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.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: This is the first, and one would imagine last, time my opening gambit for a hotel review will be the loo.
LOCATION: Sitting between the Duomo and the Ponte Vecchio, Florence’s Piazza della Repubblica is the city’s epicentre.
LOCATION: This lavish new resort property, opened in June 2011, is set in 40 highly landscaped acres just two miles from the Marrakech medina.
ROUTE: Heathrow to Muscat, OmanFIRST IMPRESSIONS: Let’s cut to the chase.
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.
LOCATION: There are a number of unusual things about Oman’s Musandam Peninsula.
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.
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.