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Gain inspiration while taking a journey across the USA from Miami, Las Vegas, New York to Los Angeles. Tap in to remote places in the world while experiencing other cultures, customs, luxury restaurants and adventures. Enjoy Iceland, Dubai, Paris, Italy and more and gain the knowledge of the best and more luxurious hotels, condos, restaurants, spas, clubs and let Imagine Lifestyles provide you with the ultimate lavish vacation itinerary.

Top 10 Bizarre Items Left Behind at a Hotel

The following compilation includes the top 10 strangest items, some luxury items, left behind at a not-so-luxurious hotel: the Travelodge. Some of these items are funny, while others are simply absurd—like the keys to a Ferrari 458 Italia. If one can afford a Ferrari, what are they doing in a roach motel? It is as insane as passing by a brand new Corvette parked outside of a trailer court! (You know you have seen this).

Ferrari 458 Italia

Ferrari 458 Italia

Top 3 Miami Luxury Hotel Experiences: Biltmore, Setai and The Mondrian

The following Miami luxury hotels offer three distinctive experiences: Classic opulence, Zen elegance and modern boutique. Book a stay out of curiosity, return out of pure adoration! Choose your first hotel, then contact Imagine Lifestyles Luxury Rentals and mention this article for a $200 discount* on an exotic rental car in Miami to compliment your stay!

Biltmore Hotel Miami
Biltmore Hotel

James Bond Superyacht by Rolls Royce to Make Waves

When it comes to who owns the biggest and best superyacht, the competition is constant and fierce! Take, for example, a prototype in the making by Rolls Royce and boat makers Palmer Johnson, complete with “James Bond style” doors! Perhaps we should add those to our private yacht charters?

The PJ World Yacht will be an 82-meter superyacht with a $150 million-dollar price tag and is currently being built in Norway. So what does one get for all that dough?

PJ World Yacht concept

PJ World Yacht concept

Hamster Hotel in Mexico? Mas Cerveza, Por Favor!

Cerveza

Trips to Mexico often begin with good intentions: Sun, sea and cerveza. After a few-too-many Mexican beers, however, you could find yourself in a concrete drainage pipe for the night. No, it isn’t the end result of a mugging and a blackout…its just the Tubohotel!

Luxury Hotel in Waikiki Offers Complimentary Exotic Car with Stay!

Heading to Hawaii for vacation? Take this luxury travel tip from your friends at Imagine Lifestyles! Halekulani luxury hotel is offering an exotic automobile amenity program that puts guests behind the wheel of a luxury car during their stay. What is sweeter? If you stay in one of 3 of the hotel’s premier suites, usage of the car is free! Unbelievable.

Halekulani Hotel Hawaii

I would stay here even without the complimentary luxury rental car perk! Outstanding view!

What to Look for in a Miami Luxury Rental Service

Luxury Rentals in Miami

Imagine Lifestyles knows how difficult it can be to choose the right luxury rental company to work with. The following checklist will help you ensure that all needs are met for the ultimate upscale experience from the best possible company. At Imagine Lifestyles, we take a concierge approach to the luxury lifestyle with a seasoned professional staff capable of transforming your needs into an all-out adventure!

Top 5 Celebrity-Worthy Luxury Travel Tips

Here are 5 great ways to make the great escape famously…luxury travel tips fit for your inner celebrity!

5. CastaDiva Resort at Lake Como, Italy
4. St. Regis Resort, Bora Bora
3. San Ysidro Resort, California
2. Ocean Club, Paradise Island, Bahamas
1. Hotel Guanahani & Spa, St. Barts

 

CastaDiva Resort

Delta Airlines Provides Porsche Chauffeur Service to Valued Customers—Imagine Lifestyles Values Every Customer!

Delta Airlines is showing their appreciation to select “valued customers” with a luxury perk—a chauffeured Porsche! While that approach may impress the lucky few who receive it, Imagine Lifestyles values all customers with available chauffeur services for any of our exotic car rentals in Miami, Chicago, New York and LA—playing no favorites!

Delta Porsche Perk

Delta customer with chauffeured Porsche

Just 8 Awesome & Insane Luxury Swimming Pools

There are luxury hotels with infinity edge pools, and then there are pools that dwarf any and all competition with their awesomeness. Here is a luxury travel tip for the pros, the most unusual and awesome swimming pools scattered around the globe! They are as follows:

8. World’s largest swimming pool
7. World’s deepest swimming pool
6. World’s largest indoor water park
5.  The blood-red pool
4. Playboy’s swimming pool
3. The hanging pool
2. Global warming pool
1. The devil’s pool

San Alfonso del Mar

San Alfonso del Mar

Size Matters, But its Not Everything—Top 5 Luxury Yacht Cabins for a 2012 Sea Escape

Looking for a perfectly luxurious escape to sea? If you prefer to travel on the social level, the following 5 luxury cruise cabins are well worth the price. If you prefer something a bit more intimate, our Miami private yacht charter options are each personally tailored to your itinerary!

Top 5 luxury yacht cabins, most expensive to least (pricing examples for each located in paragraphs below):
5. Queen Anne Suite on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2
4. Wintergarden Suite on Seabourn’s Odyssey, Sojourn, Quest
3. Owner’s Suites on Oceania Cruises
2. The Haven on Norwegian’s Epic, Gem, Jade, Jewel, Pearl
1. Crystal’s Serenity on Crystal Cruises

Queen Anne Suite
Queen Anne Suite

Top 5 Roads You Should Not Drive Your Ferrari On!

If you enjoy experiencing new roads with your luxury car, the following exotic roadways are downright dangerous! Here are the top 10 roads you should never drive a Ferrari on. Yes, that includes our Ferrari rentals…although the Ferrari FF may do well on the ice road in Canada! Somehow I just do not see a new segment emerging called “Ice Road Ferrari’s”…call me crazy.

5. Darien Gap, Panama to Columbia
4. Torugart Pass
3. Siberia’s “Road of Bones”
2. Ice road to Tuktoyaktuk, Canada
1. Bolivia’s “Road of Death”

Darien Gap
Darien Gap, Panama to Columbia

How to Emerge From a Luxury Vehicle Like a Boss! Or like Beyoncé

In the photos below you can see Beyoncé display the proper way to exit a luxury vehicle like a boss, or like a mega-celeb with a baby bump! Before you judge, Beyoncé is preggers, so a bit of extra pampering is in order! She no doubt has a massive schedule and being pregnant during it all cannot be easy.

Beyonce in New York

You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella-eh…eh.

Spilled: Top 10 Extreme Concierge Requests in Miami!

Luxury travel entails far more than simply the right exotic rental car in Miami…and no request is too extreme in South Florida! Take, for example, the following unusual requests leaked from top South Florida hotel concierge types!

Luxury pet travel

Luxury pet travel requests

Savor the South Beach Wine & Food Festival

One of the best annual Miami events is fast approaching--the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. This event is popular for obvious reasons—wine and food! In case you didn’t know, Miami is one of the best locations on earth to experience exotic cuisines and wines with unique flavor fusions. This event is a luxury travel tip that is ideal for everyone.

South Beach Food & Wine Festival

Tip: American Express is Your BFF When You Rent a Luxury Car!

There is a luxury travel tip that some may be unaware of when renting an exotic car, and it involves the awesome card that is American Express. Did you know that you could save money on your next luxury car rental with Premium Car Rental Protection from Amex?

American Express rental car coverage