December 5, 2017
Shangri La, Tokyo
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: This is the first, and one would imagine last, time my opening gambit for a hotel review will be the loo.
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December 5, 2017
Savoy Hotel, Florence
LOCATION: Sitting between the Duomo and the Ponte Vecchio, Florence’s Piazza della Repubblica is the city’s epicentre.
December 5, 2017
Four Seasons Resort Marrakech, Morocco
LOCATION: This lavish new resort property, opened in June 2011, is set in 40 highly landscaped acres just two miles from the Marrakech medina.
December 5, 2017
Oman Air Business Class
ROUTE: Heathrow to Muscat, OmanFIRST IMPRESSIONS: Let’s cut to the chase.
December 5, 2017
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class
After more than £100m of investment a new Upper Class seat will be unveiled in the next few weeks and then rolled out across the fleet over three years.
December 5, 2017
Six Senses Zighy Bay, Oman
LOCATION: There are a number of unusual things about Oman’s Musandam Peninsula.
December 5, 2017
Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah - Al Husn, Oman
LOCATION: Close enough – a 15 minutes drive – to the centre of Muscat to make exploring the Omani capital easy and convenient, the Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah is nevertheless very much a beach resort, not a city hotel.
December 5, 2017
Shangri-La, Chiang Mai, Thailand
LOCATION: Shangri-La is in downtown Chiang Mai’s commercial district on the Chang Klan Road, in the centre of the old city, just a 10-minute drive from the airport and a few skips, hop and a jump from the famous Night Bazaar.