Mary Gostelow

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.

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.

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 one of four Leeward Islands that, together with Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint Martin, form the French West Indies).

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…

Israel’s Negev Desert might not be as big as the 348,750 sq km Great Victoria Desert but even at a mere 13,000 sq km it deserves to be taken seriously – as does…

Israel has everything the modern-fit Australian, and Asian traveller, wants. The lure of the eastern Mediterranean and millennia of local history. For immediate immersion, take the train from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Jerusalem (the speediest, at 26 minutes, leaves the airport at 56 minutes past the hour and should cost under A$8).