Yet another luxury travel blog
North Island, Seychelles Room type: Beachfront Villa Duration: 17 > 20th March, 2020 You may think there are more important things to discuss than whether the rebranded North Island is the Second Coming or a reincarnated Jeffrey Dahmer. You’re unlikely to step foot on it anytime soon, regardless of whether […]
The Maldives, along with Paris, is the most competitive luxury hotel market on earth. Sure, you can go look at AMEX FHR or Virtuoso and see 427 hotels for either New York or London, but most of them are so crap that Mary would have still chosen the stable floor. […]
Soneva Jani, Maldives Room type: 1 Bedroom Water Retreat With Slide Duration: 13th > 16th December, 2019 Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Award; GQ Travel Award; Robb Report Best of the Best; National Geographic Traveller Family Favourite; The Good The Bad and The Luxurious’ HRDSDFFCP. For the uninformed, that’s Hotel that […]
Ever since Cool Runnings single handedly reshaped Western values, won the hearts and minds of the known universe and won every award going, including, but not limited to an Olivier Award, Turner Prize and Pigasus Award, I have wanted to go to the Caribbean. Yet much to my shock, around the […]
Laucala, Fiji Room type: Plantation Villa Duration: 29th August > 3rd September, 2018 As we arrived to Laucala for the second time, I have never wanted to hate a hotel so much. I had 12,000 reasons to hate it. Having booked non-flexible return flights with Fiji Airways, I was stuck […]
Kokomo Private Island, Fiji Room type: Beachfront Villa Duration: 26th > 29th August, 2018 If stays were judged on the welcome, Kokomo Private Island would be perfect. Having just been in La La Land, it felt apt that we then immediately out thought – rather than outfought – Hurricane Lane […]
Velaa Private Island, Maldives Room type: Beach Pool House Duration: 23rd > 27th June, 2018 Disclaimer: My fiancé is Czech; Velaa is owned by a Czech billionaire; the GM is Czech. There was some wide-scale patriotic bias being whispered in my ear. Cheval Blanc Randheli (CBR) and Velaa have become […]
Cheval Blanc Randheli, Maldives Room type: Garden Water Villa / Island Villa Duration: 19th > 23rd June, 2018 Booked with: Dorsia Travel If the weather was a judgement of our stay, it would have been dark and dreary, with sporadic hints of happiness quickly dashed by the frequent knowledge of what […]
The Brando, French Polynesia Room type: 1 bedroom villa Duration: 28th March > 1st April, 2018 Booked with: Dorsia Travel Opening in July 2014, it’s taken me 4 years to take The Brando seriously enough to even think about visiting. This is down to 2 reasons: the fact that it’s a 26 […]
North Island, Seychelles Room type: Presidential Villa Duration: 5th > 8th February, 2018 Booked with: Dorsia Travel In case you never read it, first of all: lucky you; secondly, my 2016 review can be found over here. So, alas, after being undecided last time regarding whether to return to North Island, I […]
