Owning a private vacation home sure sounds nice, but people fantasizing about their own beachside property often forget that owning also means cleaning, maintaining, fixing, the list goes on … and it can end up being less of a vacation and more of a …

Students from the nearby University of South Florida pop out of patients' cars. Peppy and dressed in blue vests, these cheerful valets look as if they could be working at a luxury hotel in the tropics. But nobody here is on vacation. Gatenby says he …

“India's cities are so insistently provocative that, for a certain class of Indian, to be under-stimulated has become the ultimate luxury.” India's cities are so insistently provocative that, for a certain class of Indian, to be under-stimulated has …

Nine months after floodwaters swamped High River, town resident William Rader has reason to flash a million-dollar grin. Rader, who was displaced from his home for almost two months, has been named one of the grand-prize winners in the STARS Lottery.

While nothing beats a luxury hotel, sometimes it's nice to swap the chlorinated sheets and overpriced turndown service for a full kitchen and the comforts of a real vacation home away from home. And though Airbnb's managed to become the number one …

On top of that, they get health insurance, paid vacation and a share of the profits. “It's not luxury, but I can sort of afford living in San Francisco,” says Edhi Rotandi, a baker at Arizmendi. He works four days a week and spends the other days with …

This luxury resort on a secluded stretch of beach offers stunning views of the ocean and jungle-covered hills that surround it. Built on the site of a former hotel that was the playground of Hollywood stars in the 1960s, the Garza Blanca features …

A 175-room Marriott Hotel will open downtown in 2015, one of several new international luxury hotels. At the airport in Port-au-Prince, the whole 100-car taxi fleet is being replaced, and the government has flown in Haitian-born taxi drivers from …

Chaos reigns in every single room of the house. She and I are going to get to know each other very well … the more likely you are to prefer simple things.” Is he right that true luxury is about being understated and modest, about using materials …