Top 5 small, Boutique Hotels

SINGAPORE - Small can definitely be beautiful, with boutique hotel specialists and booking service Mr. & Mrs. Smith listing its five favorite properties around the world. (This list is not endorsed by Reuters.)

Casa Tua, Miami

There's no sign above the door of this intimate hideaway, and it's screened from the street by wrought-iron railings and lush vegetation, but everyone knows where Casa Tua is. It has won acclaim for its excellent Italian-fusion restaurant and draws Miami's in-crowd to its exclusive members-only lounge bar. In each of the five guest rooms, which have a separate entrance, heavy cream drapes, soft white Bellora linens, rich dark woods and carefully chosen art pieces suggest rigorous editing and impeccable taste. White marble gleams in the bathrooms, and little balconies jut jauntily out over the garden greenery.


Lone Star Restaurant & Hotel, Barbados, Caribbean

This one-time petrol station has much more to offer than finessed world cuisine and a celebrity cast list, however; its four impeccably appointed suites offer a brand of luxury Caribbean accommodation with a refreshingly personal touch and a quirky designer eye. This Barbados hotel sustains a smart palette of blue, white and mahogany throughout. There are playful touches, too: huge gilt silver mirrors lean against palm trees on the talc-white beach, waiters and waitresses flit around the restaurant — dubbed 'the Ivy of the Caribbean' by British restaurant critic Michael Winner — in mechanics overalls in a throwback to the hotel's garage roots.

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