Tag: hotels

With its modern facade, chic interior design, sexy speakeasy, and high-end surf and turf restaurant, it’s hard to believe that the building housing the Trail Hotel was once a Holiday Inn.

Explore new and notable stays, including a billion-dollar revamp in Fort Lauderdale and a phone company turned boutique hotel in Athens.

Nearly a century ago, brothers John and Oscar Noel decided to build the tallest building in Nashville on their family’s downtown lot, introducing a 12-story luxury hotel—fittingly dubbed the Noel Hotel—to the rapidly growing area. For more than 40 years it thrived, hosting the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Babe Ruth. After being purchased by a bank in 1972, its doors were closed to overnight guests—that is, until 2017, when it reopened with a refreshed name and look. Enter: Noelle.

Discover a “circus chic” resort, mountaintop treehouse suites, stellar stargazing cabins, and outstanding stays that earned a Michelin Key.

A peaceful feeling sets in several miles before pulling up to the Dunlin, the new Auberge Resorts Collection property on Johns Island, South Carolina. Quiet, winding roads lined with moss-draped live oaks lead the way to the Kiawah River resort located just 20 miles from Charleston—close enough to the city’s world-class dining and shopping but just far enough to feel the natural seclusion.  

Plus: 100 years of the largest hotel in Arkansas, Mississippi's first Black-owned B&B, and three new stays across the region.

Need a fresh start? Amrit Island Resort, a new wellness-focused luxury property on Florida’s Singer Island, can help with that. Amrit is a Sanskrit word meaning “the elixir of life,” and the seaside escape just north of Palm Beach uses five “pillars of wellness”—nutrition, mindfulness, sleep, relaxation, and fitness—to lead visitors on a self-improvement journey, personalized to fit each guest’s health goals.

Ditch the luxe-lodge mountain aesthetic and opt for something, well, radically different at Asheville’s stylish new hotel the Radical. When transforming the property into an upscale 70-room hotel, the new owners chose to embrace the building’s history and hired local artists to further embellish the exposed-brick walls in the guest rooms, lobby, and other common areas with vivid, graffiti-style murals.

Plus: a newly renovated lodge in Highlands, a striking, upscale property in Atlanta, and top spots for bachelorette parties.

Plus: new hotel openings across the Southeast, a golf getaway in northwest Georgia, and an inclusive stay in South Carolina.