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Spaceship Neptune, a Stadium-Sized Balloon for Tourists, Is Planning to Launch in 2024
It looks like it’s out of a sci-fi novel, but its plush, pressurized capsule will soon bring a group of “explorers” to the edge of space.

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7 Perfect Gifts for Private Travelers
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Best of the Best 2008: Full-Size Destination Clubs: Exclusive Resorts
In 2007, exclusive resorts opened 75 new residences for its members, who now have access to more than 350 homes in 35 locations. But the club’s most significant new addition has been outside the home. The five-year-old company—which, with more than 3,000 members, is the world’s largest destination club—recently initiated a program that allows its […]
Icons & Innovators: Club Rules
The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath residences at the Carnegie Abbey Club outside Newport, R.I., could never be mistaken for hotel rooms. Downstairs, dual-hearth stone fireplaces separate dining areas from formal living rooms. On the upper levels, expansive media rooms serve as hubs for family life. Furnishings throughout the homes are stylish but not precious—no need to hesitate […]
Best of the Best 2007: Destination Clubs
The new Poro Poro community on Costa Rica’s Papagayo Peninsula demonstrates how Exclusive Resorts (800.447.8988, http://www.exclusiveresorts.com) distinguishes itself from every other destination club. Consisting of 21 four-bedroom homes and a 20,000-square-foot beach club (with two pools, a fitness center, a game room, and a restaurant), the 20-acre, $75 million development is open only to Exclusive […]
Eliminating the Guest Work
In the year and a half since Steve Berkowitz became a member of Quintess, the 47-year-old Microsoft executive has traveled with his family to an estate in Napa Valley, taken his college roommates to a ski chalet in Aspen, and visited a villa in Los Cabos, Mexico, with his wife and friends. But it was […]
Best Of The Best 2006: Exclusive Resorts
The number of destination clubs operating in the United States increased almost tenfold from mid-2004 to mid-2005. But Dick Ragatz, president of the travel consulting firm Ragatz Associates, has noticed a significant deceleration in the past 12 months. “There have been very few new ones coming into the marketplace,” says Ragatz, whose Eugene, Ore., company […]
Best of the Best 2005: Private Residence Clubs
Over the past year, no Best of the Best category has grown as quickly as the private residence club has. Companies in this increasingly crowded field promise the benefits of vacation home ownership minus the inconveniences, offering their members access to elegant estates in multiple locations at a fraction of the cost of a single […]
Best of the Best: Residence Clubs
Exclusive Resorts Homes sweet homes. Exclusive Resorts’ raison d’être is simple: Instead of settling for a single vacation home or a cookie-cutter hotel suite, members of this leading residence club have access to villas and estates throughout the world. Exclusive Resorts boasts a portfolio of more than 60 opulent, family-friendly residences (with new properties […]