Check into the Bygone Era of Single Ladies Hotels

Picture this: you, an ambitious, career-driven woman wanting to conquer the Big Apple but struggling to find a place to stay. Lodging costs are likely your top concern. Once upon a time not long ago, it wasn’t just about the prices holding you back, but a city-wide policy that prohibited women from checking into hotels…

Vacationing with Wes Anderson: The American Motel Edition

Wes Anderson did it again with another eye-feast of aesthetics in “Asteroid City”, set in futuristic quasi-mid-century Southwestern United States, a barren desert setting reminiscent of New Mexico or Arizona. He’s made us want to pack some hard-sided suitcases, load up the station wagon, and get our kicks back on Route 66. After watching Asteroid…

Vacationing with Wes Anderson

It’s been almost two years since our “Location Scouting with Anderson” post went nuts all over the internet, and with summer fast-approaching and travel on all our minds, I thought it might be time for a new round of Wes Anderson-worthy locations – the vacation edition. So let’s check in for the night with Hollywood’s…

In Berlin, Don’t be a Tourist

Like many of you, I hate being a tourist. When I’m visiting a new city, I’ll admire the great landmarks from afar and keep on moving in search of the smallest backstreets and the hidden local haunts. And this is why I write my Paris blogs, for all of you who would rather be discovering…

Paris Houseboat Hotel (Temporarily Live the Dream)

Spying on house boats along the river Seine has sort of become one of my daily activities. When taking my evening run on the banks, I find myself focusing less on my heart rate and more on imagining life aboard one of the peniches; how I would ideally arrange the deck furniture, what I would…

The Luxury Hotel Complete with Live Giraffes.

Hotels just don’t give enough giraffe these days. Luckily, I’ve found one that’s keeping up the standards. Giraffe Manor, located 20km outside of Kenya’s diverse capital Nairobi, is a five-star hotel with a resident herd of Rothschild Giraffes that roam the 12 acre private property freely– meaning they’ll poke their heads through your luxury bedroom…

SWIMMING POOLS TO SALIVATE OVER

This is a little inconsiderate of me. Posting an article on the world’s most alluring swimming pools right smack in the middle of a summer heatwave. While that little drop of sweat rolls down your forehead and plops onto your work desk. Not terribly kind of Nessy is it? Well tough. I’ve been hibernating inside…

Alberobello: Staying in an Italian Hobbit Town

The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you might think you’ve seen all Italy has to offer already, but have you heard about the town built with a style of architecture so old, it predates written Italian history? Welcome to Alberobello, a small town with 11,000 inhabitants in Puglia (in…

10 Unusually Cool Places to Sleep

This morning I had a bit of a field day on one of those websites that just you can’t understand how you never came across before… If I were a travel website, I would be Unusual Hotels of the World– it speaks my lingo when it comes to wanderlusting the globe, with a treasure chest of…

The 20 Hotel Rooms to Bucket list for the Next Decade

Here at MessyNessyChic, we’ve spent the past decade bucket-listing the earth, finding the most off-beat, unique (and chic) places to escape and explore. And along the way, we’ve come across a hotel room or two that we felt deserved its place on one of those official “best hotels of the world list”. So we decided…