Just 2 hours from Cincinnati sits the top rated hotel in America (according to Conde Nast Traveler) and the 6th best in the world. Is this possible? Or, like the two way mirrors in the bathrooms, is it a trick? Paul and I went back this weekend a second time to see if we were dreaming. Turns out it's all quite real.
21c museum hotel is strangely affordable, thanks to its location in downtown Louisville (a short walk from the Louisville Slugger museum), yet it offers wonderfully curated international art exhibits by living artists, and a world class restaurant, Proof on Main. Each time you wait for an elevator you are uniquely entertained by video art, interactive art and whimsical light fixtures. In each guest room, there is original framed artwork, the loveliest bath products, an excellent bed, pillows and bed linens, gourmet coffee by the cup, a fully loaded ipod, and a plasma screen streaming short art films. On the basement level of the building is a great gym and the consistently fantastic massage therapists who, more than any others I know, can expertly knead out and release locked up yoga hip, tight violin shoulder and tired decorative painting neck.
In case you are wondering about the promotional tenor of this post, nobody pays me to mention them on my blog. Maybe someday, but not yet. I just like to share joy whenever I stumble across it. Enjoy!
Oh, and even better great news for Cincinnati - 21c is planning to open its second location in the old Metropole building downtown in 2012!
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