For lobby-hanging scene-watchers.

For successful rock stars, or their emulators.

For comfort-seeking escapists.

I’ve lived in New York all my life, but I love checking into a hotel as if I haven’t.

The Standard Hotel is a big, brawny exhibitionist with a surprisingly sensitive touch.

The Standard, the Ace, the Jane, the Cooper Square; now, or very shortly, these stylish hotels will be adding hundreds more rooms to New York’s existing 85,000.

How did you get stuck shelling out $229 for your room when the guy next door paid $159?

The economy’s nose-dived, and tourism’s dropping, yet there’s never been more lodging here—and the rooms have never looked this good. Four exciting new accommodations, and where to take your hometown vacation.

The history of southern Belize—from the Mayans to modern organic farms—can be told through the cacao bean.

This Caribbean archipelago on Panama’s north coast is tropical paradise by day and party central by night.