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Worth the View: 12 Budget Hotels with Jaw-Dropping Vistas

This post originally appeared on Yahoo! Travel. Considering the climbing prices of airfare, travelers these days are all the more focused on finding inexpensive hotels when they plan their summer getaways. Often, this can mean staying in a desolate, removed location or – perhaps worse – along a congested, crowded highway. But we’ve been lucky…

Blue, Blue, and Blu: The Relais Blu Belvedere NEW on Oyster

The 11-room Relais Blu Belvedere is an upscale boutique in the village of Marciano-Termini with gorgeous…oh, and we mean gorgeous…sea views. The hotel has an infinity pool open during the summer and there’s a gourmet restaurant on-site serving land and sea tasting menus. All rooms — breezy and modern with white and blue decor —…

Go Into the Wild: Six Hotels With Great Wildlife Viewing

During our travels this summer, we’ve visited some amazing urban destinations, where our days have been filled with the cacophony of cars, and live music pouring from local bars and clubs after dark. And while these urban adventures are almost always exciting, they’ve taught us better than anything else that sometimes you’ve just gotta get…

Hidden Hotels: A Half Dozen Hard-to-Reach Spots

This post originally appeared on Yahoo! Travel. Just getting to a destination can be part of the thrill of a vacation. And even if winding roads, long boat rides, and flights on tiny planes aren’t necessarily your idea of fun, the rewards of all that travel — i.e., tranquil, relaxing locales, far removed from the…

The Perfect Proposal: 6 Romantic Hotels for Getting Down on One Knee

Sure, your wedding day may be the most memorable day of your life, but there’s still plenty of pressure for the precursor proposal to be a noteworthy occasion. It can be an intimidating undertaking, and many choose to pop the question in a special place so the whole experience feels particularly luxe. Fortunately, numerous hotels…

Strut Like a Peacock at Portugal’s Solar Do Castelo Hotel

Every vacation should leave you with a certain bounce to your step, but at the Solar Do Castelo Hotel in Lisbon, you’ll actually get to learn from example. The property’s resident fowl friends — read: a friendly family of peacocks — strut about the courtyard, gardens, and alleyways, hoping to impress guests. This ostentation (yes,…