Small Luxury Hotels of The World� Introduces Winter Sun Escapes

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OutReach - October 29, 2019 – Small
Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) welcomes five new hotels this month combining
stylish designs and breathtaking views with buzzing bars and outstanding
restaurants. Revel in the pure indulgence of a Mayan Clay Bath Day at KASA
Hotel Riviera Maya (Mexico), discover the beauty of Lago Di Como aboard a Riva
motorboat at Vista Palazzo (Italy) or savour Caribbean delicacies by the pool
at S Hotel Jamaica. Whichever getaway one might choose, these SLH hotels offer an
abundance of winter sun and intense experiences designed to spark all the
senses.

 

Lennox Miami Beach, Miami, USA

119 rooms from USD338 per night including
breakfast

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Opened August 2019

Located on Miami’s iconic Collins
Avenue, Lennox Miami Beach boasts original 1930s Art Deco design
and offers 119 contemporary guestrooms, 13 of these complemented by a balcony
offering sweeping views of the buzzing streets of Miami Beach. At the centre of
the property’s four interconnected buildings, a Mediterranean-style courtyard
features a 440ft swimming pool and poolside bar offering al fresco dining and
serving innovative cocktails. The rooms are enhanced by handcrafted furnishings
from Patagonia, natural elements and eco-friendly and upcycled materials
meticulously curated by acclaimed Argentinian interior designer Juan
Ciavarella. The hotel has collaborated with William Roam to provide vegan,
nature-made amenities in each bathroom. William Roam is a partner of American
Forrest, a non-profit conservation dedicated to protecting and restoring
healthy forest ecosystems. Thanks to this partnership, American Forest has
committed to planting one tree for every hotel room at Lennox Miami Beach.

SLH Insider Tip: Guests
should pay a visit to The Art Deco Museum in Miami Beach offering tourists a
glimpse into the renowned architectural history and landscape of the city.
After visiting the museum, put your newfound knowledge to the test with a
90-minute official Art Deco District walking tour taking you inside many of the
area’s historic hotels, restaurants and shops.

S
Hotel Jamaica, Montego Bay, Jamaica

120 rooms
from USD241 per night including breakfast

www.slh.com

Opened 27^th
January 2019

 

Overlooking Jamaica’s famed Doctor’s
Cave beach, S Hotel Jamaica artfully combines urban sophistication
and Caribbean cool, offering guests an authentic Jamaican cultural experience. On
display throughout are works by local artists Tamara Harding, who used wood
recycled from trees removed from the property during construction, and Michael
Thompson, whose funky hand-painted murals and prints make each floor come
alive. The 120 rooms and suites invite relaxation with special touches such as
record players with Bob Marley’s “Legend” albums and fresh daisies in Red
Stripe (local beer) bottles. Unique to S Hotel Jamaica are the gorgeous Irie
Baths, three subterranean marble plunge pools, reminiscent of ancient baths,
consisting of varying temperatures (warm, hot and cold) offering kinetic energy
therapy while aiding circulation. Products used in the therapies feature
locally made products including 100% pure cold-pressed Jamaican coconut oil and
Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee.

 

SLH Insider Tip:  The hotel’s Sky Pool, with its gorgeous
glass-enclosed pool and rooftop beach vistas, is the perfect place to settle
into a swing or a plush cabana, order an Appleton rum and savour the sunset.

KASA Hotel Riviera Maya, Puerto Aventuras, Mexico

37 rooms
from USD210 per night including breakfast

www.slh.com

Opening November 2019

 

Opening in November 2019, KASA Hotel Riviera Maya sits in the exclusive beach, marine
and golf community of Puerto Aventuras. This private gated community is an
emerging area on the Riviera Maya, away from the crowds in an area of lush
tropical foliage, with a smart sailing community, full-service marina, golf
course and uncrowded beach. The family-friendly hotel features an
infinity-edged pool and a swim-up bar, with lots of toys for the little ones to
use both in and out of the pool. A world-class restaurant and bar, Kocina,
overseen by Chef Gilberto Canto serves three meals daily with a menu oriented
towards modern Mexican cuisine using seafood and local Mayan ingredients such
as Chaya and chocolate delicacies. Adventurous
guests can also experience swimming with the dolphins at the Dolphin Discovery
programme, located at the beach. The concierge at KASA Hotel Riviera
Maya is skilled at arranging local adventures in the Riviera Maya including cenote diving, biking explorations of the area’s Mayan
ruins, Mexican cooking classes and diving with sea turtles in Akumal.  

 

SLH Insider Tip: Revel in
the pure indulgence of a Mayan Clay Bath Day with an interactive healing spa
experience designed to energize, hydrate and detoxify the skin. Mayan Clay has
been used in the jungles of Mexico’s Riviera Maya in purifying bathing rituals
since ancient times as a natural way to detoxify and mineralize the body.

KASA Hotel Parota, Tulum, Mexico

39 rooms
from USD163 per night

www.slh.com

 

KASA Hotel Parota is a
family-friendly, luxury boutique hotel set among the uncrowded beaches and
world-class restaurants of Tulum. Situated in the exclusive Aldea Zamá
neighbourhood, the 39-suite hotel is designed to give guests the feeling of
staying in a “home away from home,” providing a casual yet professional
approach to service. At KASA Hotel Parota, guests can enjoy the signature
infinity-edge swimming pool that has a swim-up bar and restaurant, a shallow
“beach” area for sun loungers and a place for children to play, or they can
take one of the hotel’s complimentary bicycles to explore the nearby shops,
restaurants and bars in Tulum.
The
hotel’s Kocina restaurant serves everything from mouth-watering smoothie bowls,
banana pancakes to seasonal octopus, ceviche
or shrimp tacos. Their selection of cocktails and artisanal craft beers from
local Mexico brew masters cannot be found anywhere else in the world and their
specialty mezcal, tequila or rum signature cocktails, crafted from local
organic herbs, fruits and tinctures, will be sure to leave guests wanting more.

 

SLH Insider Tip: Only 45
minutes from the hotel, guests can find one of the largest protected areas in
Mexico, the Sian Ka’an Biosphere filled with natural wonders, and a variety of
wildlife such as iguanas, lizards, crocodiles and sea turtles, frigates,
pelicans, cormorants, herons, egrets, ospreys and many more.

Vista Palazzo Lago Di Como, Lago Di Como, Italy

18 rooms from USD595 per night including
breakfast

www.slh.com

 

Situated in a stunning 19th century Venetian-style Palazzo that has long
been one of the most photographed structures on Lake Como, Vista Palazzo Lago di Como is the Italian town’s first five-star
hotel and is open year-round. Vista enjoys a convenient central position next
to the lively Piazza Cavour, the historical main square of Como, with a unique
lakefront location offering panoramic views of world famous Lake Como from the
romantic balustrades and Juliet balconies of the 18 hotel rooms and suites. Oozing
effortless glamour, the rooms showcase the best in Italian craftsmanship, with
intricate hand-hewn marquetry on the wooden floors, glass walls and hand-embroidered
Italian bed sheets. The hotel’s Infinity Bar offers an extensive selection of
cocktails influenced by the Lake Como area such as the “Up into the River”, a whisky cocktail inspired by the migration of
salmon with Tio Pepe sherry and pomegranate syrup or the “Green Mizu” cocktail combining Asian accents of Kombu, wasabi and
matcha tea.

 

SLH Insider Tip: Hotel guests can
indulge in the services of a personal shopper, who can escort them through
retail attractions in Como or further afield to Milan or Lugano in Switzerland.
Sight-seeing options are also available on Lake Como, with tours via both Riva
speed boats and seaplanes, which can be arranged through the hotel’s concierge.

 

 

And in other news…

Century-old The Tokyo
Station Hotel teams up with French luxury fragrance brand Histoires de Parfums

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150 rooms
from USD568 per night including breakfast

The Tokyo Station Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, has just
announced the creation of “Est. 1915,” a set of bathroom amenities that embody
in fragrance the hotel’s elegance and sophistication. Est.1915 blends together
fragrant notes of mandarin, lemon, bergamot, tuberose, blond wood, and white musk
paying homage to the atmosphere of Japan at the time of the hotel’s founding. This
new offering is the culmination of a year-long collaboration with French luxury
fragrance brand Histoires de Parfums, representing their first ever partnership
in Asia.

 

The Nare Hotel becomes
Cornwall’s First Five-Star Hotel 

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37 rooms from
USD462 per night including breakfast  

The Nare has been reaffirmed as the leading
hotel in Cornwall by becoming the first to be awarded five stars by the AA. The
country house hotel by the sea has been the highest rated Cornish hotel for the
last 30 years and is amongst the leading country house hotels in the UK.

 

Le Barthélemy Hotel &
Spa celebrates St. Barths’ Sixth Annual Gourmet Festival

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48 rooms from
USD1013 per night including daily buffet breakfast and ground transfers airport
 

From 6^th November to 10^th
November, travellers can awaken their taste buds and enjoy a one-of-a-kind culinary
experience at St. Barths’ sixth annual Gourmet Festival. A prestigious tradition
of culinary excellence, the St. Barths Gourmet Festival unites the very best in
contemporary French cuisine and will this year welcoming eight guest chefs at
the island’s many hotels and restaurants. Le Barthélemy Hotel & Spa will be hosting Michelin-Star Chef
Jean-Denis Rieubland from the Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa in Champillon
(France) to cook up some delicious French-inspired dishes with hotel chef
William Girard.

 

DasPosthotel in Austria
launches new restaurant “Chez Marie”

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20 rooms from
USD360 per night including breakfast

DasPosthotel in Zell am Ziller, Austria, has
launched a new brasserie restaurant called “Chez Marie” serving delicious
Austrian specialties including a carpaccio of Tyrolean beef, Viennese style
boiled beef with apple horseradish, Kaiserschschmarrn pancakes with mashed
apples and a fricandeau of venison with cream cabbage and bread dumplings.

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