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LUXURY TRAVEL NEWS, REVIEWS AND ADVICE

Trisara Phuket – Exclusive Special Offer Renewed until December 2025
April 11, 2024 0
For all stays until December 20th 2025, The Luxury Traveller has negotiated an amazing set of benefits at Trisara Phuket, exclusively available to our clients.

AWESOME DEAL – Free Transfers and Half Board at the Waldorf Astoria Maldives!
April 10, 2024 0
One of the best deals in the Maldives has just been renewed for most of 2024. Free yacht transfers and half board (breakfast and dinner), with Hilton Impresario benefits added on top!
REVIEW – Swan Hellenic Antarctica Cruise
March 28, 2024 0
Belmond's Hiram Bingham is a beautifully restored and maintained train, which truly immersed us in the golden age of rail travel. There is no question that the overall experience is very luxurious and that it is the ideal way to circumvent some of the more onerous government regulation, that makes visiting the citadel of Machu Picchu so complicated.
Four Seasons Yacht now bookable!
March 26, 2024 0
Auberge Hotels is offering savings of 30% on select dates through to October 31, 2024. These Black Friday rates will be bookable until November 27th and are combinable with our usual Virtuoso benefits.

HOTEL BOOKING

Our clients benefit from the best available rates on hotels, in addition to added benefits on every stay. These added benefits come at no cost to you and are entirely financed by our hotel partners.

Our bookings are always made directly with hotels, via preferred channels. This means that you can still enjoy status benefits and points earning at any hotel that offers a loyalty program.

Breakfast

Hotel credit

Room upgrades

Flexible check in/out

Select one of the options below to begin your journey with us...

EMAIL BOOKING ENQUIRY

BOOKING PORTAL

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BELMOND TRAIN BOOKING

As a Belmond Bellini Club agency we are able to offer our clients the following benefits on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Andean Explorer, The Royal Scotsman and The Eastern and Oriental Express:

VIP welcome amenity

$100 onboard credit

(per person)

Cabin upgrades

If available on the day of departure

$500 gift voucher

Per cabin. For use on a future Belmond booking of $2,500+

For shorter day trips on the Belmond British Pullman and The Hiram Bingham we offer the below benefits:

VIP welcome amenity

$50 onboard credit

(per person)

BELMOND TRAIN BOOKING ENQUIRY

CRUISE BOOKING

Our clients benefit from the best available rates on cruises.

As a Virtuoso agency we offer a variety of different value added benefits which vary according to the cruise line and specific sailing.

Examples of possible benefits:

Complimentary speciality dining

Shipboard credit

Cabin upgrades

First to board

CRUISE BOOKING ENQUIRY

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FLIGHT REVIEWS

October 18, 2016

REVIEW – Cathay Pacific : Business Class – Hong Kong to Jakarta (A330 Longhaul config)

The Cirrus seat is great to have on a flight of this length. Save for a few exceptional routes, we can only dream of getting something this good in Europe. Cathay Business Class service is also prompt and efficient but totally unmemorable

October 18, 2016

REVIEW – Cathay Pacific : First Class – Tokyo Haneda to Hong Kong (B747)

Spectacular. So, so, so good. We had the entire nose of a 747 to ourselves, the food and drink is probably the best of any CX route and the service was perfect. Friendly, slightly mischievous and wonderfully paced. I honestly struggle to find fault with anything that took place here.

October 18, 2016

REVIEW – JAL : First Class – London to Tokyo Haneda (B77W)

It may seem that I was being harsh in my remarks on this flight but in the context of JL’s impressively high bar, this flight was slightly underwhelming...

HOTEL REVIEWS

August 19, 2020

GUIDE – Visiting Rome during COVID

Since becoming one of the worst hit countries at the very beginning of the COVID pandemic, Italy has seen a massive reversal in its fortunes. It is now one of the safest countries in all of Europe and has seen a steady influx of tourists, willing to adjust their behaviour in order to enjoy the piazzas, galleries and trattorias without the crowds. Rome was our first stop on this trip and as such it became the gauge by which we measured the rest of our time in the country.

August 19, 2020

REVIEW – Rome Cavalieri, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel [COVID-era]

It's been a long time since I visited ANY hotel that misses so many of the basics. Even 4* airport hotels which I spend a single night in will tick all but one (with feather pillows and separate shower and bath being the most 'at risk'). To visit a hotel that clearly regards itself so highly yet falls so short on even the basics is an unusual experience. Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme at the Rome Cavalieri hotel.

August 13, 2020

REVIEW – British Airways : Club Europe Business Class – A319 – London (LHR) to Rome (FCO) – [COVID-era]

The Club Europe hot meal was never particularly great but much like the Concorde Room, I miss it now it's gone. We can eat hot food in the lounge and at restaurants and all airline meals are individually wrapped anyway, so why aren't BA serving hot food?...