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In Mexico City, Personal Shoppers Keep Visitors Looking Good
Style center: Antara Fashion Hall is one of several places in Mexico City with personal shopping services. BY MARK CHESNUTWho’ll be there to help when you’ve ruined your best suit (or trendiest T-shirt), but you don’t have time to find something new? In Mexico City, there’s no need to worry; personal shoppers are more than…
Robert Whitman: Photographer Shares his Love of Latin America
As with all his subjects, Robert Whitman’s view of Latin America offers a fresh perspective. New York City-based photographer Robert Whitman’s love of travel goes back decades. As a self-described “young hippie” traveling the world after college, he found that photography was a way to gain greater access to people and places. Over the years, Robert’s…
The Top 5 Reasons to Visit Cordoba, Argentina
A historic train station, now graced with a disco ball, is just one example of how Argentina’s second-largest city has successfully repurposed long-standing structures in creative new ways. Of course you’ve heard of Buenos Aires. Of course you know how wonderful, cultured and fascinating it is. But the problem when one city overtakes all others…
Latin America’s Best Hotels of 2010, from Trans-Americas Journey
Parador San Juan de Dios is infused with antiques and art in Chiapas, Mexico. In April 2006, photographer Eric Mohl and journalist Karen Catchpole packed up their truck and drove out of New York City on a five-year, 200,00-mile international journey that would take them to the far reaches of the Western Hemisphere. They share…
Summer Hotel Deals at Stylish Mexico Hotels
Great style — and tempting rates — at Condesa DF, in Mexico City. Design Hotels, the international marketing consortium that represents an array of — you guessed it — design-conscious hotels and resorts, has unveiled some special promotions at its member properties around the world. Happily for travelers headed south of the border, the hotel…
ExpressGuide: Acapulco
Too busy to slog through endless lines of text just to get the travel information you need? Hop aboard Latin Flyer’s ExpressGuide, a fast-reading new series of opinionated city guides. We (actually, I — no one is helping me with this yet) have distilled the very best of each city to its must-know essentials —…
HOTEL REVIEW: Faena Hotel + Universe (part 1)
The dramatic entry gallery. It seems like there is a reason why Faena Hotel + Universe calls itself not just a hotel, but a “universe.” It is, at the very least, a different world. I checked in yesterday afternoon, as part of a group with Borello Travel & Tours, and from the start you can…
Prepare for Take Off
Stay tuned for the official launch of LatinFlyer.com, an opinionated traveler’s investigation of Latin America. This new online magazine offers opinionated, insider reports from the hottest destinations and the up-and-coming places you should be visiting next.Whether it’s Mexico, the Caribbean, Central or South America, you’ll find something useful in the months ahead. And with LatinFlyer.com,…