Mary Gostelow

I dream, like many, of returning to Sabi Sand Singita Ebony Lodge, situated on 18,000 hectares bordered by the Sabi and Sand rivers in northeastern South Africa. I remember from last time that it's 12 thatched villas are an Olympian feat of vertical support poles growing out of precipitously steep undergrowth, ingeniously evolving, as if…

"When it’s time to return to Europe, think about putting Amsterdam on the itinerary. You may well have done it before but there is always some new to blend with…

Want to learn Mongolian cooking or how to make a bow and arrow and then use them? Want to talk to Mongolian herders with a translator on the ground? Now, you…

I entered Six Senses Douro Valley at the top, on the eighth floor, and looked through picture windows at hillsides of terraced vineyards.

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 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 many years of experience with Four Seasons, was standing at the Towers entrance. We went through a small Chelsea Flower Show of floribunda and a marbled, single-floor lobby and then a private…

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…

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 string of topsy-turvy Heath Robinson structures, whitened wood two- or three-floor sculptures on poles sticking high up out of the water.