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Room check: Hotel Monaco in Portland, Oregon

Shandelle Battersby checks into an historic boutique hotel in the heart of Portland and never wants to leave.

Guest night hit fresh record in July

New Zealand guest nights rose in July to a record for the month as soaring tourist numbers saw all-time highs.

When Airbnb goes horribly wrong

Coming home to a ransacked flat, abandoned crack pipes, or strangers having sex in your bed. How likely are you to have an Airbnb disaster?

How to get a hotel to grant your wishes

Your hotel may be willing to grant your minor requests, but balk at the major ones.

Room check: Les Jardins de la Koutoubia, Marrakesh

Courtney Whitaker stays at a luxurious hotel within Marrakesh's 13th-century kasbah walls.

The Portside Hotel, Gisborne

Greg Fleming finds a great base from which to explore the East Cape.

Five ways the hotel of the future is already here

The latest innovations include voice-activated rooms and robotic butlers.

Room check: Novotel Phuket Karon Beach Resort & Spa

Kevin McIntyre checks in to a new hotel just off the main west coast road in Phuket.

Tokyo honeymoon spot worries about yen rise

A Japanese hotel fit for Marilyn Monroe is seeing signs of spending from foreign tourists starting to wane.

The Family Coppola Resorts - Coral Caye, Belize

Sheltered behind the world famous Belize Barrier Reef, Coral Caye is a completely private island that can accommodate up to 12 people in its two wooden cottages. For further information see <strong><a href='https://www.thefamilycoppolaresorts.com/en/turtle-inn/dwellings/coral-caye' target='_blank'>thefamilycoppolaresorts.com</a></strong>

Room check: Double Tree by Hilton, Fiji

Michelle Weir stays on a car-free private island where the noise of the ocean and people laughing are the only sounds to be heard.

Where's Don Draper? Holiday snaps from the 60s

Long before Airbnb and Couchsurfing, there were motels. Glorious motels with citrus-coloured bed sheets ...

Room check: Rainbow Beach Ultimate Camping, Queensland

Andrew Louis checks out a campground where you can have the tenting experience without having to pitch and pack away the tent.

Borderless slumber: The hotel that straddles two countries

Once you're inside this cross-border hotel, you can walk from one country to the other in seconds.

A Transylvanian fairytale

It's got hints of Hobbiton, but this whimsical hotel's a long way from Matamata.

Is this NZ's most expensive hotel?

The operator of a new low-rise development joined to a historic hotel predicts it will command New Zealand's most expensive new hotel room rate at $10,000 a night.

Room check: QT, Bondi Beach

Ben Taylor checks in at a cool New South Wales classic.

Independent travellers off to the regions

Regional New Zealand gives travellers an "authentic" experience.