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What’s it like staying in the highest rooms in the world, atop the 480-metre The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong? Well, actually the top floor of the 18-storey beauty is wellness and eatertainment, so choose a 17th floor Club room. Splurge on The Ritz-Carlton Suite, #1720, which comes with dining for 10, a square jacuzzi tub that could fit four in comfort.…

If it’s details that make up quality, Atlantis The Royal Dubai is on the winning podium. As the world knows, the opening was postponed several times. We wanted…

Sometimes, it’s good to turn to tried-and-tested. As if a much-loved record, it’s play it again Sam, and again and again – at The Beaumont, in London’s…

It’s so easy, once again, to fly to Dubai. After seeing what’s new there, The Museum of The Future and things like that, treat yourself to the lasting memory of Zighy Bay, two hours’ drive away.

To see the future, head for Four Seasons Dubai IFC, smack in the middle of Dubai International Finance Centre, the main business hub of this essential world…

Having a London townhouse sounds rather posh, but it’s a lot of hard work – cleaning all the stairs from one floor to another and so on. Owning such a home is…

The Rivera is now taking front stage on the post-pandemic theatre floor. This catapults Monte-Carlo’s hot new dining venue, La Môme, right into the limelight.

Since some flights from Sydney, in particular, arrive in Hong Kong the next day around breakfast time, or even before, thank goodness for The Peninsula’s…

Head for France in the Caribbean in the form of the island of Saint Barthélemy, invariably shortened to St Barts, or St Barth in French (for the record, it’s…

It’s reckoned about 8,000 Australians play croquet these days. Partly thanks to the 30-year old Australian Croquet Association ACA, which launched its new ACA Academy in 2020, is more and more becoming an all-ages sport. Many youngsters, indeed, will be practising hard for the Under-21 Golf Croquet World Championship, scheduled for 8-12 February…