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Byline: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan By Day Three, I begin to embrace the rhythm: Rise as soon as sunlight streams in through the window I cannot open, await the 8 a.m. [...]

RatesRooms start at about 267 Singaporean dollars (about $197 at current exchange rates).The BasicsThe Six Senses Duxton, a 49-room boutique hotel that opened in April in Singapore, was the company's [...]

Ask the chef Scott Smith what makes Fhior, his new modern Scottish Edinburgh restaurant, unusual, and his answer is: ''The bread.''As Mr. Smith explained it, the bread -- made with [...]

Rates From about 80 pounds (about $113). Basics If Black Ivy feels like a stylish gastro pub with lodgings attached to it, that may be because it's the brainchild of [...]

Singapore is a country of countless hawker stalls and beloved mom-and-pop restaurants that serve up excellent renditions of local dishes. So when its notoriously discerning eaters pack into a chic [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Singapore is a country of countless hawker stalls and beloved mom-and-pop restaurants that serve up excellent renditions of local dishes. So when its notoriously discerning eaters [...]

Rates From $279. Basics The Axiom Hotel aims to reflect the city that it's in. Being tech-forward is the focus of this six-story, 152-room hotel, which opened in February 2016. [...]

At the Kilted Lobster, in a quiet nook of Edinburgh's trendy Stockbridge neighborhood, Colin Hinds, the owner, is more than happy to tell you what you should be eating. ''We've [...]

Rates Standard rooms start at ú79 (about $115). Basics Village the Hotel Club Edinburgh is something like that oddly hyper stranger you meet at a bar whom you just can't [...]

Rates Standard rooms start at $399. Basics Land is scarce in cozy Key West -- especially so near the historic seaport that often is just as jammed with tourists as [...]

Rates Starting at 290 Singapore dollars, about $211 at 1.37 Singapore dollars to the U.S. dollar. Basics This boutique hotel designed by Karl Lagerfeld occupies a stately neo-Classical building in [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN For more than 200 years, there has been a bay-front inn in picturesque Marazion, along the southwest coast of Cornwall, England. The Godolphin Arms is part [...]

Rates From ú150, or $230 at $1.55 to the pound. Basics For more than 200 years, there has been a bay-front inn in picturesque Marazion, along the southwest coast of [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN The historic Crowne Plaza Key West La Concha, in the heart of the ever boisterous Duval Street corridor of Key West, has several claims to fame, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe historic Crowne Plaza Key West La Concha, in the heart of the ever boisterous Duval Street corridor of Key West, has several claims to fame, including its prominence [...]

Sunrise in Singapore and the cozy food center near my girlhood home is often a hive of activity. I can smell it the moment I enter: the heady aroma of [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Sunrise in Singapore and the cozy food center near my girlhood home is often a hive of activity. I can smell it the moment I enter: [...]

We were sitting on benches, my new coffee mate, Anthony, and I. Side by side, half-listening to the baritone rumble of washers and dryers in the laundromat behind us, we [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Along a sleepy stretch not far from the dark alleys of the often seedy Geylang neighborhood, two brothers are quietly trying to revolutionize Singapore's roast meat [...]

Along a sleepy stretch not far from the dark alleys of the often seedy Geylang neighborhood, two brothers are quietly trying to revolutionize Singapore's roast meat scene. Char, a cozy [...]

¡There are plenty of exciting places to go this year, but there also will be new ways to get there. Here are a few of our favorites. Heli-Skiing On the [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN The Hotel am Steinplatz in Berlin opened as a luxury hotel in 1913, in an elegant building designed by the German Art Nouveau-inspired architect August Endell, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRates ¡From 195 euros, about $234 at $1.20 to the euro. Basics ¡The Hotel am Steinplatz in Berlin opened as a luxury hotel in 1913, in an elegant building [...]

Rates ¡From 195 euros, about $234 at $1.20 to the euro. Basics ¡The Hotel am Steinplatz in Berlin opened as a luxury hotel in 1913, in an elegant building designed [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJust before 5 in the morning, the slender streets of little Dingwall, a town in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, were completely silent. No cars waited at the [...]

Rates ¡Standard rooms start at 238 Singapore dollars, about $190, at 1.25 Singapore dollars to the U.S. dollar. Basics ¡In the center of Singapore's financial district, where cars and pedestrians [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN In the center of Singapore's financial district, where cars and pedestrians jostle one another in a mad rush, is a squat, inconspicuous temple that dates from [...]

Rates ¡From $379 for a queen bedroom with a shared veranda. The Basics ¡The overall tone is opulent, laid-back Old South, but the details are modern luxe at this contemporary [...]

Byline: BY CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN The tone is opulent, laid-back Old South, but the details are modern luxe at Zero George Street, a boutique hotel that opened last year with [...]

There was no need for an alarm clock -- the sun had taken care of that. When the curtain of light fell across my room just before 7, I rose, [...]

At first glance, the scene outside a slate-brown Georgian house in the quaint but currently trendy neighborhood of Stockbridge in Edinburgh on a Friday night is a little befuddling. The [...]

Byline: BY CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN At first glance, the scene outside a slate-brown Georgian house in the quaint but currently trendy neighborhood of Stockbridge in Edinburgh on a Friday night [...]

Rates From $178 for a basic room with a king bed. The Basics The Pestana South Beach Art Deco Hotel is the first foray into the United States by the [...]

Byline: BY CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN The Pestana South Beach Art Deco Hotel is the first foray into the United States by the Portuguese Pestana Hotels & Resorts group, having opened [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN If the name Bikini Berlin doesn't give you a sense of this boutique hotel's playful vibe, you'll get it from the bicycles dangling from the ceiling [...]

Rates Standard rooms start at 115 euros, about $156, at $1.35 to the euro. Basics If the name Bikini Berlin doesn't give you a sense of this boutique hotel's playful [...]

Rates From 490 Singapore dollars ($400 U.S., at 1.25 Singapore dollars to the U.S. dollar). Basics It was not surprising that a cow smoking a cigarette painted on an elevator [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN It was not surprising that a cow smoking a cigarette painted on an elevator bench was among the first things that greeted me at the first [...]

On the small sidewalk that hugs a corner coffee shop in the Tiong Bahru neighborhood in Singapore, a long line was once again firmly in place. Though it was just [...]

Byline: CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN SINGAPORE -- On the small sidewalk that hugs a corner coffee shop in the Tiong Bahru neighborhood in Singapore, a long line was once again firmly [...]

The little white house on slender India Street does not look much different from the rows of centuries-old buildings that line the cobblestoned streets of downtown Nantucket. And things aren't [...]

Rates Rooms start at $159. Basics Playland Motel is emblematic of the changing face of Rockaway Beach after Hurricane Sandy. As the community has rebuilt itself, new establishments have popped [...]

Rates Rooms from $109.99 a night. Basics This hotel offers comfortable and spiffed-up lodgings in a storied building in the heart of Wichita. Opened in 1922 as the Broadview Hotel, [...]

Rates From 900 Hong Kong dollars, about $120 at 7.50 Hong Kong dollars to the U.S. dollar. Basics Butterfly on Victoria, a minimalist boutique hotel, is close to, but comfortably [...]

Duval Street, with its brusque drag queens, blaring music and inebriated swarms, may be the version of Key West, Fla., seared into the minds of many visitors. But just steps [...]

Rates Rates from 250 Singapore dollars, about $208, at 1.20 Singapore dollars to the U.S. dollar. Basics The relatively sleepy and leafy stretch of the Changi area on Singapore's far [...]

Past the coffee-shop uncles having a good smoke with their afternoon beers, past the giant table of pungent durians, past the provision shop shelves crammed with sponges, incense and other [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRates Rooms start at 1,300 renminbi (about $213, at 6.1 renminbi to the dollar). Basics For years, the Shangri-La's Kerry Center Hotel in Beijing was a popular destination for [...]

Rates Rooms start at 850 renminbi (about $140, at 6 renminbi to the dollar), plus service charge. Basics This 30-room boutique hotel, which was the Yi House Hotel until the [...]