Make your honeymoon something that you would cherish forever. Choose the intimate and luxurious Maroma Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico, which is known for superb private beaches. This hotel offers a special package for newlyweds.

Their Honeymoon Hideaway includes a 3-night minimum stay complete with a welcome bottle of champagne, an a la carte breakfast every morning, and a three-course dinner for two on the beach.

For those coming from afar, you may also wish to avail of their round trip airport transfers, which is already included in the package. A 50 minute couple’s body massage with chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne after will surely entice anyone.

This past Thursday Washington’s luxury W Hotel opened its doors, finally.  If only this W had been open during President Obama’s Inauguration, but maybe next time, right?

The 25th to open in North America, the W Hotel Washington uses the 1920s Beaux Arts architecture of the original building and incorporates a bit of edgy with Diana Wong designs.

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Welcome to Bali’s own luxurious Karma Kandara Resort.  Just 20 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport, this luxury resort offers every creature comfort you’ll need.

Located on a cliff high above the Indian Ocean at Bali’s southernmost tip, you can enjoy one of 46 expansive private beach villa residences with amazing vistas of ocean and sky.  Star planning that vacay now, it’s just a click away.

Condé Nast Traveler has released its list of reader-selected best places to stay in the world in their 15th Annual “Gold List“.

Conde Nast announces 15th annual Gold List.

This list is considered “must read” by many affluent types worldwide and is billed as the “ultimate annotated guide to the world’s finest properties and cruise lines, as elected by more than 32,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers.”

You can browse by destination, type of award (e.g., service, food, location, cruise lines) or alphabetically, where you can see all on the list. Wondering how they were picked? Well, here is a break down of the criteria utilized:

Entries include the edited comments of readers and are intended to reveal a property’s character rather than to catalog its facilities. Each score represents the percentage of respondents who rated a property excellent or very good on specific criteria (see “Key to Symbols,” below). For example, the first entry, the Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, in Carefree, Arizona, has an overall score of 87.5, the highest component of which is 90.2 percent for Activities. Criteria for hotels, resorts, and cruise lines vary. Rates ($, $$, $$$, and $$$$) reflect the average price for a double room in 2009. The Gold List is based on data collected from the annual Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Survey; to qualify for inclusion in these rankings, a property had to receive a required minimum number of responses.

~~Raine Devries

The new $175 million Verdura Golf & Spa Resort on the southern coast of Sicily from the Rocco Forte Collection opening August 1 will be the only luxury resort in the Mediterranean offering a five-star experience across golf, hotel, dining and spa facilities. The Collection’s 13th property features 203 ocean view rooms and suites, each with a private terrace overlooking 1.2 miles of private coastline, two championship golf courses, six tennis courts, a 43,000-sq.-ft. spa, fitness and yoga center, four restaurants, 55 private villas, a conference center, ballroom, open-air amphitheater and helipad.

To celebrate its much-anticipated opening of the 570-acre beachfront resort, Verdura is offering guests visiting between August 1 and December 31 complimentary benefits including green fees for unlimited golf play on its three world-class courses, dinner every evening at any of its four superb restaurants and thalassotherapy spa treatments as well as a 50% discount on a second family room. Starting rates for a three-night stay range from $1,399 for a December visit to $2,967 for a visit in August.

The owner of the Coco Reef Resort in Bermuda really wants you to buy a painting when you visit a new fine art gallery and restaurant in Paget, so much so that he’ll make your vacation free if you buy some art.

The new Caribbean fine arts gallery will be located in the former Triminghams store on South Road in Paget near the hotel. The Royal Gazette reports that the gallery will have an artist in residence available for visitors to watch working.

The $7 million gallery, wine and tapas bar is due to open soon and will have a lavish look with marble floors, crystal chandeliers and “the most luxurious bathrooms in the region.” As for the painting deal, a minimum purchase will be required. Rates at the Coco Reef start around $450 a night

The Grande Lakes Orlando Florida resort, which includes both a Ritz-Carlton and a Marriott hotel, as a new offering to tempt adventurers of all ages.

The Grande Lakes Orlando Adventure Course is a large multi-level structure consisting of poles, cables, and platforms laced with 25 traversing and climbing elements. The course is suitable for adults and children over the age of 10.

Adventurers can choose their level of challenge climbing from 15 to 55 feet in the air and navigating through a course with 600-foot zip lines and a 40-foot giant swing.

Packages vary in price from open sessions with up to 30 guests which cost $60 per adult to private adventures in which up to eight people can enjoy the course with one-on-one coaching for $850 for two hours.