The newest Hip Hotels volume focuses on winter sports and stylish places to stay. With ever more people enjoying the thrill and the spectacle of the mountains, the choice of ski hotels has become enormous, yet they are overwhelmingly mediocre. Now Herbert Ypma proves that there are alternatives to t[...]

Glittering turquoise waters lapping onto pure white sand, sea birds riding the breeze...give or take surf, the perfect beach is pretty much the same the world over. But that is certainly not true of the perfect beach hotel. On the shores of six continents, each of these Hip Hotels expresses the uniq[...]

A new direction for the best-selling series: "Hip Hotels" focusing uniquely on cities.
In the six years since Herbert Ypma invented a new genre of travel publishing with the original "Hip Hotels," an astonishing expansion has brought Highly Individual Places into every neighborhood of one of the[...]

"Hip Hotels Paris" is one of two special "Hip Hotels" editions publishing this spring, the first book in the series to focus uniquely on cities. In a smaller, more easily portable format than usual, these beautifully designed and lavishly produced books offer up a breathtaking selection of destinati[...]

From the originator of the bestselling "HIP Hotels" series comes a book that will once again revolutionize our approach to travel. "Amazing Places Cost Nothing" is a call to arms for a return to the old-fashioned adventure of authentic travel, in an age in which monolithic global brands dominate, an[...]