As wealthy families continue to spend more on luxury travel, an icon of the last Gilded Age is making a return: the grand dame hotel.
This June, Bless Ibiza The Site opened with 461 rooms, retail, restaurants, a poolside social hub, a speakeasy and a second adults-only hotel within the hotel, the Unexpected Ibiza Hotel.
Sprawling, precise, expensive, it’s a self-conscious vision of a 19th-century grand hotel updated for the 21st century.
“This project is positioned as a new flagship destination for Mediterranean travelers,” said Ana Morillo, corporate managing director at Palladium Hotel Group, the hotel’s developer.
At the same time, existing…
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