The Art of Arrival
Your cheat sheet to traveling well: curated tips, bougie upgrades, and savvy ways to make it all seamless.
Santa Ynez Valley at-a-Glance Best for: wine lovers, girls’ trips, milestone celebrations, and easy multi-gen family escapes Best time to visit: year-round charm, but spring and fall bring the most comfortable wine-tasting weather; even winter can surprise you with an 80-degree afternoon Fly into: Santa Barbara Airport (SBA), about 45 minutes south, for the easiest […]
This Los Angeles travel guide covers where to stay, what to eat, which tables are worth booking, and how to spend your days across the city’s core neighborhoods, from Downtown and Beverly Hills to West Hollywood, Santa Monica, the Westside, and Culver City, plus day trips and coastal add-ons. Hotel recommendations range from beachfront landmarks like Shutters on the Beach to Downtown’s Conrad Los Angeles and the design-forward 1 Hotel West Hollywood, many bookable with Fora and Virtuoso amenities.
Madrid is a city that runs on long meals, late nights, and conversations nobody’s in a hurry to end. You feel it almost immediately. In the corner bars where no one is reaching for the check. On the plaza terraces still full past midnight. In the way a madrileño treats a random Tuesday dinner like an occasion worth dressing for. The city moves on its own terms, and the sooner you stop fighting that, the better your trip gets. This Madrid travel guide is here to help you do exactly that.
Mexico City is one of the world’s largest capitals, built atop the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán and layered with pre-Hispanic ruins, Spanish colonial architecture, and some of the finest museums anywhere. This Studio M Travel guide covers the city’s best hotels, restaurants, museums, and neighborhoods, and recommends a three- to four-night visit. Boutique stays cluster in Roma and Condesa, while full-service towers line Paseo de la Reforma near Chapultepec Park.
Corporate group travel and retreat planning are shifting in 2026. This post covers three trends reshaping how companies design offsites and incentive trips, the destinations leading the sourcing lists, and why working with a travel advisor makes the difference between a forgettable offsite and one that drives real results. Written by Marilyn Olson, Fora luxury travel advisor, member of the Virtuoso network.
Studio M Travel is a luxury travel advisory founded by Marilyn Olson, a Fora Pro and Virtuoso-affiliated advisor specializing in curated itineraries, handpicked hotel recommendations, and exclusive Fora Preferred Partner perks for travelers who want more from a destination than a highlights reel. This guide covers six of Morocco’s most compelling places to visit, with property recommendations and booking perks available exclusively through Studio M Travel.
This guide covers 36 hand-selected properties for six of the most popular group travel themes: food and wine, pickleball, golf, yoga and Pilates, mahjong, and adventure. The list deliberately mixes five-star icons with accessible luxury, and includes a strong slate of US options (California, Oregon, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Vermont, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, Texas, and Florida) alongside the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Italy, Portugal, France, Indonesia, Thailand, Bhutan, Vietnam, Kenya, Australia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Canada.
Provincetown, Massachusetts sits at the very tip of Cape Cod — three miles long, surrounded on three sides by water, and unlike anywhere else in America. This guide covers the best things to do, where to eat and drink, where to stay, and what makes this town one of the most welcoming and distinctive destinations on the East Coast. Written by luxury travel advisor Marilyn Olson of Studio M Travel, who spent ten days here with her family, guided by locals who know it the way only long-time residents do.
