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Combine one of the most luxurious and accommodating hotel chains in the world with a little do-gooder, save-the-animals mentality and you get the elephant-rescue program at the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, below. Guests at the Thai resort have the opportunity to adopt, interact with and tend elephants that have been saved from city streets and placed in the care of the Four Seasons...
...longer relegated to crazy bow ties or oddball shirts, polka dots are the snappy, happy look of the resort season (now one of the biggest-selling seasons in fashion). Christian Lacroix splashed them on slingbacks, and Oscar de la Renta covered a swingy white silk faille dress with them. Crisp and graphic, they have a youthful air but look appropriate on women of every...
Destination clubs, in which you plunk down a sizable deposit and pay an annual fee for access to luxury resort homes around the world, aren't the bargains they once were. Many are raising fees and dues, and some are shedding properties and initiating stricter reservation systems. And in the wake of a July bankruptcy filing by Tanner & Haley, the industry pioneer, the possibility of losing your privileges and your entire deposit has come front and center...
Exclusive Resorts, by far the biggest club with 300 homes in 35 destinations, raised prices 10% this summer. A mid-level membership is now $325,000, with annual dues of $19,500. Ultimate Resort and Quintess have also hiked prices. Crescendo is not only raising prices but also cutting the number of nights you may stay at its properties...
...been calling for regulation for three years," says Howard Nussbaum, president of the American Resort Development Association, a trade group. He believes basic consumer protections that would have prevented the kind of losses experienced by Tanner & Haley members will be in place in some states by spring. But even then, prospective members will need to ask tough questions...