Mexico City is emerging as a destination for architecturally stunning hotels, and Downtown Hotel is no different. It’s a boutique hotel of thoughtful design that looks like it could be both the perfect place to unwind, or wind-up – whatever you’re feeling
The seemingly strange bedfellows of 17th century colonialist opulence and historically simplistic Mexican minimalism work together beautifully, like a champion Mexican wrestling tag-team.
The rooftop bar and pool is to die for, an oasis of calm in a bustling city that is anything but. The hotel is located in trendy La Condesa, an upmarket jungle of bistros and art galleries.
The human race is obsessed with drones at the moment, and for good reason: they’re fricking awesome.
The DJI Mavic 3 has just been released, and drone experts (doctors of the drone, droneis considered the best that exists. Seriously, this thing is super cool.
Previous versions of the Mavic have been the gold standard for drones for a few years, and there’s a hype around this one that appears to be justified, judging from the footage below.
You can fly these for up to 46 minutes, which is 15 longer than any previous Mavic. There’s a couple of cameras in there, for different uses, but it’s the 5k video quality that you come for – we’re talking crystal clear here.
It’s got a price tag to match the hype but with Black Friday coming up, you might be able to find a deal somewhere…and even if you don’t it’s worth it.
This is the only Doctor you’ll want to keep visiting again and again.
Dr. Wilkinson’s Backyard Resort and Mineral Springs is an extremely cool wellness resort shrouded in nostalgia in Calistoga, in America’s south-west.
Calistoga has natural hot springs, and in 1952 Dr Wilkinson himself introduced the first mud baths in this part of the world, for the point of wellness. The Doc’s original blue 1952 Buick is still parked out front of the resort in 2021, surely racking biblical amounts of parking fines.
The resort is unassuming to look at from the outside: an uninspiring grey brick façade down a palm-tree lined street could lead you to think this is just another shoddy downtown motel with a pool you daren’t dream of swimming in.
But behind this are gorgeous rooms of bright 1980s colours, a grassy backyard with mountain views, a swimming pool, picnic blankets, swings and outdoor baths.
There’s also a wellness area to be pampered, so the Doc’s spirit of looking after people lives on.
The City Climb at Edge opened this week in New York City, an experience that is totally dependent on your opinion of heights.
The Edge is a 30 metre platform suspended 100 stories in the air, giving 360 degree views out over the Big Apple. It’s the highest outdoor deck in the Western Hemisphere.
For absolute thrill seekers, you can now do the City Climb: Scale the outside of the adjacent skyscraper and lean out over the edge, with nothing but 1200 feet of air beneath you.
This is either epic or a “get absolutely f****ed” experience….or a little bit of both.
Attention those with an unlucky love life: this may be the perfect stay for you.
Sarah Jessica Parker will host several lucky fans at the iconic New York City apartment of Carrie Bradshaw, the patron saint of hopeless romantics she has depicted for over two decades on iconic HBO show Sex and the City.
Fans will be able to live their best lives sipping Cosmopolitans, typing pensively on laptops, and chatting with friends on a massive circa-2000 cordless phone at Carrie’s Upper East side apartment.
The stay marks 23 years since the release of And Just Like That, the new series looking at the next chapter of the lives of Bradshaw and co.
There’s two one-night stays available through AirBnB on November 12 and 13.
get lost to planet earth: there’s a moon heading for a collision with Vegas.
With Branson and the like jettisoning off to the actual moon, the appropriately named Moon World Resorts Inc. is bringing the Big Cheese to us (to Las Vegas, specifically).
The Canadian-based company has announced plans for a $5 billion, 5.5-million-square-foot hotel whose signature feature will be a gigantic replica of the moon.
The moon itself will be 1/75,000th the size of the real thing. Which is actually pretty big, judging from the photo they’ve released.
The rest is a big deal too: a 2,500-seat theatre, a spaceship nightclub, a planetarium, a 5,000-seat event centre and 10,000-seat arena. And, of course, a 130,000-square-foot casino (this is Vegas)
Ninety-minute trips across 10 acres of craters in a ‘moon buggy’ will be available for $500 USD.
This is no conspiracy theory either – expected landing is in 2026 or 2027. More are planned after that, with telescopes set to the Middle East, China, and Spain.
Underwater hotels in the 1980s weren’t really a thing.
When we say they weren’t really a thing, we mean they didn’t exist at all. Until Jules’ Undersea Lodge came along.
YouTuber Ryan Trahan recently spent a night in the Lodge, which was the world’s first underwater hotel when it came arrived in (beneath) Florida in 1985. Before that it was a laboratory.
And while the upscale versions in Dubai and such now are luxurious affairs, this one is anything but. You even have to scuba dive to get there.
My passion for photography developed in a very specific way: through tinkering impetuously with camera lenses. This cannot be called reinventing photography, but it did shape me into the photographer I am today. Using a 45-millimeter tilt-shift lens, I folded the rubber in such a way that the image loses its characteristic sharpness in areas. With the right subject and perspective, the miniature effect quickly makes a realistic scene look orchestrated. Unconsciously, our mind interprets Tilt-Shift as something very small. This year, I focused my lens on life in New York, often from rooftops, bridges and observatories or from a helicopter or plane. The city simply ran its course and I documented it.
Photography by Jasper Léonard from his book, New York Resized, published by Lannoo Publishers
Over 20 million people call the metropolitan area of Mexico City and it’s mixture of fiesta, gritty neighbourhoods, dancehalls and tacos, home. Circulo offers a retreat from the colour of the city, but on the inside has remained true to Mexico. Textiles in each room are from Oaxacan artisans specialized in the use of wool and other fabrics.
You also don’t need to be an architect, or a Mexican, to enjoy the sleek, minimalist designs of every room in this boutique hotel. The restaurant’s upmarket features a delicious French-Mexican menu which, like the architecture, can be enjoyed by anyone..
Head up to the rooftop terrace in the afternoon for a dip in the pool, or for a Corona or tequila in the sun. This serves as either your preparation or respite from the craziness of the streets that surround.
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