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I don’t care what anyone says. City hotels like the Sheraton Stockholm, that are primarily geared towards the business traveller will get my vote every time. Alongside the Nordic efficiency one gets, if you can overlook the eye-watering cost of…
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Faced with the choice of flying straight back to London, or breaking up the long journey with an overnight stay, we opted to do the more leisurely latter. While the business class experience on Finnair had been perfectly adequate, I’m never one…
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When it comes to an island nation like Indonesia, it’s easy to forget just how expansive its territories are, stretching from Malaysia in the west, all the way to Papua New Guinea. Most luxury travellers will understandably head straight for the…
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I’m generally a fan of the not so well known YTL hotel chain, as my encounters with their characterful properties have always been excellent. The other Mr. Highlife and I regularly reminisce about our stay at The Surin Phuket last Christmas, longing for the right opportunity…
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For the more selective traveller, one of the advantages of a branded hotel is knowing you’ll be getting a certain level of quality and standard – both in terms of the hard product, but also from a service standpoint. When visiting…
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Myanmar was a complete unknown entity as I began planning this trip. Simply getting in and around the country meant doing more flight segments than I normally would like to endure, but I suppose that was also part of the intrigue. And no…
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I’ve wanted to visit Formentera for as long as I can remember. Mesmerised by images of iconic Playa Illetas and travel editorial descriptions of a laid-back Bohemian lifestyle and sleepy seaside villages, I envisioned a way of life harking back to the…
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I had a mad longing to return to Phu Quoc – such an undiscovered gem of an island, a mere hour’s flight from Ho Chi Minh City in the Gulf of Thailand. While the Easter break provided the perfect opportunity for a return…
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Very rarely do I have a habit of playing favourites with hotels. It usually takes something really special for me to want to repeat a stay, as life’s too short to ignore all the terrific luxury properties out there by re-visiting the same…
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The very first time I visited the Yucatan was in the 90’s – I was a student on a measly budget, but nevertheless took a bite out of the luxury resort apple, spending a week in a 5-star hotel in…
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Is there anything more exciting than visiting a new country for the first time? Vietnam has long been a staple of the Highlife travel hotlist, often inexplicably getting bumped down in favour of other more familiar destinations. With an end-of-year holiday in Japan…
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