She said that they were trying to make the space feel like "an urban retreat."

She was a colleague from the Writers' Room, an urban retreat in Greenwich Village, traveling with her husband.

But the East Village real-estate market at the time was flat, and in the interim, the vacant land was gradually converted into a pair of manicured urban retreats.

Follow them, and you'll eventually come to Sint-Anna beach - an urban retreat where locals go to munch on mussels from the beachside stalls.

These peaceful urban retreats provide an intriguing introduction to the Twin Cities' history, plants and wildlife.

Spa InterContinental is a stylish urban retreat with result-led skincare and grooming services for men and women designed around any schedule.

Newly spruced up, bright, airy and modern, this hotel by the river offers the perfect urban retreat.

The LX Boutique hotel in Lisbon is newly spruced up, bright, airy and modern; a hotel by the river that offers the perfect urban retreat.

The complex functions like an "urban retreat" where one can walk around in wide-opened villages.

But even as Hood River itself shifts from windsurfers' paradise to sophisticated urban retreat, a growing number of second-home buyers and retirees are moving to the quieter Washington side.