Here’s the thing: Romance is eternal, but any single romance lasts for a season or so, and has to be re-built from scratch every year after that. Maybe that’s the secret metaphor of the world’s most romantic hotel.

The readers have spoken: Canadian hotels rule. British Columbia’s King Pacific Lodge A Rosewood Resort (KPL) tops a long list of Canadian hotels recently recognized by Condé Nast Traveler as the best in the world. 

Love is in the air, from coast to coast. We celebrate Valentine’s Day with gifts of roses, chocolate and handwritten love notes. But to seal the deal, a kiss says it all. Make it special at these beloved sites:

For many, travel is too often cursed with an oppressive air of sameness—the uneasy sensation that this bus, or pedicab, or horse-drawn carriage has driven this exact route—with this exact driver commentary—so many times that there might as well be grooves in the ground.

The very sight of those solid round logs crafted into a cozy cabin, surrounded by snow and tucked into trees, relaxes me. The woody smell inside and the calm, natural colours are comfort food for the senses.

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It’s not unusual for me to walk into a hotel, unpack my things and think for a few moments about what it might be like to live there.

Someone was bound to find out, I suppose. But why did it have to be the widely-distributed, well-read Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine? Now all sorts of people know British Columbia’s Emerald Lake Lodge.

Remember how, playing Monopoly as a kid, there was always one guy who sat on Park Place, patiently collecting rent and waiting till the exact right moment to put a hotel there?

[field_content_box-raw]Life on the edge just got cushier.