Hoosta Magazine

Imagine you on your own or with your partner for a night on a dike, 100m from the ambient noise of Alesund in Norway, and living in a 150-year-old lighthouse. Formerly, the boats entering in the port were guided. It now takes up the appearance of a intimate and cozy hotel.

Known as the “Room [...]

We knew Scandinavian design was the most avant-garde one, but discovering this new hotel in the Danish capital, it is frankly unnerving. Imagine a mix between a boutique design hotel (13 rooms), the Taj Mahal and a dairy pastures in Switzerland! The NIMB is a delightful paradox, you have to see it as a [...]

Unlimited shopping, culture and pubs? Go to the Irish capital. Dublin, voted the friendliest city in Europe in 2009, is the historical, political, artistic, economic and industrial development center of Ireland. It has experienced the beginnings of many artists including Bono, Oscar Wilde or Jonathan Swift! Cool shops, relax pubs, and historical times, Dublin [...]

Tallinn with its Baroque and Renaissance pastel facade buildings, its squares and its sweet life could be related to the Czech capital, it has became a popular European destination for the last years. But it is between Russia and Finland, only two hour flight from Helsinki, The Merchant’s House Hotel invites you to a [...]

Opened in 2007, the GLO is a surprise gift that plays with contrasts to surprise the visitor. Everyone discovers and lives in his room as it was a sensory game where multiple tracks related to light and materials lead directly to design. An aestheticism perpetuated to the bar-restaurant of the hotel, but more focused [...]

Listed as an heritage site of UNESCO, the old city of Riga has lost none of its popular soul and charm of its picturesque walks. It is at the discretion of alleys and covered passageways that we discover the beauty of architectural and cultural influences. Lost in the middle of the street Miesnieku, the [...]

Halfway between Europe and America, flirting with the Arctic Circle, Reykjavik is anything but a frigid city. And it is certainly not the funky, offbeat elegance of the Hotel Borg, which is going to deny it. Built in 1930 and restored in an Art Deco style, this prewar hotel, located just steps from the street [...]

The Scandic Front Hotel in Copenhagen is more of a British trendy design hotel than the minimalistic and relaxed Scandinavian style. Unpredictability from this hotel that’s dominating the old city and port, in this picturesque area where water runs under the colored houses and shops from times beyond.

A hotel that reminds the Night Hotel in [...]

Faced with major design hotels in Europe who continually struggle to be the next it-hotel, there are still some small discreet hotels, intimate, a little classical, where the contemporary is expressed by touches skillfully deposited over the rooms and common areas. The Hotel Telegraaf in Tallinn, Estonia, was of this ilk. With its 86 rooms [...]

Opened on 12th March 2009, the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast has regained its glory through the genius stroke of the British designer Terrence Coran. Housing within it a hundred ultra-sleek style suite, this 5 star palace reins now in Belfast, in the west of St Stephen’s Green. Around the hotel, radiates the most attractive court, [...]

When we discovered the beautiful lobby of Berns hotel, we were surprised by the design and the purity of the Swedish characteristic in this establishment. Gray marble, sobriety, well chosen antique furniture. An almost cold interior that hides a universe much cozier in its rooms of this luxury hotel located in the central of Stockholm.

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