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Altapura Val Thorens, France

Rupert Mellor — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:34:02 +0000

Once the only five-star hotel in Europe’s highest ski resort, Altapura maintains a fun, funky edge in a growing luxury market through bold, idiosyncratic design. Nowadays, there are swishier accommodations in Val Thorens – crowned the planet’s best ski resort by the World Ski Awards for ten of the last 13 years – than Altapura, but there’s something about its combination of classy comforts and idiosyncratic design that’s quintessentially, quirkily French, and that keeps us coming back. Time was, the […]

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Val Thorens, France appeared first on OutThere magazine.

The Layover: Downhill fast

Zack Cahill — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:21:56 +0000

In his latest column, avowed non-skier Zack Cahill explores the alternative winter escapes for those who don't fancy breaking their bones on the pistes.

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Downhill fast appeared first on OutThere magazine.

Tierra Atacama San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Steffen Michels — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:21:30 +0000

Tierra Atacama, which first opened in 2008 and awakened from a $20 million face lift (sorry, beauty sleep) spearheaded by architects Rodrigo Searle and Matías González in April 2025, was arguably conceived not so much as a collection of rooms filled with beds and bathrobes, but rather, as a reservoir of local culture, and a tribute to desert living. That Tierra Atacama is the type of hotel that seeks to weave a local narrative into each guest’s stay was obvious […]

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San Pedro de Atacama, Chile appeared first on OutThere magazine.

The Guesthouse Hotel Chicago, Illinois, USA

Rupert Mellor — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:00:01 +0000

Go local in the groovy, diverse North Side neighbourhood of Andersonville, with your own swanky apartment at the Guesthouse Hotel Chicago. This charming place to stay will put you within steps of a unique tapestry of inclusive, independent dining, design, tippling and lifestyle businesses. It’s hard to think of a vibey, hospitality-rich neighbourhood more harmoniously diverse than Chicago’s northern inner-burb Andersonville. Once the centre of the city’s Swedish community, whose roots are still represented in landmarks like the Swedish American […]

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Chicago, Illinois, USA appeared first on OutThere magazine.

Virtuoso Travel Week 2025: In the next, inevitably AI-driven year, will human connection become the ultimate luxury?

Uwern Jong — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:56:21 +0000

One phrase echoed with particular resonance at Virtuoso® Travel Week earlier this year – "Human Connection" and we are reminded that while technology can send us anywhere in a click, it is still people who make travel truly OutThere.

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In the next, inevitably AI-driven year, will human connection become the ultimate luxury? appeared first on OutThere magazine.

Cali Mykonos Mykonos, Greece

Uwern Jong — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:22:26 +0000

There’s a moment, somewhere between the last boat back from Super Paradise and the eye-watering bill at Scorpios, when the world seems to decelerate. It’s when you realise that Mykonos doesn’t have to play just the one bass-thumping note. Cali Mykonos is a destination resort that seduces not with spectacle but with sun-bleached understatement and a knowing wink. This isn’t the Mykonos of champagne spray and marathon beach parties (though we still hold her in fond regard) – this is […]

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Mykonos, Greece appeared first on OutThere magazine.

Serra Cafema Skeleton Coast, Namibia

Xenia Taliotis — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:34:48 +0000

It’s hard to imagine a more otherworldly setting than that of this quietly sumptuous desert lodge, set in its own lush river oasis in Namibia’s far-flung north west. Elegant design, referencing the land’s Himba custodians, and seamless service conspire to further heighten guests’ glorious desert immersion at Serra Cafema. When darkness falls in Namibia, so, notably, does the temperature. But any discomfort from cool night air nipping our faces was far outweighed by the rewards of lingering on our partly […]

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Skeleton Coast, Namibia appeared first on OutThere magazine.

Carrie-Ann Lightley: What I want from travel in 2026 as a disabled traveller

Carrie-Ann Lightley — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:22:57 +0000

Months after her appearance at OutThere's 2025 Icons of Inclusion event, blogger Carrie-Ann Lightley explains how and why the travel industry must do better for disabled travellers in 2026.

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Samsara Ubud Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Steffen Michels — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:43:04 +0000

Some travellers looking for Bali ‘as it used to be’ (and continues to be advertised) might have the luxury of waiting for the arrival of time travel. But unless you count yourself among them, your best chance of an authentically Balinese experience is to base yourself beyond the island’s most popular destinations. Samsara Ubud, an LGBT-owned rainforest resort, is just 25 minutes from Bali’s spiritual centre – but it feels a world away. At breakfast on the first morning of […]

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Ubud, Bali, Indonesia appeared first on OutThere magazine.

Hôtel Le Coucou Méribel, France

Rupert Mellor — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:47:24 +0000

The first alpine offering in the preposterously groovy Maisons Pariente group’s design-forward boutique portfolio, Hôtel Le Coucou Méribel calls a refreshing new tune in the French Alps. Five-star hotels were never historically part of Méribel’s DNA. Sitting at the heart of France’s mythic Les Trois Vallées ski area, which, with its 600km of pistes, is famously the world’s largest, this buzzing Brits’ favourite traditionally prided itself on its cosy accessibility, happy to let its next-valley-neighbour Courchevel fluff the exclusive whims […]

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Méribel, France appeared first on OutThere magazine.