Ashlea Halpern

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Anantara Koh Yao Yai Resort & Villas

As a parent, one quickly learns the difference between hotels that are truly family-friendly and merely family-tolerant. Anantara Koh Yao Yai Resort & Villas could be a poster child for the former—a feat it manages...

By Ashlea Halpern

QT Singapore

In a country known for gilded hotels with record-breaking leisure offerings (glitzy Marina Bay Sands, home to the world’s largest rooftop infinity pool, springs to mind), QT Singapore holds its own. Taking over a historic...

By Ashlea Halpern

Hotel Baskuca

Located beside a tiny cemetery at the top of a hill, Hotel Baskuca is walkable to everywhere a traveler would want to go in Sarajevo’s cobblestoned Bascarsija (old town), including the Ottoman-style Sebilj Fountain, monumental...

By Ashlea Halpern

Thomas Dambo’s Alexa’s Elixir

It took between 300 and 400 volunteers to help Danish artist Thomas Dambo realize Alexa’s Elixir, the “biggest and most ambitious exhibition” of his decades-long career. It features five giant trolls, a golden rabbit, three...

By Ashlea Halpern
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