The rate is all-inclusive, folding in the hotel’s locally sourced, rightfully acclaimed food-which changes so regularly that chef Nathan Rich won’t even put out a daily menu-and glasses of vino from the property’s 15,000-bottle collection selected by sommelier Keven Ring. With just 20 accommodations, including cottages and rooms in a farmhouse, the resort is at once intimate and charming, but doesn’t skimp on modern perks. Spread across 300 acres of rolling hills and rambling trails, Vermont’s bucolic Twin Farms evokes a sort of country romance-it’s a sensation befitting a place purchased by Nobel Prize-winning writer Sinclair Lewis for his wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson, as part of his engagement promise to her. It’s perfect for a stroll at dusk-though it also debuted an extension this spring, adding an herb garden, an organic vegetable orchard, and an artist’s residence. Le Jardin, the verdant garden designed by Spanish landscape architect Luis Vallejo, stretches across more than six acres, and comprises the pool and the restaurant of the same name. If you do decide to leave your room, (though, you very well may not) head to the spa, venture into a shopping trip like none other, and try one of the three superb restaurants: La Grande Table Marocaine and La Grande Table Française, both overseen by chef Yannick Alléno from Paris’s Le Meurice, and Le Sesamo, from chef Massimiliano Alajmo. Each of the 53 individual three-story riads (villas) have a mini courtyard (with a canopy that automatically unfurls if rain is detected) a dazzling living room and bedroom with silk-covered walls a private rooftop terrace with a fireplace and heated plunge pool, and 24/7 private butler service-because of course. (Netflix, for example, is a great spot for a good love movie.) Fire one of these up when you want big feelings, swelling music, broken hearts or kisses in the rain, and get ready to fall in love again.You can bet that just about every detail at this palatial Marrakech hotel, which took more than three years and 1,200 master craftsmen to build, aims to please. While these types of romances are getting harder and harder to find at the theater - and even streaming services are geared more towards the romantic comedies - they are still out there if you know where to look. When you're in the mood, these are the best romantic movies of all time (that aren't rom-coms, though sometimes the line is blurry), listed in reverse chronological order. Although rom-coms certainly give audiences the feels, they're not the swooning, yearning emotions you get from a straight-ahead romance. When you think about cinema's greatest moments - those time-tested, all-time best that remind us why movies are great - how many of them are heart-stopping, romantic kisses? All-enveloping embraces? A scene where one person triumphantly runs towards another? So while action movies, comedy films and blockbuster superhero flicks all have their places, when you really want something that hits deep into the soul, it's time to reach for those romantic movies.Īnd I'm not talking about romantic comedies, either.
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