Yet another luxury travel blog
7132, Switzerland Room type: Suite Duration: 5 > 8th August, 2020 There’s a chapter in Malcom Gladwell’s Blink – that even after all these years – I still vividly remember. It described how some fine chap could pick up microscopic expressions in people’s faces and truly see what they were thinking. […]
The Dolder Grand, Zurich Room type: Suite Superior Duration: 14th > 17th May, 2017 Booked with: Ourisman Travel I had such high hopes for The Dolder Grand. A 4 year renovation and enlargement project ending in 2008 with a state-of-the-art spa that became known as a Norman Foster masterpiece; a name I […]
Where: St. Stephan When: 24th August, 2017 Booked with: MigFlug Switzerland: the home of money laundering, beautiful scenery and Yves Rossy – the Jetman. As James Bond once said: a Mig is not enough. Almost immediately after my Russian trip, the need for speed took hold and started to strangle me […]
Villa Honegg, Honegg Room type: Master Suite Duration: 21st > 23rd August, 2017 Booked with: BESVISOR Villa Honegg is the rarest of 5 star properties – one that mastered the use of social media to go viral. I remember when going viral meant you had a disease soon to be named after […]
Park Hotel Vitznau, Vitznau Room type: Suite Lake Duration: 17th > 19th May, 2017 Booked with: Ourisman Travel Remember that one time I went to Ballyfin, completely unaware of its magnificence, and then wrote about how amazing it was, only for everyone who ever read this blog to book it immediately? Say “aye” if […]
Beau-Rivage Palace, Lausanne Room type: Junior Suite iuration: 12th > 14th May, 2017 Once upon a time there was a hotel called The Connaught. In its illustrious history, it has had less GMs than I’ve had Valentine’s cards from Beyonce, but who’s counting? So it should come as no surprise than upon […]
