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Members' Choice 2018: Most Culturally Connected Hotel

Immersion in the local culture is important to our members. These hotels offer a strong sense of place, while also focusing on community outreach.

9 Hotels With Secret Cinemas

When a cinema is attached to a luxury hotel, seeing a movie becomes an even more special experience. Here are 9 hotels where film buffs can feel right at home.

Explore & Restore: 11 Great Outdoor Escapes

The great outdoors means different things to different people. Here are 11 of our favorite hideaways where nature takes center stage.

Hideaway of the Year: Fogo Island Inn

Many of us have a recurring dream about getting away from it all and exploring the far corners of the earth. Fogo Island is its realization.

Slideshow | Fogo Island Inn: 2015 Hideaway of the Year

Each year, we have the pleasure of recalling our travel experiences and singling out a number of particularly memorable hotels and resorts. Here is Andrew Harper's 2015 Hideaway of the Year: Fogo Island Inn.

August 2014 Hideaway Report Videos

Videos from my trips to Europe and the Atlantic coast.

Discovering Fogo Island, Newfoundland

Quilts and Carvings at the Fogo Island Artisans’ Guild

Just beside the turnoff to the Fogo Island Inn stands Wind and Waves, the artisans' guild on the island. The structure serves two purposes -- to provide work space, especially for the active quilting circle, whose pieces adorn every bed at the inn; and as a retail outlet for artists and craftspeople.

Iceberg Alley

While at the Fogo Island Inn, we hiked, toured, met with craftspeople and fishermen, and even did a little foraging along the shoreline. But without question, the most exciting activity of our stay was heading into the open sea to view the icebergs that drift by the island, carried on the Labrador Current.

Fogo Island Inn: An Improbable Triumph

I doubt very much that had you asked a young Zita Cobb her goal in life, she would have replied that she wanted to create an inn of such singular design and ambition that it would garner international attention and bring visitors from the world over to her remote island home off the coast of Newfoundland.