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From Mauritius To Montana, Forbes Travel Guide’s 2024 Star Award Winners
The Only Five-Star Hotel Brand
Montage Big Sky, an alpine ski retreat in Southwestern Montana that opened in 2021, picked up its inaugural top rating. The win marked a Five-Star sweep for Montage Hotels & Resorts across its seven properties, giving it the title of the world’s only all-Five-Star hotel brand. The Montage collection spans from Bluffton, South Carolina, to Los Cabos with a strong presence on the West Coast with properties in Sonoma, Laguna Beach and Park City, Utah.
The U.S.-based company is a longtime luxury hospitality purveyor—it celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023 and boasts the longest-running Five-Star spa. California’s Spa Montage Laguna Beach was the first spa to earn the Five-Star distinction in 2005 and has maintained the rating ever since.
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Giving Back in Big Sky
The pandemic was an accelerator, but at the feet of Lone Peak, it didn’t just drive real estate values and remote work—it supercharged a community safety net. So much of our workforce is struggling to make ends meet,” says Sarah Gaither Bivins, who as director of the Big Sky Community Food Bank has seen her […]
From Slopes to Saunas
You need not be a skier to appreciate the charms of a great slopeside spa, as this short list of top winter resorts from Europe to North America proves. Such hotels can be their own attraction for non-skiers “dragged” to the mountains by piste-loving companions. Massages are never a bad idea, but they can be […]
Mountain Weather. Mountain Snow, Mountain Sense
Does that chute cliff out? Will the kids like this run? Is that ice or wet snow on that face? Can the snowboarder in the crew glide this traverse? Is the Big Couloir beyond my ski level? To be a skier is to hone your mountain sense. It begins with knowing mountain weather—and the everchanging […]