Mary Gostelow

Is there a ‘best hotel in the world’? It all depends on what a traveller wants at a particular time, coupled with circumstances that include weather, other people and untoward happenings. There are individuals and anonymous groups that announce best properties, all too often, one fears, with vested interest.

Since flights from Asia-Pacific tend to arrive in Los Angeles around breakfast time – at destination, that is – get in good shape as quickly as possible.…

French Polynesia is the world’s friendliest nation, says US publication Condé Nast Traveler, and it shows at every level - if you run into the islands’…

Windstar President Chris Prelog has just completed the most whirlwind week in a career at sea that started 25 years ago.

Stay in the epitome of island luxury and absorb serious Galapagos-level conservation thrown in, for free. This is at The Brando, on 77-hectare Onetahi private…

Manhattan West is an area of Manhattan that even many New Yorkers have yet to discover, and it shows the very best that the US can offer. A total eight-acre…

Hark back to the past in Hong Kong. Yes, it is coming back to life again. The Marco Polo German Bierfest may have been cancelled but Rugby Sevens is still scheduled for 4-6 November. And as restrictions are being removed there are many financial gatherings planned as frustrated global CEOs can now, after over two years, meet their Asia counterparts…

Connecting through travel has never been more vital, said CEO Lindsey Ueberroth at the Preferred Hotels and Resorts’ regional meeting at The Londoner, 20-21…

New York’s most iconic club, The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, maintains its top-ranking status thanks to an Aussie. Managing Director Marlene Poynder hails from…

Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River epitomises cultural lifestyle. What was originally going to be a walkway from the main building down to the river, all of a six-metre total drop, has been turned into a 400 sqm white infinity Art Space.