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a listing of fun, cool, interesting, historic, strange and wonderful hotels and other places to stay. no Marriotts, Hyatts or Hiltons allowed. All price ranges. All over the world.

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  • Castle Venlaw

    Posted on Thursday February 28th, 2008 at 06:47 in uk and ireland

    Staying in a castle can fulfill a number of different fantasies. There's the princess fantasy. The extraordinary wealth fantasy. The mead-drinking fantasy. And my personal favorite, the ghost-hunting/mystery-solving fantasy. (If you can think of othe...

  • Dromoland Castle

    Posted on Thursday September 20th, 2007 at 07:25 in uk and ireland

    Back in the day, the only way rich, pretentious Americans could stay in British Castles they couldn’t really afford was to become a paying guest of otherwise impoverished aristocrats. I suppose there were Americans who actually made friends with pe...

  • The Morgan

    Posted on Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 07:43 in uk and ireland

    I don’t associate Dublin’s Temple Bar neighborhood with anything chic. I associate it with throngs of piss drunk tourists, mostly from London and Manchester. Bachelor Parties and all that rot. However, there is another layer to the cobble-stoned...

  • myhotel Bloomsbury

    Posted on Sunday August 12th, 2007 at 09:52 in uk and ireland

    One of the more irritating trends in the urban boutique movement has to be the darkness factor. For the last decade, apparently being able to see was terribly un-hip. So, how wonderful for myhotel Bloomsbury to take everything that’s cool......