[pick] a former model recommendation in mexico

The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s website, runs a celebrity-dominated feature called BUZZ BOARD: Smart People Recommend. Most of the recommendations are books. This morning was the first time I noticed a recommendation for a hotel, from Sophie Dahl, who is described as a former model, book author and contributing editor to Men’s Vogue. (I had to stop and ask myself if Men’s Vogue was even still around. Apparently yes, but not as a stand-alone and only twice a year and it’s been folded into Vogue.)

She conveniently (though correctly) leaves out that she was Mick Jagger’s paramour for a stretch. That’s how many of us came to know her name.

In any event, her pick is Hacienda de San Antonio hotel in Colima, Mexico. Here’s what she has to say about it.

It doesn't feel like a hotel, it feels like you borrowed the house of an unspeakably grand and stylish friend who disappeared in the night, leaving a warm seamless staff, acres of wild mountain beauty, and ambrosial food. Add to this mix a Saint and a dormant volcano, horses to ride through fields of wildflowers, an on-site organic farm producing the food on your table, heavenly sheets, and a brilliant giggling mariachi band and that explains about half of it. It would be selfish not to tell others about this hotel. It's THAT lovely.

After clicking around the hotel's website, I have to agree. The hotel is listed on Mexico Boutique Hotels, a great resource if you're looking for lodging in Mexico.

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