WEBSITE OF THE DAY: LuxeCityGuides.com

Okay, here's the dealio: I didn't write this blurb (below) but I did check out the new guide and think it's quite handy and fun.

Luxe City Guides: A brassy, bright and irreverent breath of fresh air in the all-too-predictable guidebook market, LUXE City Guides are the definitive travel and style guides for the most enticing cities of Asia, Europe, Australia and now New York City, the first American guide. The ultra-smart, pocket-sized, accordion-folded travel companions are packed with priceless and highly selective information for demanding and discerning travelers. Eschewing the usual tourist spots for detailed digestions of favorite and little-known hotspots, LUXE City Guides are compiled by contributors who actually live there, and who know what sophisticated types want to experience. In other words, not just hotels, restaurants, clubs, bars and spas, but services, shops and city secrets that the tour-bus crowd will never find. Each LUXE City Guide is researched and collated by a resident city editor, then personally vetted with feet on the street by LUXE’s Publishing Editor to assure a consistently high standard of detail. Updated annually as well as online throughout the year, the current LUXE lineup ranges from Madrid to Melbourne, Seoul to Sri Lanka, New York to Paris and 16 more. Buy online at http://www.luxecityguides.com/ as well as select retailers worldwide.