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You may not know Turtle Island by name, but you have surely seen it: this Yasawa Islands oasis hosted the Blue Lagoon films. Today its exclusive lodge, owned by Richard Evanson, ranks among the world's finest.
Berlin's Propeller Island City Lodge may be the most insane hotel in the world, its flying beds and upside-down rooms conjured by artist Lars Stroschen. From there to Bologna's Torre Prendiparte, these European boltholes confound.
Maya Khoury checks into Necker Island, Sir Richard Branson's thirty-hectare private retreat in the British Virgin Islands, where a staff of thirty-one pampers twenty-eight guests amid turquoise waters, coral reefs and beaches, for fifty-three thousand dollars a night.
Our roundup of luxury news, led by the sale of the landmark Carlton Hotel on the Croisette in Cannes to Lebanese businessman Toufic Aboukhater, part of a 450-million-euro deal involving seven InterContinental properties from Morgan Stanley.
Mention Beirut to any international traveller and two iconic, luxurious and pioneering hotels immediately come to mind. And while Le Vendôme and the Phoenicia have many things in common, they’re just as unlike each other. No question, they are an ideal pair.
This may be the sort of thing that one wouldn't and shouldn't, reveal, but let’s say we look at the subject from an entirely hypothetical point of view. And in this day and age we don’t even pretend to assume that the extramarital affair is a subject of curiosity that only pertains to the
Now part of the Raffles chain, Le Royal Monceau owes its rebirth to the legendary Philippe Starck. Sara White Wilson discovers how the designer has infused this Parisian icon with culture and dazzling artistic ingenuity.
The Phoenicia Hotel was a dream for Najib Salha – a prominent Lebanese businessman – who in the year 1953, during Lebanon’s Golden Era, envisioned to build a world class hotel on the shores of Beirut. With a group of investors, Mr. Salha founded “La Société des Grands Hotels du Liban” and
Marrakech, Morocco’s second-largest city plays host to a hotel that should be on every Bespoke reader’s must-visit list for 2011 - the Royal Mansour. Built according to royal edict, the mandate was that it be the most lavish hotel in all Morocco and the flagship in HRH King Mohammed VI’s e
Banyan Tree is a busy company. After starting with just a single boutique resort in Thailand’s Phuket back in 1994, it has grown into a global multi-business operator with over 20 resorts and hotels. Its first Middle Eastern offering was the Al Areen in Bahrain close to the Formula One cir
A 300-year-old house in the Jewish quarter of Damascus plays host to the wonderful boutique hotel, Talisman Al Ameen, the flagship of the Talisman chain. Well, to be perfectly honest it’s not much of chain, Talisman will soon encompass three hotels: Al Ameen, which opened in 2006, Bab Al S
For a man of shapes and spaces and decisive lines, Galal Mahmoud is surprisingly fond of the flat, boundless sea. “You see, there is that magic of the sea,” says the architect behind the award winning O Beach resort in Jordan. “It brings well being to any human.”