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Lee Tulloch

Lee Tulloch

Travel columnist

Lee is a best-selling novelist, columnist, editor and writer. Her distinguished career stretches back more than three decades, and includes 12 years based between New York and Paris. Lee specialises in sustainable and thoughtful travel.Connect via email.

It is in its public areas that Madame Reve really shines.

Not every hotel has a grand history, so some are just making one up

The Ritz and Raffles might be historic and storied, but what about a new hotel? How does it quickly get a personality?

  • Lee Tulloch
Feel-good fish treatment or fraught with dangers?

If you’re tempted to put your feet in a fish spa, read this first

Have you ever been tempted to have one of those fish pedicures that are offered in backstreet spas in many Asian cities? Don’t be.

  • Lee Tulloch
There’s an art to falling asleep within the cramped chaos of a packed plane.

I’m a light sleeper. Here’s how I manage to sleep on a plane

I’m often seated next to passengers who have brought nothing with them, relying on the airlines to provide essentials. Don’t.

  • Lee Tulloch
The spot for sunlovers.

On board giant shipping line’s first foray into luxury cruising

Explora I feels like a spacious motor yacht rather than a ship, especially as the luxury is intimate rather than grand.

  • Lee Tulloch
Belmond

If I had a bucket list, this would be at the top of it

The Paris to Istanbul route must be the most famous railway journey in the world. It’s something of a miracle that it exists at all.

  • Lee Tulloch
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Macakizi… dive in.

The celebrity-favourite luxury resort you’ve probably never heard of

Over the years the guest list has included powerbrokers, pop stars and princesses – from Kate Moss to Bill Gates to the late Princess Margaret.

  • Lee Tulloch
traxx-saffire Saffire Tasmania Images supplied for Traveller, January 2022 Saffire Freycinet experiences Beekeeping experience

The buzziest thing to do in Tassie

Beekeeping is not just a way to reap sweet rewards, it also opens a new world to rival that of Game of Thrones.

  • Lee Tulloch
Australian passports have sophisticated security features, but once you have provided its details to a third party, you’ve lost control of that data.

I tried to save a few dollars on my new passport. What was I thinking?

I hate my passport photo. It looks like a grim mug shot, taken in a line-up after I’d been arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge.

  • Lee Tulloch
The new Okura Hotel lobby in Tokyo is the coolest in the world.

The coolest hotel lobby, in the coolest city, in the world

This hotel is worth a detour when you’re in Tokyo, even if you’re not staying there.

  • Lee Tulloch
You can still end up in a middle seat in Qantas’ premium economy cabin.

I was upgraded to premium economy. I wish I’d stayed in cattle class

Anything is better than economy class on a long haul, right? Wrong.

  • Lee Tulloch

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