It’s here! It’s finally open! Now all I need is $200,000! This month’s Romance Wanderlust takes you to The Maldives, where The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Hotel Muraka Villa is open. The Conrad Maldives includes beach villas and water villas, but The Muraka features an underwater bedroom. As ever, this is not a review nor an endorsement, and in real life if I had this much money I hope I’d use at least some of … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: The Muraka Hotel→
This month’s Romance Wanderlust goes out to all of you 1980’s teens who went out late at night and threw things at a movie screen. The castle from The Rocky Horror Picture Show is now a luxury hotel. It probably doesn’t have phone though because, as everyone who went to the movie knows, castles don’t have phones. In case anyone missed it, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) is a movie from 1975 starring Tim … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Oakley Court→
Welcome back to Romance Wanderlust, where I write about romantic destinations to which I have not been. This is not a review or an endorsement, just a description of a thing I read about online while sitting at home in my pajamas. This month’s destination is Chawton House, where you cannot spend the night (alas) but you can eat, read, and get married. Extra points if you do so in Regency attire and if you … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Chawton House→
YOU. GUYS. STOP THE PRESSES. I have found the Romance Wanderlust of my dreams. As ever, this is not a review nor an endorsement, I was just googling and went “Oh my Goodness I have to go here.” But I have not gone. Yet. North Shire Holiday Retreat is a collection of cottages, caravans, and campgrounds on the moors, near the town of town of Whitby in the UK. All I needed to know about … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: North Shire Holiday Retreat→
In this month’s Romance Wanderlust, we are going to Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Both towns have been popular honeymoon destinations since the 1800s. They were hit hard by economic recession, but the tourist industry remains as well as, of course, the Falls. As always, this is neither and endorsement nor a review as I’ve never been to the Falls. Help me out, commenters – is this destination worth seeing, or skipping? … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Niagara Falls→
I know what you’re thinking. “It’s winter! It’s cold! Carrie is going to take us someplace tropical!” Well NOT SO FAST, Bitches. I’m Googling ice hotels for this month’s Romance Wanderlust, and you’re all Googling with me! Bwah ha ha! But seriously, these places are beautiful. Weird and cold, but beautiful. After careful consideration, I’m focusing on one ice hotel in particular. The not very creatively named ‘ICEHOTEL’’ is located in the village of Jukkasjärvi. … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: ICEHOTEL→
A surprising number of romances are set at some sort of Christmas-themed hotel or resort. If you crave an extravagantly decorated Christmas with all of the ambience and events and none of the stress, and you like the option of celebrating it all year, The Inn at Christmas Place is here for you. As ever, this is neither a review nor an endorsement – it’s just what happens when I Google odd things instead of … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: The Inn at Christmas Place→
Those who know the story of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s marriage know that things ended as unromantically as possible for this troubled couple. However, in their early years of courtship and marriage, they were the poster children for the artistic, physical, and emotional passion of the Jazz Age. If you have a weakness for flapper dresses, champagne, and sentences like, “I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones,” … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: The Fitzgerald Home→
This month’s Romance Wanderlust comes to you from Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores by Bob Eckstein . This book features paintings of seventy-five bookstores from all over the world. It’s true that technically you can’t stay at them (bookstores you can sleep in will be a topic for another month) but I can’t think of anything more romantic than spending time at any of these places. Some are out of business now, but thank goodness many … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Bookstores→
Newstead Abbey is beautiful and full of history. Its story features royal crimes, scandalous owners, and Lord Byron, the infamous poet. If, like me, you think Lord Byron was a jerkface and not romantic in the least, you can still enjoy the estate for its beauty and history. On the other hand, if you do find Byron to be romantic, then Newstead Abbey is about as romantic as a place could possibly get. This is … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Newstead Abbey→
This month’s Romance Wanderlust is doomed to be incoherent, because every time I look at pictures of Positano, Italy, I start drooling and losing all capacity for speech. Like other Romance Wanderlust columns, this is neither a review nor an endorsement, because I haven’t been to Positano. I Googled, I saw pictures, I swooned, and here we are. Positano has been around for a long, long time, which is impressive since it looks like it … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Positano→
