Twinkling lights, Christmas trees, and candy canes – it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas (and New Year) and we are here for it. While we still are in the midst of a global pandemic, you can still spend some time with your loved ones, and have a fun and safe vacation. The… Continue reading Struggling To Find A Fun, And Safe NYE Plan? Check These Staycation Options
Sixty-year-old Radha Arora, president of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts—a locus for luxury in 15 countries, ranging from The Bahamas to Beijing—started his career at the impressionable age of 17 as a busboy at Paris’s iconic Hôtel de Crillon. Son of a foreign diplomat, Arora travelled often, stayed in spectacular hotels and met fascinating people along… Continue reading Rosewood’s leading man Radha Arora is guided by his search for soulful journeys
Hotel Café Royal, part of the European hotel group The Leading Hotels of the World, was London’s finest restaurant and bar. It quickly became the epicentre of London’s fashionable set in the 19th century; its lounge and bar were frequented by celebrities like Liz Taylor, Mick Jagger and writers like Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. … Continue reading History gets a modern makeover at the newly-renovated Hotel Café Royal
If anyone tells you that their idea of paradise doesn’t involve a few days cocooned in five-star comfort fringed by a lagoon teeming with colourful reefs and vibrant marine life, they’re lying. A 30-minute speedboat ride from Malé’s Velana International Airport brings me to Anantara Veli Maldives Resort, an all-villa property whose 67 bungalows either… Continue reading Head to the Anantara Veli Resort in the Maldives to disconnect and lose yourself in five-star luxury
Birdsong Moira is a 200-year-old villa in a Goan heritage village nestled amid jackfruit, chikoo and sangwan trees. A beautiful Portuguese home of pillared verandahs and soaring roofs, singing gardens and lavish pools, which is retrofitted with just enough modernism to allow that familiar cushion of comfort as you sink into an older world. Wake… Continue reading Goa’s loveliest new hotel, Birdsong Moira
Seeing Aurora Borealis with your own eyes is about as close to witnessing magic as you’ll come to in this life. Mother Nature’s CGI occurs when electrically charged particles from the sun collide with each other on entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Since the Northern Lights are visible over the North and South Pole, you’re most… Continue reading Why you need to see the Northern Lights once before you die
Sabine Heller CEO, Asmallworld.com“Beldi Country Club in Marrakech. It is a beautiful, ecofriendly sanctuary amidst olive groves and acres of rose and hibiscus gardens. The airy rooms are filled with handmade rugs and pottery for sale.”Beldicountryclub.com Cecilia Morelli Parikh Owner, Le Mill“Monaci Delle Terre Nere at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily. This monastery-turned-hotel… Continue reading Great Escapes
