Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show yesterday, sharing top destinations for a "babymoon"—a special vacation couples take before the birth of their child. "It's the last trip before your life is turned upside down," said Kate.

Kate offered these precautions before you book your travels: most doctors don't advise flying after 34 weeks; call the hotel and find out what medical services there are in the area and explain that you're pregnant. When in-flight, take some of your favorite snacks in case of cravings, keep hydrated, wear comfortable clothes, and move around the cabin every so often.

As for the babymoon destinations, Kate suggests the Gansevoort Turks & Caicos—where she happened to see lots of happy babymooners herself a few weeks ago. It's a smaller resort—91 rooms, directly on Grace Bay—and truly set up for babymoons. There's an infinity pool, scuba diving and snorkeling, and the Exhale Spa offers prenatal treatments. A night's stay is $350, with the fourth night free.

Kate also suggests the Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas—pricier, but with a special deal: $359 per night and a $100 resort credit. The spa offers Yummy Tummy treatments—a bit like a facial for your stomach if you're worried about stretch marks.

Watch the video for other luxurious babymoon destinations, including the Enchantment Resort (high on our Spa Poll every year!) and the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (a current Hot Lister).

Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show this morning, with some suggestions for honeymoon destinations for Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Kate predicts the Isles of Scilly—an archipelago of five inhabited islands in Southwest England—and where Will and Harry stayed with their parents in 1989. "It's always a diplomatic choice to stay in the British Isles," Kate says.

There's also been speculation the couple will honeymoon in Scotland—the country where it all began for them. The Queen's official residence, Balmoral Castle, is there.

Watch the video for other possible honeymoon destinations, including Corfu, where Will's grandfather was born; Kenya, where Will proposed to Kate; and Australia, another Commonwealth country—where Will hinted he might like to return.

Associate Editor Beata Santora was on Fox News yesterday, sharing a roundup of five hotels from our 15th annual Hot List.

Beata suggests the Mancora Marina Hotel, located in Máncora Chico, Peru, with just twelve rooms. Perfect for surfers—the shore has fantastic breaks—and couples, the hotel features an infinity pool and glass showers in every room and starts at just $150 per night.

If you're staying stateside, Beata suggests The Redbury in Los Angeles. Located in an area rich with Hollywood history, the Victorian-themed hotel was designed by celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston. It's small, with just 52 guest rooms, but the smallest of these are 750 square feet. A night's stay is about $300.

Watch the video for other luxurious hotels from our Hot List, including the Savoy in London, the Hotel Beaux Arts in Miami, and the Waikiki Edition in Honolulu.

Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show this morning, sharing the best must-see stops in London while in town for the Royal Wedding.

Kate suggests the Westminster Abbey, where Will and Kate will be married. "Definitely have a look around. It's just opposite the houses of Parliament and Big Ben—you can do three sites for the price of one, if you like," she says. It reopens to the public on Saturday.

Kate also suggests the Tower of London, a former royal residence containing the crown jewels. "Make sure you get a tour by a Beefeater, the official guards at the tower—they have some fantastic stories to tell," she says.

Watch the video for other hot spots in London, including the London Eye, Hampton Court Palace, and Central London's Royal Parks.

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Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show this morning, sharing the best new affordable hotels from our 15th annual Hot List.

Kate suggests the Rosalie Bay Resort in Roseau, Dominica—a country making the list for the first time. The resort is situated on a turtle nesting beach, and offers a simple Caribbean design and kayaking in the Rosalie River, for $185 per night.

Across the globe, Asia—a country with 24 hotels on the list, with eight in China—Kate suggests the Waterhouse at South Bund in downtown Shanghai. Housed in a former Army compound, the hotel has just 19 rooms, and offers mid-century furniture, rentable vintage scooters with sidecars, and the restaurant Table No. 1, for $205 per night.

Watch the video for other luxurious hotels from our Hot List at great prices, including the Kinsterna Hotel and Spa in Monemvasia, Greece; the Hotel Viura in Villabuena de Alava, Spain; the Fierro Hotel in Buenos Aires; and Longman & Eagle in Chicago.

So what is the criteria for naming a "hot" hotel? "What all these hotels have in common—whether it's a treehouse in Spain or a 3,000-room in Vegas—is a sense of place and real style," Kate says.

Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show this morning, sharing honeymoon hot spots for Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Kate suggests Ibiza, a haven for fashionistas—everyone from Kate Moss to Valentino have spent time there in the summer. The north of the isle is the most desirable: pine-covered hills; citrus, almond, and olive groves; secret beaches; and villas with private dance floors, infinity pools, and staff await.

Kate also suggests Mustique—Will's Great-Aunt, Princess Margaret, was a fan. It's a glamorous, exclusive place, and very difficult to get there. Most people arrive by private jet, though you can get a puddle jumper from Barbados. There are a hundred villas there—it's a cooperative owned by residents.

Watch the video for other luxurious honeymoon destination spots, including Richard Branson's Necker Island, Kenya—and Lamu Island, just off the coast.

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Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show this morning, sharing tips for those traveling to London for the Royal Wedding, along with Celia Walden from the Daily Telegraph and Simon Smith from British Airways.

Kate suggests staying as centrally as one can—or staying an hour outside the city in a county like Surrey or Kent, and taking the train in the morning.

Watch the video for other Royal Wedding travel tips, including dining, transportation, and security advice.

Articles Editor Kate Maxwell was on the Today Show this morning, sharing the best affordable vacation villa deals taking place right now.

Kate suggests the Casa Sebastiani in Sonoma, on the Sebastiani Winery, which offers views of the vines and orchards, housekeeping, and a great pool at $97 per person per night.

Another suggestion, if you're looking towards a getaway South: Casa Mono Loco on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, which works out to $90 per person per night and includes a private pool, housekeeping, and access to a beach club.

Watch the video for other luxurious vacation villa destinations at great prices in Montana, Tuscany, and St. Martin.

Dogs, you might say, are man's avatars in the natural world, leading us home. And nowhere more so than the vast, heroic estates of Scotland's borderlands, where you can hunt, fish, shoot—and marvel at the Duke of Buccleuch's famous line of Labs (if you have one, some of its ancestors likely came from here). John Homans follows the trail in our February 2011 issue:

Shotguns in the back, fly rods clipped to the hood of the Shogun four-by-four, we're heading up high, bouncing along a rocky road on a hill called Scud Law. Way, way down below are sheep, a road, farmhouses, civilization. But this hill, even on one of Scotland's finest days—which this is—is a lonely place. On the other side of the valley, miles away on another set of hills, are big stands of hardwood. At this distance, they're abstractions, dark-green forms on dun-colored moors, as if drawn by Milton Avery.

There was, it turns out, an artist involved. "They were planted to look like clouds,” says Roy Green, who manages the gamekeepers who take care of this land. The trees were planted a century or more ago by one of the Dukes of Buccleuch, whose portrait now hangs in one of the grand rooms of the seventeenth-century pinksandstone pile known as Drumlanrig Castle, in Dumfriesshire. Everything in view belongs to the current duke—the tenth, known to his friends as Richard—who inherited the title when his father died in 2007. Beyond are whole other landscapes, and they too belong to the duke. There are maybe ninety thousand acres on the liberal sprinkling of sheep—but on a more heroic scale and tweaked by J.R.R. Tolkien; it doesn't seem quite real. But this vertiginous grouse moor was the playground of the ancestors of a member of my own household—my dog, Stella, a Labrador mix. I'm working on a book about the science and culture of dogs, for which Stella is both subject and tour guide. Sometimes I think that the point of dogs is to transport us into landscapes such as this. Stella is my avatar in the natural world, taking me down paths I wouldn't have imagined, to destinations I wouldn't have otherwise dreamed of—like this lonely hill an ocean and a few centuries away from my normal concrete stomping ground. Though we'd left Stella back in New York, she'd found a way to lead me to this moor on Scud Law, land of her ancestors.

Get into the spirit and pick up a copy of Condé Nast Traveler's February 2011 issue and follow Homans as he explores Scotland's borderlands. Plus, be sure to check out our detailed itinerary to the best lodging and dining therein.

Rooms for rent (and a single hotel) are on a hill just above Iraklia's tiny harbor, Agios Georgios. Livadi Beach (the author's favorite in the archipelago) is a mile's hike away—earn your pleasure!

It's not easy getting there (note headline). No luxe hotels await (although that depends on how you define luxury). But the payoff? Aaaah. Jeffrey Taylor goes AWOL on four diminutive slices of hidden Hellenic paradise, the Aegean's Little Cyclades, in our February 2011 issue:

With the northerly meltemi wind bathing us in cool air, the Express Skopelitis (not that there's anything to express about it) maneuvers around Keros, an uninhabited island that in ancient times was thought to shelter a gateway to Hades, and past Kato (or Lower) Koufonisi, home to sheep and a shepherd or two, an Orthodox church, and some of Greece's most isolated beaches. These and the other tiny islands in the Little Cyclades, as this archipelago is known, were the redoubt of pirates during the centuries of Turkish rule and have always been off the beaten track. A dearth of resources has conspired to slow development and keep visitor numbers modest, though a growing contingent of Greeks in the know are showing up each year.

Pano (Upper) Koufonisi, where we're about to dock, is the most populated of the Little Cyclades, with 366 permanent residents, the majority of them fishermen. It's also the most cosmopolitan, with cafés, bars, beachwear shops, two small supermarkets, and a number of modest hotels on a spit of land overlooking the harbor. Two hours after leaving Naxos (the jumping-off point for my trip), we pull into the port of Khora, the isle's sole settlement.

Get into the spirit and pick up a copy of Condé Nast Traveler's February 2011 issue and follow Taylor as he explores the beauty of the Little Cyclades. Plus, be sure to check out our detailed itinerary—and maps—to the best lodging and dining therein.