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Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills is a 164-room hotel that stresses indigenous, which includes elevator cabin walls decorated with Tai fish made of white washi paper, as a sign of “celebration” in the Japanese tradition. We soared up to the 51st floor lobby-reception and changed elevators, down to the 50th floor to find room #5028, identified by four…

As soon as it opened in October 2015, the 317-room Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, owned by Mirae, became a magnet for wealthy Koreans. My 72-square-metre corner…

I wanted to see what makes the 4,750-room Wynn Las Vegas work from a luxury point of view; the arrival boded well. RVP Ramesh Sadhwani, a skilled GM who had…

The Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof's Mercedes glides around Willy Brandt Platz and I gaze up at the six-floor building's Ehrenhof terrace and stone gargoyles. At Bethmannstrasse, the door is opened by an ambassador type in a full morning suit and top hat. I tread around a gold floor plaque marked 1876, the hotel's birth year, and ascend eight…

Ten years ago, The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pudong, opened on 21 June 2010 at precisely 11.08am. It is still an Art Deco jewel, on the upper floors of the César…

There is no norm in the Maldives. However, arguably the most abnormal is Soneva Jani, which opened October 2016. As the speedboat arrives, I begin to see a…

The Manila Hotel, designed in 1912 by William Parsons, may be the ‘Grande Dame’ of the capital of the Philippines. But when it comes to global brands, The Peninsula Manila tops the luxury list. The hotel opened in 1976 for an IMF/World Bank Conference – architects were WATG , working with designer Dale Keller. Today, it is easy to see why guests…

Where 377 Greenwich Street (the address of The Greenwich, a member of Leading Hotels of the World) should have been appeared to be a corner restaurant, so I…

Want to visit not only one of the largest ranches in the USA but one that is the pride and joy of conservationist and CNN conceptor, Ted Turner? Vermejo Park…

I was amazed that the idea of combining retail with lodging is 110 years old. In 1910 the management of Le Bon Marché department store, which had been founded by Aristide and Marguerite Boucicaut in 1852, decided to open a hotel for their most favoured customers, but instead of calling it Le Bon Marché they named it Lutetia, the original Roman name…