Welcome to the new Grantourismo and a new year of travel and food. We’re kicking off 2019 with a fresh new design that is more user-friendly and much more mobile-friendly, with comprehensive new travel destination guides, and other features to better help you plan your travels. If you’ve dropped by Grantourismo since the New Year, … Read more
Best Doha hotels include Arabian style lodgings in an atmospheric souk, whimsical hotels by iconic brands, Mondrian and the the W, luxury hotels and resorts by St Regis, Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons, and local budget hotel, K108. Doha’s brand spanking new and seriously whimsical Mondrian Doha hotel, designed by Marcel Wanders, with glam restaurants … Read more
The brief history of boutique hotels is fascinating if you’re a boutique hotel obsessive as I am, beginning in London in 1978 with Anouska Hempel’s Blakes Hotel and taken to giddy heights in New York City by Studio 54’s Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell with the Paramount Hotel near Times Square. I have to confess … Read more
The best Perth boutique hotels range from the jaw-droppingly gorgeous QT Perth with its whimsical glamour to the luxurious minimalism of COMO The Treasury, along with a clutch of contemporary design driven hotels that are stylish, yet cosy and welcoming. I had to pinch myself while writing that intro, because it wasn’t all that long … Read more
Most beautiful Blue Mountains accommodation includes grand Art Deco hotels on clifftop escarpments overlooking vast valleys, remote eco-friendly lodges serving Australian cuisine from fresh local produce, and delightful garden cottages on sprawling forested estates. Encompassing a whopping 11,400 km² of native Australian bushland, rocky escarpments, dramatic rock formations, stupendous valleys, pockets of rainforest, spectacular caves, and … Read more