Oceans away
The newest style of accommodation in the Maldives is a series of private villas perched above the ocean.
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Pure waste of money
YOUR Departure Lounge is rather fond of the Emmy-nominated television series Flight of the Conchords, starring Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie as the hapless members of New Zealand’s “fourth most popular folk-comedy duo” as they try to make it big in New York.
Scents and sensibility
A TINY salon-style setting at the rear of a shop in ever-so-posh Mayfair is the venue for London’s most fragrant place to take tea.
The royal treatment
THE plane from Johannesburg to our safari destination has been delayed and our one night at Royal Legend Safari Lodge&Spa in South Africa’s Greater Kruger national park seems horribly short.
The river house
THE perfect holiday hideaway is in the Balinese village of Cepaka.
Mandarin makeover
THE Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, is one of the best places in Asia to be pampered.
Rest easy in London
THE line-up reads like a blue-ribbon Monopoly board: Knightsbridge, Covent Garden, Haymarket, Soho, Bloomsbury and South Kensington.
Into the Karoo
THE Great Karoo is mysterious and dramatic, ancient beyond reckoning.
Between the sheets
LEST anyone think a bed’s a mere bed in the world of hospitality, there’s what amounts to mattress wars afoot in five-star hotel land.
Heirs and graces of a sumptuous Auckland retreat
IT is a few weeks before Christmas and Gloria Poupard-Walbridge has been decking the halls of Cotter House with much more than plain old holly.
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