Word: courchevel
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...before you set off: these large-format guides will be too big for some folks to tote around. For the seriously stylish, there's NOTA BENE ($350 for 10 issues), the "destination review" favored by P. Diddy and Gwyneth Paltrow. Each issue focuses on one place - the Maldives, Milan, Courchevel, with a bit of luxury-travel news at the back. The writers are knowledgeable, but fond of words and phrases that went out with steamer trunks; NB praises a Toronto hotel for its "unguents" (that's soaps and shampoo to the rest of us) and describes how chic Torontonians "tend...
...Bene series (NB Publishing) is the splashiest?and snootiest?entry in the guidebook field. Available by subscription at a cost of $300 for 10 issues, the skinny, sorbet-colored "destination reviews" are devoted to seeking out the hippest hotels, the trendiest bars and the hottest restaurants in places from Courchevel to Marrakech. Reviewers tell you not only what to order on the menu but also the right table to sit at. "We endure the duds so you don't have to," promise the authors in the Paris issue. "Read NB assiduously and your travel itinerary will consist of jewel after...
...Bene series (NB Publishing) is the splashiest--and snootiest--entry in the guidebook field. Available by subscription at a cost of $300 for 10 issues, the skinny, sorbet-colored "destination reviews" are devoted to seeking out the hippest hotels, the trendiest bars and the hottest restaurants in places from Courchevel to Marrakech. Reviewers tell you not only what to order on the menu but also the right table to sit at. "We en* Adure the duds so you don't have to," promise the authors in the Paris issue. "Read NB assiduously and your travel itinerary will consist of jewel...