conde nast traveler

How Savvy a Traveler are You? Take the Condé Nast Test and See

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Books

"The Conde Nast Traveler Where Are You?" is a coffee-table extravaganza based on the travel magazine's monthly contest.

Readers in every issue since 1993 are challenged to identify a secret international location. Each page is a puzzle ranging from desolate deserts and scintillating cities to architectural icons and undersea wonders shot from a glass-bottom boat.

There are no dead giveaways.

The clues are there for those with good visual memories who have been around the world more than once. And for those who haven't, you can still test your travel savvy.

One invitation to figure out where a photo of an earth and stone structure was shot begins like this: "You are looking into a spiral pit, one of a series dug into the ground by a pre-Christian civilization." Another begins: "You are standing in a former watchtower...surveying a town that has looked this way for five hundred years."

You won't have to wait a month to get the answers as in the travel magazine's "Where are you?" page as they are listed in the back of the book ($65).

Tags: Assouline, books, conde nast, conde nast traveler, The Conde Nast Traveler Where Are You, travel guide

HSN Adds Glamour To Jewelry Roster

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry

The Home Shopping Network has announced another new branded jewelry line. This time HSN is working with Conde Nast's Glamour Magazine on a Glamour Jewelry Collection which will debut on HSN on August 18.

The Glamour Jewelry Collection is Glamour's first foray into the accessories business and the pieces were designed by Galmour's fashion team. The collection will have four new product offerings each year and each will be less than $100. Glamour's style editor Tracey Lomrantz will present it on air. The product assortment includes necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings, and the premiere fall line will focus on four key trends: American Luxury, Charms & Chains, Sparkle & Shine, and Eye Candy." The Glamour Jewelry Collection will debut on HSN at 2am EDT/11pm PDT on August 18 and will be available at http://www.hsn.com/ beginning August 3. Other recent HSN-ers include Jonathan Adler and Liza Minnelli.

Tags: conde nast traveler, glamour, Glamour magazine, hsn

Conde Nast Traveler's "Gold List"

by Lisa Palladino (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Condé Nast Traveler has released its list of reader-selected best places to stay in the world on Concierge.com.

The magazine's 15th annual "Gold List" is "is your ultimate annotated guide to the world's finest properties and cruise lines, as elected by more than 32,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers."

You can browse by destination, type of award (e.g., service, food, location, cruise lines) or alphabetically, where you can see all on the list. Wondering how they were picked? Here's the methodology.

Tags: awards, conde nast, conde nast traveler, CondeNast, CondeNastTraveler, cruise, cruise lines, cruise ship, CruiseLines, CruiseShip, gold list, GoldList, hotel, hotels, travel

Tropical Getaways, from Cond� Nast Traveler

by Paul Rogers (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The snowstorm that buried cities up and down the Eastern Seaboard this week served as a blunt reminder that winter has yet to exhale its last breath. For those suffering from sunshine deficiency, now may be the time to squeeze in a trip to someplace warm, and Condé Nast Traveler has come up with a host of affordable destinations.

The March issue of the magazine features a guide to 28 hotels and resorts in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean that offer idyllic settings at reasonable rates. Most of them can be reached by direct flight and don't require a rental car.

Here's a sampling of the correspondents' choices: Tres Sirenas Inn (pictured above; doubles, $175), an intimate beachfront B&B in Rincón, a surfing town on the west coast of Puerto Rico; hammock-equipped Ranguana Lodge (cabins, $80–$88) in "the sleepy Creole fishing village" of Placiencia, Belize; and, in the hip town of Tulum, Mexico, two hours south of Cancún, a "boho-chic" collection of thatched huts and stone villas called Amansala (doubles, $175–$225).

Tags: Amansala, Belize, conde nast traveler, CondeNastTraveler, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ranguala Lodge, RangualaLodge, Rincon, Tres Sirenas, TresSirenas, Tulum