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Harvest Time at Entre Cielos with the Andes Out Your Window

2013-03-22 by Phil Butler

Harvest time in Mendoza

I was just speaking via Facebook IM with Cécile Adam, one of the owners of Mendoza, Argentina luxury resort Entre Cielos, which we covered in this article last year. News today from there speaks of what Cécile says may be a record grape harvest for their wine operations, and the hotel being picked a favorite by Travel & Leisure recently.

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Great Hotels: Entre Cielos Argentina

2012-03-31 by Phil Butler

The Spa at Entre Cielos

One of the great things about travel, on the ground and on the web, is discovering fantastic new places, experiences, and people. When all is said and done, human beings are discoverers. Well, the other day we discovered a little bit of wonderment all the way down there in Argentina, Hotel Entre Cielos in Mendoza. […]

Tags: adventure travel, Andean hotels, Andes, Argentina hotels, Argentina tourism, Argentina travel, Google Chrome, Great Hotels, Huarpes, Incas, Mendoza, Mendoza Argentina, Puelches, South America, World hotels

A Savory Set of Travel Startups: Book One

2011-01-18 by Phil Butler

VoyagePriv

Some really great online travel sites never even get mentioned. What with all the stories about American Airlines, Google, Expedia, Orbitz, Microsoft, even Bing, how is the consumer ever to know who the best is. What we often see is not innovation or anything approaching the best, it’s marketing and big business.

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