Boutique Hotels Offer Different Experiences

Forget the Four Seasons crowds and snobs who adore The Leading Hotels of the World. Epoque Hotels, which has been building its portfolio of boutique properties for five years, tantalizes with a different kind of hotel experience (apparently, one with a lot of hyphenated adjectives needed to describe it): avant-garde, trendy-chic and luxury-classic. While that may sound like just so much hype, their collection of 270 innovative, creative hotels around the globe reveals some stimulating surprises.  Read more