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Yann Casparini I am a hotel manager. With a hundred of contemporary hotel managers we created this travel magazine to share our selection of addresses and tips.
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A night in a pipe

• 28 May, 2010 • Catégorie: Austria, Unusual hotels

On the banks of the Danube, there is a place far from all the artificial beauties of this world. In Ottensheim, Austria, Das Park Hotel revisits concrete pipes to make an experimental complex of three rooms in the heart of the countryside.

Andreas Strauss’s unique idea, Austrian minimalist artist evolves around our essential needs. Here [...]



Das Triest: the good Viennese taste

• 27 Apr, 2010 • Catégorie: Austria, Gourmet, One hotel a day, With my family

At the heart of the old city, close to Karlsplatz the luxury hotel Das Triest goes along with the time. A short walk from the Opera House, the Naschmarkt and the shopping street Mariahilfer Straße, very close to the Cathedral, this former barn has absorbed the Gothic expressionism that have plagued Vienna.  The city [...]



Loisium Hotel: design euphoria in the heart of Austria

• 11 Nov, 2009 • Catégorie: Austria, One hotel a day

The wine is no longer reserved to amateurs! Proof is the surprising presence of the Loisium Hotel, an vanguard bunker that became in a short time the meeting place not to be missed by connoisseurs in the village of Langenlois, among the terraced hills and vineyards. This spectacular hotel exhibits an explosive cocktail of [...]



aenea designhotel: ultra-design in the middle of nowhere

• 2 Oct, 2009 • Catégorie: Austria, One hotel a day, Out of the city, Romantic, Waterfront

There are many surprising things in the world of design and hospitality, the location of vangarde hotels in lost areas in the middle of nowhere, rural and unsuspected is certainly one of them. Far from the traditional local architecture of the province of Carinthia in Austria, the aenea designhotel offers a huge exterior architecture made [...]



Hotel in Graz, Austria: when luxury meets contemporary art

• 17 Feb, 2009 • Catégorie: Austria, One hotel a day

Augartenhotel is an address for contemporary art lovers. Luxurious and modern, it offers the opportunity to discover paintings and photographs, inspiring artistic productions, from the four corners of the world. An art gallery hotel which is a creative masterpiece of a contemporary hotelier.

Loft-style with modern columns, the light color wood flooring and large industrial windows, [...]



Mavida Hotel: epicurean stay in the Austrian Alps

• 10 Dec, 2008 • Catégorie: Austria, In the mountains, One hotel a day

In the heart of the Austrian Alps, the Mavida Balance Hotel and Spa has been elected “Design Hotel of 2008”. Playing on the minimalist aesthetics of hot and sleek design, the hotel asked the designer Niki Szilagyi, who likes to focus on the essence of things. Here are the landscapes of the Hohe Tauern National [...]



Haus Hirt: traditional design chalet in Austria

• 11 Nov, 2008 • Catégorie: Austria, In the mountains, One hotel a day

In the heart of the Gastein Valley in the Austrian Alps, the Haus Hirt Hotel is a traditional design chalet, the perfect place for a luxury stay in the mountains. Located ten minute walk from the famous waterfall of Bad Gastein, it is a valley surrounded by pine, all white in winter. Snow and fresh [...]



Luxury and design hotel: avantgarde in the snow

• 18 Jan, 2008 • Catégorie: Austria, In the mountains

You love luxury hotels in Paris or London? And you want the find the same atmosphere when skiing? You love design, art and superb food? And you think this doesn’t exist in the mountains? Here is our secret gem hidden in the alps. The Madlein, sun and ski with atmosphere. A bit of Zen-like [...]