Spoiling yourself is easy. Spoiling yourself well is the hard part.
Hotels, flights, restaurants, and the gear that comes with them — all of it costing more than it reasonably should. The question is never whether it’s expensive. It’s whether it earned the money.
We go, we pay, we say so at the top of every review. Nobody here is going to pretend $4,750 a night for a tent is a normal thing to do. Sometimes it’s still worth it. Usually it isn’t. That’s the whole job.
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One&Only Moonlight Basin Review: It Snowed in June and the Room Didn’t Match the Photos
Four nights in a two-bedroom cabin at roughly $3,850 a night all in, plus a private Yellowstone day. Spectacular public…
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Disneyland VIP Tour Review: Is $800 an Hour Worth It?
Nine hours at $800 an hour during peak holiday week, plus $1,884 in park tickets for six people. What the…
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Casa Polanco Review: The Mexico City Hotel an AI Talked Me Into
One night in a restored Polanco mansion for 32,665 pesos. I booked it on a recommendation I nearly ignored, and…
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San Miguel de Allende Travel Guide: What’s Worth It, What’s Overrated, and a Day Trip to Guanajuato
A colonial town having a real moment, a restaurant scene with no consensus winners, and a mountainside silver city on…
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Rosewood San Miguel de Allende Review: The Grand Hotel That Out-Ate the Whole Town
Three nights in a suite named after a view that trees have quietly taken back. The hotel’s food beat every…
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Kasbah Tamadot Review: The Best Hotel We Found in Morocco, and the Room We Had to Abandon
Two nights in the High Atlas at Richard Branson’s Kasbah Tamadot. Real rates, a $2,200-a-night suite we walked out of,…
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Pujol, Mexico City: Two Michelin Stars, One Underwhelming Meal
The taco omakase at Enrique Olvera’s Pujol, one of the world’s most famous restaurants. What we paid, what worked, what…
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Is a Luxury Travel Agent Worth It? I Used Black Tomato in Morocco, Then Planned Mexico Myself With AI
Two trips, four months apart. One planned by a luxury travel agency, one planned with AI and a hotel concierge.…
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Villa des Orangers, Marrakech: A Beautiful Hotel That Was Wrong for My Family
Four nights at a Relais & Châteaux riad inside the Marrakech medina with two kids. The hotel was excellent. We…
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