The Curation: Volume 16
The Croatia hotel list, hotels in UNESCO sites, affordable AirBnBs in Bologna and Elba Island, European antique/flea markets, utterly cool far-flung holiday rentals, and more!
We go all around the world today. We start in Croatia, with the full hotel list. Then, continuing last week’s series on European antique/flea/vintage markets. Next, the first installment of hotels in UNESCO-listed places (Guatemala, China, Belgium and France). Then we move from hotel to rental in the form of two incredibly dreamy, undeniably cool rentals in a fishing village south of Tangier, Morocco and on Lamu Island in Kenya. Of course, as the season has started I have more Capri insider intel! More new restaurants, a movie sequel being filmed on the island, and a price increase. Next, I share three hotels with nothing in common besides that they’ve been on my brain all week (Slovenia, Sicily, Marseille). Next we go back into non-hotel territory (I’m as shocked as you!) for affordable hidden gem AirBnBs in two beautiful Italian places lacking in great hotels: Elba Island and Bologna. Finally, the link loves of the week including the only bikini I have ever felt truly strong feelings about.
The Croatia Hotel List
I must admit, this was not a particularly easy one. Which is why it took so long. There was a lot of zooming in on maps and clicking on every single hotel to find the gem within the genuinely bad. My go-to first stops all fell far too short. I wasn’t going to share until I could truly remedy that! I think I have.
I must admit this is a country where my “standards,” if you will, lower slightly. There are certain places that are beautiful and that I want to go to and the hotels are just a bit more modern than I usually skew. There’s a lot of historic properties to balance it out. 61 hotels in Croatia got the seal of approval.