Now that ultra-plush bathrobes, high-thread-count linens and designer toiletries are de rigueur at upscale hotels, top properties are offering innovative and extravagant perks to ensure a distinctive experience.
Talk about a strange New Year's resolution.
Scott Santy has always had a love affair with flip-flops, despite growing up in Wisconsin where the window for this type of footwear is narrow.
Nothing says BFF like getting inked with your girlfriend.
Plus, Hudgens tells PEOPLE she's single, despite rumors to the contrary
Marci Zimmerman was sitting in the stands at a baseball game one blazing hot afternoon in 2003 when she saw something that made an indelible impression on her.
The actor puts his ink on display while vacationing with Jennifer Aniston in Hawaii
Michael Lee Howard, like many HIV-positive men, lives with a biohazard tattoo. He explains the significance of his "ink."
As he puts a straw in his fruit smoothie, Michael Lee Howard accidentally knocks over the cup, spilling the seaweed-colored liquid. "Well, it happens," he says. As he collects the smoothie overflow in the plastic lid, he exposes the tattoos on his wrists: a biohazard symbol on the right and a radiation symbol on the left.
The newly-single star and the TV host argue over Von D bailing from her interview
Try for a moment to remove whatever school-colored glasses you might own and consider the following questions:
As I stood in the checkout line waiting for the customer in front of me to finish paying for her groceries, I took a moment to glance over the ubiquitous magazines and tabloids that adorn every aisle. The cover of OK! was emblazoned with the headline: "More 'Teen Mom' babies! Who's pregnant with triplets! Who's hoping another baby will save the relationship! PLUS: Amber and Gary reunite!" Pushed to the margin was a picture of Britney Spears.
I have been sick for two weeks and my doctor said I have jaundice from mono. I got my belly button pierced on spring break in Mexico and I'm worried. Could my jaundice be from hepatitis C or HIV instead?
The actors had a "very pleasant" chat about cameo originally offered to Gibson
Politics may go more than skin deep in Turkey, where an increasing number of people are choosing to permanently ink allegiances into their flesh.
She and Sandra Bullock's ex are linked by more than just tattoos
Plus: Coldplay's Chris Martin "hangs ten" and more star sightings
Getting that tattoo seemed like a good idea at the time. But now that blast from the past on your back or tribal band around your arm may seem like a bit of body art you could live without.
We are often asked to declare our identity for documents, applications, bank loans and even social networking sites. But how much of our identity is lost when we select "female," "African-American" or "Muslim?"
CNN's Kyung Lah on why Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo is creating buzz off the slopes.
Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo is the talk of Japan. Not for his athletic ability -- but for his appearance.
The soccer star got some special ink to mark 10 years of marriage to Victoria Beckham
The mop-haired winner of Survivor: Africa is being treated for a rare form of Hodgkin's disease
In a matter of weeks, teenage girls, just 17 years old, will be able to get their hands on the "morning after pill" without ever talking to a doctor and without their parents ever knowing or being a part of this major decision.
The R&B singer's rep says Natalie Mejia is not Brown's new girlfriend
Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes.
The singer adds to her tats with a Hollywood house call from her favorite artist, BangBang
Sometimes, a T-shirt just doesn't cut it.
He denies cheating on Hilton – plus offers details on his upcoming albums and Beverly Hills tattoo parlor
The Gym Class Heroes frontman pays tribute to music idols
At Sara Champion's previous job as a project engineer for one of the country's top construction firms, visible tattoos for professional staff were against company policy.
"We're holding up as best as can be," said the newsman's son about his family
'Idol' Chatter
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CNN Radio's Michelle Wright talks about who rocked and who didn't on last night's 'American Idol.'
A Texas woman says TSA agents made her remove her nipple piercing with pliers to board a flight.
"Tattoo" singerJordin Sparks is determined to get a tattoo of her own – and she wants it to be the name of her brother P.J., whom she misses terribly now that she travels so much.
CNN's Rusty Dornin talks with a Georgia Sheriff who came up with a creative way to combat gang activity in his town.
Walking into the Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor is a lot like walking into a head shop. One wall is lined with gang monikers and symbols, the other with bongs for smoking marijuana and other drugs -- one even shaped like a skull.
Have you ever shaken someone's hand and in the same instant, felt every bone in your fingers and palm shatter? Or, even worse, felt like you were shaking the fin on a dead fish?
Erasing a tattoo can be painful and expensive. CNN's Judy Fortin reports in this Health Minute.
Laura Hathaway initially had no regrets after getting a tattoo on her lower back when she was 21. But now, 10 years later, she wants it gone.
Like a Vegas wedding, getting a tattoo can be a regrettable experience. While about one out of four Americans now has a tattoo (up from one out of six in 2003), 17 percent will seek to have it remo...
In an age of heated competition for guests, posh hotels often offer more than just a nice place for pampered travelers to lay down their weary bones.
With more and more young people sporting tattoos and other forms of body art, companies are forced to be more accepting when considering potential job candidates, an employment firm said Tuesday.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert Friday warning of possible disfigurements from injecting permanent ink as eyeliner, lip liner or eyebrow coloring.
Check out the hot summer look for teens this year: scandalously short miniskirts, tiny shorts, sheer shirts and tank-tops.
When Todd Matchett went to prison for second-degree murder in 1986, a fellow inmate threaded a guitar string through a Bic pen, attached it to a cassette Walkman motor, and tattooed the grim reaper on Matchett's left shoulder.
Ya'stuvo is slang for "I've Had It." That's the name of the clinic, but a lot of people just call it Homeboy Laser Tattoo Removal Clinic. We work on gang members who are trying to leave that life a...
I realize that Dr. Robert Atkins died, but I keep hearing about his diet. What's up?
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