Excellence Luxury Villas
We like the new custom superyacht from Royal Huisman, PURA. The clean futuristic lines are impressive, whether you pick a more classic look for the exterior cabin or the more high tech metal finish. You can also bespoke the interior completely to your tastes. The superyacht offers you a core package that you then customise ...
Sometimes you wonder why on earth a hotel chose its name. Or what they were inspired by. Or who thought of it in the first place. And this is exactly what I put to the manager of Parenthèse Concept Room – a gem of a secret hideaway in the divinely terracotta city of Toulouse. “Parenthèses ...
Surely there is nothing better than a very full 5* luxurious country house hotel break for a truly relaxing time. Bovey Castle now under the ownership of The award winning Eden Hotels Collection – the service has been transformed – it fills that luxury criterion with aplomb, add in a well-presented building and extensive estate, ...
Waking up covered completely with a fluffy, white duvet in a cosy, warm flat I groaned and pulled the cover over my face and tried to flick the alarm off with as little effort as possible. It was 7am and the phone case prevented stopping the alarm that penetrated my sleep and shot me into ...
This year Decorex celebrates 40 years of design collaborations, focusing both on the strength of its past and current relationships and importantly looking towards future partnerships. Boasting more than 400 of the most recognised and emerging exhibitors world-wide, including rising numbers of new participants, this esteemed event is the only one of its kind for the ...
Finding The One isn’t always fairy-tale straight-forward. It takes patience, searching (and soul-searching). It means experiencing the not-so-right, the you’ve-got-potential, the what-on-earth-was-I-thinking?! But they always say, ‘You know when it’s The One’. And I knew. I knew from the mountains whose beauty rendered me speechless (a rare occurrence) as we wound our way along the ...
Whilst the Shandrani Resort and Spa provides everything you need, Mauritius is a beautiful island so I would recommend tearing yourself away from the gorgeous beaches, pools, water sports and chocolate moose and taking in some of the sites. The hotel will prepare a wonderful little hamper for you so you can pause and picnic ...
“Why wouldst thou leave calm Hartwell’s green abode…Apician table and Horatian Ode?” Lord Byron referring to Louis XVIII’s departure from Hartwell House. Owned by the National Trust, Hartwell House is an exceptional opportunity to stay in a magnificent and eccentrically decorated English stately home in Buckinghamshire. Set in 90 acres of verdantly landscaped garden, just ...
1. Airbus A380 (Prince Alwaleed bin Talal) – $500-Million – This double-decker behemoth is said to feature a garage for two Rolls-Royces, a stable for horses and camels and a pen for hawks. At $500 million one can only imagine travelling in such luxury. 2. Airbus A318 Elite ACJ (Vijay Mallya) – $81-Million – ...
It was a bitterly cold morning in the southern Bulgarian ski town of Bansko and the instant coffee on the balcony had chilled at an alarming pace. In the distance the vague plumes of steam could be seen coming from the figure of a muscular brown horse pulling a cart. On top of the cart ...
Flaine is the Vivian Westwood of ski resorts; so it was away with the expected Alpine style which has become so hackneyed across the Alps that it can be suffocating. Flaine’s style is certainly challenging; conceived in the 1960s, in the era of ‘Brutalist’ architecture which has been so derided by the general public, but ...
Sitting on a small but perfectly positioned balcony at the Regina Palace Hotel, one of the best appointed residences in the small but not insignificant Italian town of Stresa, and you could be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time a good half century or so. Which is by no means a criticism. The ...