Welcome to the Fall 2026 Travel by LA Times Studios Journal

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the Fall 2026 challenge of Travel by LA Times Studios. This challenge focuses on the world’s most outstanding accommodations, and the experiences solely they’ll present.

We start in Nashville, the place Dolly Parton’s rhinestone-lined legacy feels extra current than ever this fall. Her brand-new SongTeller Hotel and its Life of Many Colors Museum give followers a spot to stroll the Rhinestone Trail and bear in mind a girl who made a complete metropolis really feel like household.

From there, we’re highlighting the accommodations value planning a complete journey round. We have a primary have a look at Lisa Vanderpump’s newly opened lodge on the Las Vegas Strip, paired with 5 extra of our favourite romantic hideaways, from a mountaintop retreat above Lake Lucerne to a champagne home on France’s Marne Valley. Looking for one thing extra restorative? Our European wellness roundup excursions 9 resorts the place the structure itself does as a lot of the therapeutic because the therapy menu, from a lodge carved right into a cliffside in Crete to a cedar-clad clinic within the Alps.

For vacationers chasing one thing wilder, there’s loads of floor to cowl: a billionaire’s non-public nature reserve on Mexico’s Jalisco coast, full with a herd of untamed zebras; the Serengeti’s latest luxurious safari camp, constructed from scratch by two guides decided to do it good; and Iceland’s Hotel Rangá, the place the rooftop observatory could be extra luxurious than the rooms beneath it.

Prefer to get your arms a bit soiled earlier than delivering? There’s whitewater rafting right into a riverside safari camp on the Kern River, moth-hunting after darkish within the Peruvian Amazon, and a really wild cause to e book that new nonstop flight to Panama.

Wherever you land, each property on this challenge acquired its spot for a similar cause: it’s not only a place to sleep, it’s a splendidly luxurious cause to go.