Hip Hotels: City, Revised Edition

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Summary: the ultimate bible for the Hip traveller
Review: Fantastic reference of the best and groovy hotels in the world (main cities) Great design ideas witty text and innovative lay-out A MUST

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Summary: Reviews for Hip Hotels: City
Review: From Conde Nast Traveler, May 1999: "If the words grand hotel conjure images of staid elegance, Herbert Ypma's Hip Hotels: City proves that it's time to discard those preconceptions. From the faded forties style of L.A.'s Chateau Marmont to the Zen simplicity of London's Hempel, the 44 hotels (in 24 cities) in this volume draw their inspiration from eclectic sources. Ypma's beautiful photographs are accompanied by discussions of each hotel's history and design, as well as the author's musings on how we define luxury today."

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Summary: an orgy of beautiful photos with fun text!!
Review: Great ideas for redecorating my place, and makes me want to trave

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Summary: DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!!!!
Review: Great photos, great text.. The secrets reveale

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Summary: A travel companion, a style guide.
Review: If you are going to Berlin, Paris or London, forget the boring hotels, follow the style of Hip Hotels

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Summary: nice, but not totally up-to-date
Review: im a hotel snob and do tons of travel, sometimes simply to go to a city for the hotel. while the book has some very useful and practical information, the hotel business changes as fast as the net. some very fine, very hip hotels have been missed. there should be, maybe a next edition, bigger sections or more books per city, assuming the city or region has enough. in any event, the pictures are great, the text is simple to follow and pretty accurate as to tyhe hotel and it's vibe. i'd give it 4.5 stars if it had more hotels.

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Summary: The first great book about hotels - Highly recommended
Review: Just bought the book, enjoyed the text and of course the pictures. Nothing like it on the market I can't wait for Hip Hotel Escape next Autumn

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Summary: beautiful hotels
Review: The book Hip Hotels by Herbert Ypma is the second edition of the first book of his series about beautiful hotels in the world. In Hip Hotels, he shows trendy design hotels in major cities such as New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, etc. Every hotel is featured with an introductory text as well as many larger and smaller pictures, so you can directly see what to expect. The book is a nice coffee table book and is enjoyable to read even if you do not intend to make a journey right now but just want to see which hotel could potentially tempt you.

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Summary: Excellent guide to cool hotels, or lovely coffee table book
Review: This book has lovely photographs and useful descriptions of some very trendy hotels all over the world.
I have found the book a very useful guide for finding cool hotels to stay in - it can be so hard to find a really good hotel and this book really helps in that regard.
Of course, you need not use it as a guide and there are many cities in this book that I have yet to visit - the pictures are lovely and you can enjoy the book as a visual feast whether you are looking for a place to stay or not.