Gary Walther
Cologne: A Tale of a Hotel & a Cathedral
By Gary Walther The Hotel Detective maintains a short list of top three-night cities, smaller cities, mostly in Europe, and so named because they can be taken in in that time. They share three qualities: easily mastered, culturally rich, and with a well-preserved historic core, often ringed by the original
The Hotel Detective: Spicer Mansion
By Gary Walther Thank God for dropped ceilings, THD said to himself as he toured the grand public rooms on the ground floor of Spicer Mansion, a new eight-room luxury hotel (opened in May) in Mystic, Connecticut. The innkeeper, Louis Shapazian, was explaining the odyssey of the building from
The Hotel Detective File: Rome
By Gary Walther There was something slightly eerie about this Rome shop window encountered on an early morning walk. It was as if a Roman Walpürgisnacht had just wrapped up, that The Hotel Detective’s approach had made the mannequins hastily reabsorb their rampant spirits, like teenagers putting the living
The Hotel Detective File: Hotel Due Torri, Verona
The Due Torri in Verona is just The Hotel Detective’s type. Of a certain age, but still beautiful, with a lobby built for another era and where a pleasing dusk prevails even in mid-day. In summer, it’s an oasis from the unrelenting sun. It’s a space that seemed to THD
Best Caribbean Resorts: Why Anguilla’s Cap Juluca Has Successfully Surfed Change
by Gary Walther Let’s go back to a time when disruption was not something admirable and did not refer to young cyber-Turks overturning industries, but rather to an irritating interruption in the relied-upon, such as electricity from ConEd. At that time (1988) the Caribbean had no idea that it was
