Wednesday 30 May 2012
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.
Yann Casparini

Metropole Hotel: the Venetian Pearl

• 22 Feb, 2012 • Catégorie: Italy, One hotel a day, Southern Europe, Top stories

The legendary Carnival of Venice has just ended and you haven’t took part in? Don’t worry, Venice still has a lot of surprises for you such as the Biennale which highlights once every two years worldwide works and artistic know-how. In August, come for the Venice Architecture Biennale, major and prestigious event of contemporary [...]



Lyrical Getaway at Lake Como

• 9 Jan, 2012 • Catégorie: Getaway, Italy, One hotel a day, Romantic, Southern Europe, Top stories, Waterfront

Seen as one of the most romantic place in the world, praised by many poets, the Lake Como is an idyllic land to spend your honeymoon. Many symphonies have been composed on the shores of this peace and luxury heaven. Hoosta Magazine has selected the perfect luxury hotel, reflection of the beauty of [...]



Donna Carmela : Unusual Stay Down the Etna

• 9 Dec, 2011 • Catégorie: Getaway, Historical, Italy, One hotel a day, Romantic, Southern Europe, Top stories

In the heart of Sicily, at the foot of the largest active volcano in Europe (Etna) there is a hotel that should amaze nature lovers. Built in the middle of a 25,000 acres nursery, a typical 19th century Sicilian residence stands proudly among a hundred species and varieties of Mediterranean flowers and subtropical plants. [...]



Eremo della Giubiliana: gastronomic getaway in Sicily

• 1 Jun, 2011 • Catégorie: Getaway, Gourmet, Historical, Italy, One hotel a day, Southern Europe, Top stories

Located in South Sicily, prestigious island with a fiendish past, the Eremo della Giubiliana used to be an old Arab farm. Taken over and restored by a family of Sicilian aristocrats, it is now the one and only five-star hotel in the Noto valley.

From outside, this house has kept the front of a lovely [...]



Palace Bonvecchiati: modern interlude at the Carnival of Venice

• 4 Mar, 2011 • Catégorie: Italy, One hotel a day, Romantic, Southern Europe

While the Carnival of Venice is currently in full swing, you wish you could participate to the festival but Venetian classicism seems a bit too serious for such a festal visit? Very well then. The Palace Bonvecchiati is a design contemporary hotel located in the historical heart of Venice, miles away from the 18th [...]



Ca’Pisani: Back to the future

• 22 Feb, 2011 • Catégorie: Italy, One hotel a day, Southern Europe

With its “mobile piano”, the Ca’Pisani Hotel immediately reminds us of the balcony scene in Romeo & Juliet. Don’t let yourself be discouraged, this hotel still has nothing to do with Shakespeare’s famous play or even with the classic Venetian palaces all over the place. Proud of its self claimed and assumed style, the [...]



Centurion Palace: Venice my love

• 1 Feb, 2011 • Catégorie: Carnival of Venice, Italy, One hotel a day, Romantic, Southern Europe, Waterfront

Venice always fascinated you but you never dared to succumb to its romantic charm ? Put down your “Valentine’s day for dummies” and book two tickets for the lagoon. Right at the mouth of the Grand Canal, overhanging St Mark’s basin and next to the Santa Maria della Salute Basilica, a 5-star luxurious hotel will enchant you: the Centurion Palace.



Birth announcement of the Alpina Dolomites !

• 3 Dec, 2010 • Catégorie: In the mountains, Italy, One hotel a day, Out of the city, Southern Europe

Today, December 3 rd 2010, the Dolomites have just given birth to a new 5-stars Hotel … the Alpina Dolomites ! In this Italian region, World Heritage Site of the Unesco since 2009, the adventurous climbers, hikers and other sweet or strong sensations enthusiasts meet to sing the praises of the local mountains. Le Corbusier [...]



Matteo Thun’s new ecologist hotel

• 27 Sep, 2010 • Catégorie: Italy, Unusual hotels

After the Vigilius Mountain Resort, the Italian architect Matteo Thun starts doing lasting hotel trade again, with a concept of eco-hotel in the Alps which should be created by 2011.

Called KlimaHotel, this new hotel will be totally unusual. Its particularity ? It looks like hobbit houses in much more luxurious version ! Matteo Thun [...]



i-SUITE Rimini : Back to The Island

• 16 Sep, 2010 • Catégorie: Italy, One hotel a day, Romantic, Unusual hotels

In 2005, the American director Michael Bay alarmed the world with the movie The Island, where a flock of clones, including Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor, cherished the hope to be chosen for going on “the island”, paradise post ecological disaster. In 2010, the i-Suite hotel, luxury UFO of the Italian design hotel trade, [...]



Roman holidays under the spotlights

• 30 Jul, 2010 • Catégorie: Italy, One hotel a day

The brand new design hotel of the Italian capital is not at all shy. With it’s glam-girly decoration that sometimes borders on excess, the Leon’s Place is born in a time of crisis to remind us that diamonds are forever! In this sexy and decadent setting, the pendant chandeliers are adorned with black feathers, [...]