Portugal: Still Crushing It!

In this story you’ll meet fifteen Portuguese hotels recently added to our selection. You’ll also hear, once again, about the country’s seemingly never-ending tourism boom.

If you learn anything today, you’ll learn just how significant Oscar Wilde is to the hotel industry. He is almost certainly the most celebrated guest of all time. These hotels are the proof.

We’ve put together a lot of sales over the past twenty-five years, and we can safely say that this is one of the biggest, with special discounts at 100 hotels.

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Our hotel of the week is The Royal Hotel in charming Picton, Ontario. The Royal is stylish, luxurious, and not far from wine country in Prince Edward County.

Speaking of wine country, our latest sale gives you discounts at your pick of Napa/Sonoma hotels, including North Block in Yountville, The Madrona in Healdsburg, El Dorado in Sonoma, and Gaige House in Glen Ellen.

Speaking of hotels in our sale, Belgium’s Indrani Lodge is a yoga-centric hotel and organic farm built by one of the most influential tech leaders in Europe.

How about a free tattoo to commemorate your vacation? A handful of Kimpton hotels are making it happen, including the Everly Hotel in Los Angeles for stays April 23, May 29, or June 26. The tattoos are by NYC-based studio Tiny Zaps.

Our most-liked post on Instagram this week was for the legendary Les Bains Paris. A few years back we wrote about the long history of this impossibly cool hotel, from Proust and Monet, to Bowie and Warhol, to R.E.M. and Joy Division.

There are twenty four hours in a day, but only twenty hotels in our Tablet Plus Tuesday Twenty. Use that extra time to learn a new hobby, or sign up for a Tablet Plus membership. That’s just math, baby.

The longest stay booked on Tablet this week was 11 nights at DDD Hotel in Tokyo. Those letters stand for “Design, Development, Destination.”

ICYMI: top new hotel picks from our editors.

Norway’s Fjord Coast Regional and Geopark just got UNESCO status. A trip to this staggeringly beautiful region would pair well with a stay at the Walaker, the country’s oldest hotel and a real beauty in its own right.

You could do a lot worse for a hotel than a centuries-old watchtower on a cliff overlooking the Aegean near the cave said to be the entrance to the home of Hades. Meet Tainaron Blue Retreat in Peloponnese, Greece.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”