The largest hotel on the ultra-luxe French West Indies hideout, Saint-Barthélemy, is changing hands. Stéphane Courbit is acquiring Le Guanahani from Rosewood and bringing it into his Airelles collection, which will reopen the property on November 1, 2026, one month after Rosewood’s departure. This marks the French brand’s first venture into the Caribbean, and its very first beach resort. Le Guanahani occupies a setting unmatched anywhere else on the island: a seven-hectare private peninsula...

For starters, F*** Cancer. The mantra has become the rallying cry for those grieving the loss of loved ones, for focusing needed resources on promising research, for celebrating those who tamed or conquered the plague, and for giving the proverbial middle finger to a disease that claims too many lives – year after year, decade after decade, and century after century. So yes, F*** Cancer. And in late August, it took a nation’s treasure. On August 25, the iconic Dolly Parton died from a brief...

I am a St. Regis regular. A Four Seasons snob. A luxury hotels of the world aficionado. But sometimes the budget doesn't support four-figures-a-night-times-multiple-rooms... So to the Internet I go. Finding very-nice hotels that work with my budget is a Herculean task. My email inbox is constantly bombarded by new, luxury openings regularly; all lovely, but it can sometimes seem as though affordable hotel options are few and far between, or in some cases, non-existent. But there are smart and...