Aqua Amazon - Luxury River Cruise

In September 1958, Queen Juliana swung a silver axe to launch a ship built as the flagship of Holland America Line's transatlantic fleet: a 228-meter (748-foot) liner with an engineering choice that startled shipbuilders at the time – twin exhaust uptakes in place of a single funnel, which freed up …

You cross an active airport runway to get there. The building you're sleeping in was built in Malaysia and transported across the ocean on a ship. Barbary macaque monkeys live on the limestone rock looming outside your window. And you're permanently at sea - except you're not, because the vessel …

No walls. No doors. Just a curtain between the bed and the jungle. That's the premise behind Buahan, a cluster of 16 open-air villas scattered across a hillside above the Ayung River in Bali's highlands, each one facing out toward rice terraces, waterfalls, or the island's seven sacred peaks. It …

There's a river running through this resort that no engineer designed. It seeps out of the earth at the base of Arenal Volcano, picks up heat and minerals from somewhere deep underground, and winds through 7,790 sq m (83,880 sq ft) of rainforest garden before you even get to stick …

About 50 miles northwest of Phoenix, at the end of a rutted dirt road, sits a resort that's been pulling people out of their routines since 1896. Castle Hot Springs was Arizona's first wellness retreat, and its early guest book reads like a Gilded Age roll call – the Vanderbilts, …

On the inland slopes above Lanzarote's south coast, in the small village of La Asomada, a farmhouse that once belonged to the family of artist César Manrique has become one of the island's more interesting places to stay. Hotel César Lanzarote opened in 2023 with just 20 rooms, a restored …

For 114 years, the only way through these doors was as a member – and only if you were male, wealthy, and vouched for by someone already inside. Today anyone can walk into the Chicago Athletic Association, order a drink in a room where Prohibition-era police once looked the other …

Only two hotels sit close enough to hear Iguassu Falls roar: a Sheraton on the Argentine side, and Hotel das Cataratas on the Brazilian side, inside the boundaries of Iguaçu National Park. Day-trippers file out at dusk, but you get to stay - watching 275 waterfalls catch the last light, …