It’s always a delight when we get to return to the best luxury resort in a country many years later and see how it has progressed. We recently returned to the Four Seasons Peninsula Papagayo in Costa Rica, just before its 20th birthday, and it was a great experience all around. We can’t say it [&hellip
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The Four Seasons Tamarindo Resort on the Pacific Coast of Mexico was a decade in the making, but it was worth the wait. It took that long between the initial talks and the first guest check-in to complete the road to the bay, build the structures by the ocean, build the cliffside suites, finish all [&hellip
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Last month I visited the Four Seasons Punta Mita Resort & Spa for the third time. Every time it gets better, thanks to continual renovations and redesigns, upgrades, and a small army of well-trained staffers to look after your every need. There are around 800 of those staffers making sure you have an enjoyable stay, [&hellip
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There are very few cities in the world that have two Four Seasons hotels and they are mostly cities with a flood of BP and C-level business travelers, such as Boston, New York, and London. You can add a city from Latin America to that list though: Bogota, Colombia. The Four Seasons Bogota is one [&hellip
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Despite formidable new competition in Mexico City, Four Seasons remains the prestige address. Sure, Las Alcobas is an impressive small hotel with great rooms and the ginormous St. Regis Mexico City that opened a few blocks away at the end of 2009 is at the other end of the scale with its 31-story building. Both are places [&hellip
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When luxury hotels do battle trying to one-up each other, the guests reap the benefits. Some amenities come and go—remember when suites had to have a fax machine? Others become so popular that they get folded into the requirements for AAA 5-diamond awards, like having three phones in the room or a shower stall separate [&hellip
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