Elite Traveler Fall 2023

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Inspire 6 2 Top Watches Our annual Top Watches feature returns, with Roberta Naas meticulously scouring this year’s new releases to bring you the best timepieces of 2023. 8 6 TopCars Alexandra Cheney takes the driver’s seat to compile this year’s Top Cars, each of which represents an industry boldly propelling itself forward.

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104 Topsuites We head to the west coast for a deep dive into the best hotels and suites in Los Angeles, from a rock star-worthy pado ff the Sunset Strip to a historic abode in the Golden Triangle. 114 Destination guides Sip your way around Champagne’s best restaurants, hotels and vineyards, or zip over to Las Vegas for the city’s most momentous event of the year: its inaugural Formula 1 race. 120 HotList Kim Ayling embarks on a wellness retreat in the Maldives while Andrew Harris takes to the North Atlantic Ocean on a Seabourn cruise followed by a retreat to the English countryside.

132 Property A selection of the very best properties on the market right now including two California homes, an aristocratic penthouse in London and a hotly anticipated residential building in NewYork. 13 6 Flight of fancy And fi nally, we head to Zambia, where Chiawa Camp invites guests to dineatopa fl oating pontoon in the middle of the Zambezi River before retreating for a night to the nearby Star Bed — an open-air, four-poster bed set atop a 13-ft tower.

Bean to bar: Behind the scenes at Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse

When Alain Ducasse opened La Manufacture de Chocolat in 20 1 3 , he decided if he was going to make his own chocolate, he would craft it entirely from scratch (“from bean to bar”) using only the highest-quality ingredients. Irenie Forshaw heads to Paris

for a fi rsthand look. The best hotels in the Hamptons Come summer, a trip to the Hamptons is

engrained in the psyche of Manhattan’s elite. When the heat clogs the city streets, New Yorkers leave en masse, fl eeing a few hours east to the far tip of Long Island where the cool Atlantic breeze awaits. Find our top picks of the best hotels in the Hamptons — each of which promises a slice of old-school luxury.

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