Gansevoort Turks and CaicosFishing is the new farm stay.
It’s not enough to go meet your osso buco. Sustainable seafood requires you to spend a week with your fish, too. At Jakes in Jamaica, guests head out with the fisherman Dennis Abrahams (right) to catch kingfish, Spanish mackerel and wahoo for supper back at the hotel. Gansevoort Turks and Caicos sends you deep-sea fishing, then cooks your catch to order. And at the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, the chef is a scuba master who leads divers on a hunt for Caribbean spiny lobster, then barbecues them beachside.
Libertador Hotels Resorts & SpasHotel planes are the new hotel cars.
Now that Bentleys at the bellhop stand are de rigueur, hotels are starting to fly their own fleets, too. Marrakesh’s Palais Namaskar has a Falcon-900 that gets guests directly to the hotel from Dubai, Moscow or New York. Travaasa Hana on Maui will fly you in on its six-seat Airbus from Kahului and, soon, Honolulu ($200 round trip). And in Peru, Libertador hotels keeps a 10-passenger jet to take guests between the Westin Lima and Hotel Paracas (starwoodhotels.com), a 45-minute flight down the Pacific coast.
Erin KunkelBodysurfing is the new stand-up paddleboarding.
Bodysurfing is having a resurgence, thanks to the surfer Keith Malloy’s cinematic homage, “Come Hell or High Water.” According to the San Francisco surfboard shaper Danny Hess — whose wooden hand planes give bodysurfers better lift — the movie’s made the sport cool, maybe for the first time ever. “Every time it screens, I see 20 more people bodysurfing the next day,” he says. His bodysurfing spots: the Wedge in Newport Beach, Calif., and Sandy Beach on Oahu.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: May 8, 2012
A Hawaiian airport was misspelled in an earlier version of this post. It is Kahului, not Kahalui.
