You're Invited to Holiday Summer Club Collection
You’re officially invited to Holiday Summer Club☀️🦢. This edition of our Holiday collection is our ode to nostalgic summer holidays and the rituals that make them so easy to romanticize years later: family vacations marked by overpacked suitcases and a lobby full of anticipation, cars tracing miles of coastline, rows of floppy hats claiming striped pool chairs, and those obligatory last-night dinners that somehow become a very late check-out. Summer is the season of bell carts at arrival, SPF on the counter, and another reason to be outside with your favorite people.
Longer evenings, warmer weather, and everyone’s renewed willingness to leave the house make gathering feel less like logistics and more like spontaneity. If you’re anything like us, by March you’ve already drafted a detailed itinerary and sent it out to friends and family: a girls’ trip in June, a destination wedding in July, the inevitable birthday dinners, a weekend booked simply because the calendar allows it, and “pool party” written in just about every open slot. Consider this your summer guidebook for celebrating well, traveling beautifully, and making the most of every invitation on the calendar.
Inside, you’ll find resorts for group getaways on cinematic rail routes, girls’ trip favorites, rooftop restaurants pouring collegiate cocktails and serving caviar in lunchboxes, destiantion-weddings in the French Riviera, terraces built for dinners at sunset, and hotels with enough momentum to host an entire weekend. Gather your luggage tags and ring up your crew. These are the venues, scenes, and summer plans that deserve a place on your calendar.
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words.” — Henry James
And for good reason: summer was built for shared tables, overbooked weekends, damp hair at dinner, and the friend who says “one more stop” at midnight. It is the season of checked-in hotels, borrowed towels, and plans that improve by the hour. In the summer, even the hotel lobby feels more flirtatious and chlorine and gossip remain undefeated. It's the season to say "yes" to plans and "no" to doing them alone.
- Pastels and Palm Fronds: The Ultimate Summer Group Dining Guide to Miami’s Chicest Restaurants and What to Order
- The Group Trip Upgrade? Travel by Train or Boat Like It’s the Golden Age
- The Mallorcan Hotel That Feels Like a Stylish Friend’s Hideaway, + It’s Perfect for Wedding Weekends & Group Trips
- Host the Event of the Year in Sicily: Glamping, Olive Tree Vows and a Pool Straight Out of an Italian Film
- The Wedding Weekend Trend: Châteaux, Champagne Towers, & the Chicest Venues in France That Unfold Like a Glamorous Vacation
- Martinis, Mokes and Mid-Century Modern: 16 Hotels for the Ultimate Vintage Girls’ Summer Vacation
- This Classic Italian Wedding Venue Comes with Olive Groves, Terrazza Parties, and Gelato Stops
- This Is How You Do a Summer Vacation with Friends on the Big Island: Shipwreck Bars, Private Pools, & Swimmable Lagoons
- A New NYC Rooftop Restaurant Perfect for Parties: Country Club-Meets-Childhood-Nostalgia w/ Caviar & Capri Sun-Filled Lunchboxes
- Endless Summer: 40+ Glamorous Pool Party Venues From Montauk to Ibiza
- For the Friend Group Who Wants Their Nantucket Summer Vacation to Come With Beach Reads, Bikes & Homemade Ice Cream
Miami in summer still knows how to keep a party in motion.We mapped the city’s best in-between addresses for poolside afternoons, dressed-up dinners, and cocktails that justify staying out. Consider this your cheat sheet for birthdays, girls’ trips, and beautifully planned irresponsibility.
Part artist hideaway, part finca fantasy, part extremely good excuse to gather your people in Mallorca, Hotel Corazón is the sort of place that improves the group dynamic on arrival. The setting does plenty of the hosting for you: mountain views, farm dinners, a secluded pool, and rooms that feel cast rather than assigned. Read on if your standards for wedding weekends include both soul and scenery.
🌞 Read the Magazine: Step into Holiday: VR Summer Club for sun-soaked editorials, nostalgic travel stories, resort roundups, girls’ trip ideas, cocktail guides, and warm-weather plans worth circling on the calendar. Meet us in the magazine →
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Inspiration you can read. Places you can book.
For couples planning something grander than a single evening, France remains in a category of its own. There are palace hotels, lavender estates, Riviera icons, and private residences where your guests can stay, celebrate, and never once check the time. Read this before you book somewhere merely nice.
Somewhere between a Slim Aarons photograph and your most organized friend’s fantasy itinerary, this lineup of hotels makes a very convincing case for going away together. Expect analog pleasures, handsome pools, restorative afternoons, and enough cocktail-hour personality to carry the evening without much assistance. Frankly, the group chat has stalled long enough.
A wedding in Italy should come with atmosphere built in. This one offers a medieval borgo, panoramic terraces, estate tastings, and the freedom for guests to settle in rather than rush through it. Save yourself the search and start here.
Some places ask you to switch off. This one makes it easy. With lagoon swims, generous suites, sunset drinks, and enough beauty to improve the group dynamic instantly, Kona Village is a persuasive case for taking the friends trip seriously this year.
Not every summer plan requires a flight confirmation. Sometimes it looks like striped umbrellas, skyline views, lunchboxes with caviar, and a table full of friends who said yes immediately. Golden Child is proof that holiday energy can exist fifteen floors above Park Avenue.
If the pool tends to become your group’s unofficial headquarters, begin here. This is a global directory of places where the loungers fill early, the bar keeps strong hours, and the best stories usually start just after someone says, “one quick dip.” Summer plans, solved beautifully.
Some hotels give you a room. This one gives you a whole summer plotline. Between the captain’s-house energy, bunk-ready suites, bikes, beach chairs, and a restaurant that makes group dinner easy, Faraway is built for the kind of Nantucket trip people start trying to recreate every year after.
The Shelborne, by Proper made our featured venue because it captures the version of Miami Beach people still romanticize: Deco glamour, a restored 1950s pool and landmark diving board, palms shifting in the salt air, bicycles waiting out front, and the particular gift of spending an entire day moving between beach chairs, cabanas, coffee, cocktails, and dinner without once breaking the spell. After a $100 million reinvention, it still knows exactly what made Collins Avenue iconic in the first place, while giving it a fresher rhythm through tropical-modern rooms, vinyl nights, jazz, family sunset hour, and that polished old-Miami feeling of dressing for dinner because the hotel makes it feel worthwhile.
For group travel and summer hosting, it does the logistical work for you. The oceanfront setting comes with 251 rooms and suites, a private beach, a fully serviced pool deck, bikes, wellness classes, and a layered food-and-drink lineup that actually gives a group options, from seafood and Latin-Caribbean flavors at Pauline to quieter late-night cocktails at Little Torch, plus poolside bites and frozen drinks under the palms. It is the kind of place where a birthday weekend, wedding crowd, or friends’ escape can settle in, spread out, and keep the whole agenda on property, which is exactly what a standout summer host should do.
Eau Palm Beach earns its place in this collection as a modern heir to the grand resort era, where travel was built around pleasure, ritual, and being fully where you are. On seven private oceanfront acres in Manalapan, the mood is classic Palm Beach in the best sense: palm-lined courts, striped daybeds, sea-view balconies, a chilled Vesper before sunset, and interiors that glow with coastal glamour. This is the kind of trip that asks more of you than a room key—bring a paperback, learn everyone’s coffee order, disappear for three hours at Eau Spa, then celebrate at Nobu. Eau balances social energy and genuine ease, which is exactly why groups return to places like this year after year.
Why It Works for Group Getaways
- 309 rooms and suites, including larger layouts with living areas, terraces, and pool villas for shared stays with breathing room.
- Two oceanfront pools: one lively family pool, one quieter adults-focused retreat, so different travel styles can happily coexist.
- Strong built-in agenda: tennis, fitness classes, paddleboarding, snorkeling, beach days, bikes, kids’ and teen clubs, live music.
- Excellent on-site dining range means less coordinating off-property plans, from Nobu to steakhouse dinners to casual poolside lunches.
- Palm Beach location gives easy access to Worth Avenue, golf, boating, and classic Florida day trips.
Why It Works for Weddings & Celebrations
- 30,000 square feet of event space with oceanfront lawns, ballrooms, terraces, and poolside settings.
- Ceremony-to-after-party flow is seamless: beach views outside, elegant reception rooms inside, bars and lounges for the next chapter.
- Spa and salon offerings make pre-event prep feel like part of the celebration, not another errand.
- Resort-scale guest experience keeps everyone entertained before and after the main event.
- The overall tone is refined but joyful, which is exactly what a memorable celebration should feel like.
Our Holiday: VR Summer Club collection gets back to the simple way we travel together: flexible schedules that start poolside and end at a swanky hotel bar, monogrammed bag tags, bell carts, and your favorite people closeby. It is our ode to the golden age of leisure, when vacations came with personality, dinner meant drinks and apps on a terrace, and the pool was as important as the plan. Across these stories, we followed one idea all season long: the best trips are not just where you go, but how it feels while you’re there.
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