages of Condé Nast Traveler Room with a View by Assouline Publications, a luxury hardcover worhty of any jetsetter's coffee table. This glam selection of 160 breathtaking images of hotel rooms with stunning views comes straight from the esteemed travel publication's pages,the column of the same title. Some of the highlights include the bathtub vista from the Royal Park’s Urban Spa room in the 971-foot-high Yokohama Landmark Tower, or Room 609 at Badrutt’s Palace Hotel, the perfect box seat for the Cartier Polo World Cup on Snow, played on the frozen Lake of St. Moritz below.
Forget for a moment a hotel or resort's more predictable aspects – pools, spas, food service and so on. The most memorable, moving, surprising, and,yes, sexy thing when we are first shown to our room – that 'aah' moment at the start of a trip is, if we're lucky (or have done our homework) the stunning view," writes the author and Condé Nast Traveler editor Klara Glowczewska in the foreword.
"It's that perfect mariage of the grand (the vista) and the intimate (our private perch and pespective on it). The Great Pyramid of Giza will never look as miraculous as when observed full on from a room at the Mena House Oberoi. Bora Bora's waters will never appear as improbably embraceably turqoise – the Platonic form of blue – as when framed by a balustrade of a bungalow at the Hotel Kia Ora. Gustave Eiffel's iron tower will never soar as weightlessly and hear at hand over the rooftops of Paris as it does from the vantage point of a suite at Hotel Plaza Athenee."
And as, at RoomSuggestion, we are in pursuit of room perfection, we have taken it upon ourselves to bring you some fabulous rooms with stunning views, courtesy of Condé Nast Traveler. There is nowhere else to start the journey The Sun Suite at Jade Mountain, St. Lucia.
With the famous Pitons, two of the most photographed mountains on earth and UNESCO World Heritage Site right outside your window and the cerulean waters of the Caribean kissing the shores of not one but two beaches 190 feet underneath your window, this view is a joy to behold.
Image: Condé Nast Traveler Room with a View
Nothing compares to the moment when a hotel room's drapes are drawn back to reveal the world outside—a world that seems to belong to you alone. This compendium from Condé Nast Traveler gathers 140 of the most breathtaking hotel room views of all time. Accompanied by a thoughtful introduction from André Aciman and the magazine's concise commentary, these stunning photographs are sure to stoke the imaginations of even the most seasoned travelers. - See more at: http://www.assouline.com/9782759404476.html#sthash.dEV9TNSk.dpuf
Nothing compares to the moment when a hotel room's drapes are drawn back to reveal the world outside—a world that seems to belong to you alone. This compendium from Condé Nast Traveler gathers 140 of the most breathtaking hotel room views of all time. Accompanied by a thoughtful introduction from André Aciman and the magazine's concise commentary, these stunning photographs are sure to stoke the imaginations of even the most seasoned travelers. - See more at: http://www.assouline.com/9782759404476.html#sthash.dEV9TNSk.dpuf
Nothing compares to the moment when a hotel room's drapes are drawn back to reveal the world outside—a world that seems to belong to you alone. This compendium from Condé Nast Traveler gathers 140 of the most breathtaking hotel room views of all time. Accompanied by a thoughtful introduction from André Aciman and the magazine's concise commentary, these stunning photographs are sure to stoke the imaginations of even the most seasoned travelers. - See more at: http://www.assouline.com/9782759404476.html#sthash.dEV9TNSk.dpuf
