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20/06/2026 .
A table just for two within splashing distance of the Indian Ocean, now that’s what I call a romantic dinner spot. It is, it must be said, the perfect end to a perfect day; after all, how can you argue with two miles of deserted beach, swaying palms and ice cold drinks just a few paces away if you can summon up the energy. Yes folks, the AVANI Seychelles Barbarons Resort and Spa is open for business.
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To mark its 150th anniversary, The Langham London Hotel has unveiled to TripReporter the first phase of its renovations. The Langham London new Regent Wing precedes the new Langham Club Lounge and The Sterling Suite projects which are due to open later this spring and offers guests a new experience in what was formerly their club floor rooms.
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Well this was a first; a whiskey cocktail with real smoke pouring out of it. You can call it theatre, but I called it genius. It was a little number entitled “as good as it gets” the signature cocktail at Pier Chic, the celebrated seafood restaurant at Madinat Jumeirah set at the end of a pier jutting out into the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Just us, the moonlight and The Burj for company. It was romantic for sure, but wait a minute, this was Dubai.
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Andy Mossack reviews the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel in the middle of a Siberian snowstorm
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It seems The Lakeside Hotel can cure all ills. Just lately I’ve noticed myself growing a little grumpy about hotels. Twenty years on the road as a travel writer have turned the old excitement of walking into a new and different foyer and sleeping in cool clean sheets into a grouchy wariness.
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Anyone who’s seen Wes Anderson’s multi-Oscar-winning Grand Budapest Hotel will recognise a few strangely familiar features of the real Budapest’s most famous five-star establishment. The film may have been set in non-specific Transylvanian countryside, but Anderson took as his inspiration this establishment in Hungary’s capital..After paying a recce visit to what is now the Corinthia Hotel Budapest, Anderson recreated on set the rococo E-shaped facade, the tiered staircases and Moroccan-style arcaded spa. Not to mention the plethora of concierges attending the needs of guests and fantastical cakes baked on the premises.
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