Certainly, Milano is not much noted for its eco credentials, being as it is much more concerned with everyone looking fabulous when the apocalypse does indeed arrive. But boutique hotel purveyors Starhotels have graced Italia's fashion capital with a truly eco-chic option that doesn't sacrifice style in the process. Their new E.c.h.o. hotel is replete with recycled design elements, massive solar panels, and water recovery systems.

We’ve been lucky so far this winter in the Northeast in that it seems like we bypassed the season entirely. As New York denizens, however, it’s our duty to constantly be scouting out the bigger, better deal. In anticipation of a repeat of that bleak and bitter January 2011, I started scoping out quick and easy weekend getaways as of the first of the year and The Four Seasons Nevis came across my radar.

Following the success of their eccentrically chic Palihouse Holloway, Paligroup has thrown open the doors to the appropriately named Palihotel Melrose Avenue next week. An honest-to-goodness boutique hotel, it has just 32 rooms, and is located quite conveniently amidst the Melrose retail and restaurant mayhem -meaning it might be the only hotel in LA that doesn't require interaction with the valet every time you walk out the front door.

How will you travel to Sundance? Perhaps dog sledding is an option you haven't thought of.

"The horror! The horror!"  When Joseph Conrad carved those words into his novella Heart of Darkness, he wasn't anticipating today's mania for pop-up installations of everything. Yet that may be some people's first reaction upon hearing that London has stuck a temporary, boat-shaped hotel on the rooftop of a Thames River arts complex in homage to the English novelist. 

With Jason Pomeranc’s Thompson brand having conquered virtually every corner of America, London seemed truly inevitable for one of the prime purveyors of post-Millennial chic. Belgraves, a Thompson Hotel in Blighty’s capital makes an appropriate home in trendy Belgravia, with posh Knightsbridge and Mayfair just around the corner.

Did you know that we’re in the middle of engagement season? We know, we thought our relatives were just bothering us about our future for no reason, but the holiday season is actually peak time for popping the question.

There are a lot of roundups of, oh, everything this time of year, but we always look forward to the awards from the blogger community, and HotelChatter’s list has some fun, quirky nominations that get at the heart of what we love and hate about traveling.

Headliners of all stripes and styles are seizing the moment to take stages all around town, and that includes several major hotel performances. Whether they’re opening a hot new nightclub or just partying with old friends, musicians all over the city want to make it a night to remember.

The palaces of excess lining the Strip are no slouch when it comes to excellent edibles, and they’re going all out on December 31^st. Most of these hotel restaurants have two seatings, but expect to pay more for primetime.