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Yes, we loved The White Lotus, and really all films and television shows that take you somewhere and help to inspire travel. Did you know about these J.MAK partners with film and Hollywood connections...?

BEST SET DESIGN: POSEIDONION GRAND HOTEL

Poseidonion Grand Hotel on Greece's Spetses island recently appeared in the 2022 film The Glass Onion with Daniel Craig and Edward Norton. Some scenes were shot in the hotel and the exterior is visible in the scene when the group board a boat headed for the billionaire's private island.

Spetses was also the setting of the 2021 psychological drama The Lost Daughter directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Academy Award-winning Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson.

BEST STUNT: IMAGO ARTIS TRAVEL

Fulvio de Bonis, one of the founders of our Italy DMC, Imago Artis Travel, often has the pleasure of guiding film stars around the country. But last year he was a part of the action leading actor Tom Holland on a Vespa tour around Rome to promote Holland's upcoming film, Uncharted, with Mark Wahlberg. Here is de Bonis (right) with Holland (left) captured by the Italian paparazzi. Fulvio, time to get an agent!

BEST LOCATION:

MAZZARO SEA PALACE

The White Lotus may have been shot at a different hotel (which used to be J.MAK!), but Taormina, Sicily's Mazzaro Sea Palace was likely in the distance of the show's boating scenes. It enjoys a wide swath of beach on Mazzaro Bay, pictured above (just above the rows of white beach chairs) and serves as a great launch spot for chartered boats to explore the sea. The 5-star Mazzaro and sister hotel Atlantis Bay (just one cove over) are two of the four hotels on the sea in Taormina. Tanya would approve.

BEST RE-RELEASE:
HOTEL MONT BLANC

Megève, France made an appearance in the opening scene of the 1963 film Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Around the same time, Megève's Hotel Mont Blanc appeared in the French film Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and since then its lobby bar has been a French-celebrity hangout. The hotel recently reimagined its restaurant, which used to carry the name of the film, with Alpine-inspired fare and is now called Relais Mont Blanc.

BEST SUPPORTING OWNER: POST LECH

When Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the 3rd movie in the Bridget Jones's Diary franchise, was filming in Lech, Austria in 2004, Post Lech owner Florian Moosbruger played host to its star, Renée Zellweger (above right). In the film, Bridget Jones takes to the slopes of the Arlberg ski area, and, you guessed it, chaos ensues.

BEST CLASSIC: INGLESIDE INN

The Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, and particularly its Melvyn's Restaurant, have been celebrity hotspots since they opened in 1975. That's original owner, Mel Haber with Jerry Lewis at the opening party, about which Hollywood Reporter wrote:

“The night we opened, we turned away Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw,” recalls Melvyn’s Restaurant & Lounge maitre d’ Brian Ellis, who was hired by the late Melvyn Haber in 1975 to help run what quickly would become one of Old Hollywood’s most beloved Palm Springs getaways. “They were on a motorcycle, they weren’t dressed right, and Mel said, ‘Can you come back another night?'” And they did. Because everyone came back.

J.MAK SUPPORTS FILM!

If you're near upstate New York, join J.MAK at this great film series sponsored by J.MAK HOSPITALITY. See you at the movies!

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