Best resort/hotel/ you have ever stayed at. For me it has to be the Chateau Montebello in

Quebec. We used to go to family reunions there. We went there for my parent's 50th anniversary. They have and indoor pool, outdoor pool, curling, a wild game reserve (where you can feed elk, boars, and other critters carrots), cross country skiing, etc. The best thing of all in the winter is the huge indoor fireplace. The grounds are huge. I only was there one time in the spring/summer (with a friend who was going to a wedding). There were: sailboats, picnics, a antique car show, two outdoor weddings and guests riding by on horseback. Did I mention the hotel was just a giant log cabin with a huge grand hall surrounded by balconies? A great place for kids as games of tag go on for hours.

(And me too!)

and spent the rest of our 2 days in Orlando at the water park.

On the beach, wonderful staff, immaculate rooms with great room/balcony views. It was especially impressive on my first visit to meet several couples/families who had been coming there every year for up to 20 years. It's independent (not part of a chain).




Beachcomber Resort Hotel and Villas
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Cowboy elegance at its best.

Great food, great ambience, wonderful service and a magnificient antique all wrapped up in one.

Fabulous views of the mountains as well.

The room was amazing, with a hot tub on the balcony. What we really enjoyed was their salt water pool & swim up bar. The concierge was super helpful to find us a helicopter tour that was affordable for just the 2 of us, too. It was 2005 & the hotel is no longer part of The Outrigger hotels, which means no more airline employee discounts. Otherwise, I might go back someday.

Omni Hotels are nice, Kimptons are also very good. I'm kind of a hotel snob and tend to research places to stay pretty thoroughly on Traveladvisor and other places before actually booking.

:shrug:

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1. The 5-star Hotel Kempinski in Berlin (then, in the early-mid 70's, West Berlin)
because... well, because it had all the amenities and service and beauty that
you might expect of an internationally renowned 5-star hotel. Several hundred
dollars a night back then.
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The one bad note? As I'm checking out, the concierge says, "I hope you enjoyed
our coed nude sauna."
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As I'm fucking LEAVING!!!!
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2. Same era. Some unknown B&B (I'm not sure B&B was a term back then) in Zoll,
Austria. A large group of us standing on the front porch while the proprietor
is telling us that they have closed for the season (it WAS the very last week
of the ski season). My roommate Mike (on the international ski patrol who had
drawn that mountain for his duty) weaves to the front and she hugs him as an
old friend (he was the one who knew of this place) and they re-open this
absolutely beautiful chalet for us. Gigantic 4-poster antique beds with down
comforters a foot thick. Beautiful place. Beautiful setting. Beautiful breakfast
in the mornings.
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Six bucks a night.
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3. Just outside of Bisbee, Arizona is a campground called The Shady Dell. In
addition to several dozen campsites, it is internationally known (you can
pretty much expect people from 3 or 4 countries to be staying there at any
one time) for renting about 12-15 different 1940's and -50's travel trailers
(like Airstreams, though only one model is an Airstream) for anywhere from $45
(for the "Homemade" -- a little-bitty 10-footer someone built from Popular
Mechanic plans) to $150 a night (for the drydocked wooden "yacht").
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A gourmet transplanted (from California, where it was a burger joint) 10-stool
diner from the 40's.
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EVERYTHING inside the trailers is true to its era -- you step through the door
and you go back in time 60 years. Very VERY cool.
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Check it out at www.theshadydell.com
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The guestbook "diary/logs" in each trailer are really fun to read... and give
testimony to the international popularity of this place.
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Plus Bisbee is a fantastic place on its own to visit.
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my first trip to Caribbean/tropics, w parents + brother.

Little birds perched on breakfast table in the garden, total flop at water skiing!

Simply because the view is something fit for royalty.








Plus there's the sweet little village of Waterton just down below the bluff. Horses to rent, bears to spot, trails to hike, mountain goats, boats to rent, lovely rooms, string quartet in the lobby....

Some of my happiest ever days were spent in Williamsburg, off season. Of course the company was exceptional. ;-)

It was the best trip ever! We stayed there for three nights and then moved to a less expensive hotel that was still very nice, but not like that! While my husband went x-country skiing on the golf course, I explored nooks and crannies...it was like a castle in a fairytale.

Used to be able to go there twice a year for work - paid for. It was sweet.

Beautiful place on the Straits of Mackinac. No cars allowed on the island, of course.

Smallish hotel, very comfortable bed, lovely appointments, steps from the most fabulous water I've ever swam/floated in.

Turkey, and the other was the Astoria in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In the US, we stayed at the St. Regis in New York - in October of 2001, NYC hotels were an incredible deal.
In Hawaii, we stayed at the Four Seasons Resort Lana’i at Manele Bay; my close friend's dad was the manager :)