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Our selection of the 90 best hotels around the globe

Whether you want to take a relaxing vacation in Asia, a backpacking journey in South America, a road trip in the USA, a cultural tour in Europe, or a safari in Africa, we've got the most inspiring and eclectic collection of hotels, guesthouses, boats, lodges, spas, and houseboats that you could ask for. In Kerala, India, discover futuristic-looking, Star Wars-style houseboats made of bamboo poles, palm leaves, and coconut fibers. For the best place to enjoy a delectable cup of joe, head for a luxury lodge and spa on a java plantation in (you guessed it) Java. An Ayurvedic spa in the Himalayas where nothing matters but peace and relaxation will certainly tempt you, or perhaps you're more the type for a lush Kenyan open-walled, thatched-roof hut fashioned from tree trunks? On a more modern vibe, oogle Gio Ponti's sleek blue and white hotel perched on the cliffs in Sorrento, Italy and you'll yearn for a sojourn there.

Other highlights include an elegant auberge in Napa Valley, California where you can stay during your wine tasting tour, a historic ranch nestled in a Death Valley oasis, an adobe hotel in the Chilean desert, a hotel built entirely of salt in Bolivia's Uyuni salt desert, and an "ecolodge" on a natural reserve in the Amazon rain forest. Just flip through the pages of this new compilation of dreamy spots to plan your next holiday, wherever on the planet it may be.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #249733 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English, German, French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 719 pages

About the Author
Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published many titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

Customer Reviews

Sublime! But where is Australia?????
What a gorgeous book - fantastic, delicious photography, 400 pages plus, text in English, French & German (as with all Taschen books), and vital information about each resort such as current prices, types of food served, websites, e-mail addresses & even book suggestions for each destination. The only shortcoming is that Australia is not included AT ALL and this country boasts some incredible escapes, especially among the Great Barrier Reef islands off the coast of Queensland. If a title includes "Around the World" and continents such as Africa, North & South America are included as well as Europe and parts of Asia, it seems to me that Australia could have been included too and only added a few extra pages to this lovely tome. However, I still give it 5 stars and can highly recommend it as a gift for anyone who loves hotels & traveling or even as a present for yourself!

Great Escapes
If you're the kind of traveler that doesn't want to be near any place like Venice, packed with tourists in their baggy shorts and sneakers, this is a book for you. Largely a picture book, there wasn't one location that I didn't want to add to my list of places to visit. I hope I live long enough to visit them all. Fabulous, bigger than a dictionary, great photographs, beautifully printed.

Around the world in photos of exclusive hotels, resorts, and inns
This is a summary of the best of the various Great Escapes (Continent) books from Taschen. The fifty chosen locations from Europe, North & South America, Asia, and Africa are sumptuously photographed. It's a well-priced monumental tome of escapist fantasy travel for the middle classes and a catalog of where to stay for the wealthy.