Mary Gostelow

Rosewood Bangkok, which opened its doors on March 31 2019, has added yet another top property to the city’s already well-endowed luxury hotel scene. But no one seems to be worried and apparently the owners, led by sisters Paetongtarn and Pintongta Shinawatra, and Rosewood’s leaders, as well as on-site management, believe that differentiation will…

Singapore’s largest hotel, the 2,561-key Marina Bay Sands, has over 130 different robotic processes, including napkin-folding and automatic floor cleaning. The…

This is the classic London ‘town and country’ hotel that has just re-opened from a long repose and I wanted to see the Sleeping Beauty newly wakened,…

The RuMa Hotel & Residences (‘house’), in Kuala Lumpur, is Urban Resorts’ first hotel outside China. It came about because Malaysian developer, Datuk Lai Siew Wah, stayed at Urban Resorts’ The PuLi in Shanghai and, like so many who visit the resort, he loved it; he wanted a luxury hotel just like it. RuMa is a celebration of Malaysia past and…

Well, I knew I was in for a treat at Saffire Freycinet, but I did not realise it was 'wow' from the moment of arrival. Although it can only properly be seen…

It was a joy to return to the sensual beauty of Marrakech after what seemed like far too long. I arrived by Porsche to La Mamounia: the luxury hotel only…

The Ritz-Carlton Abama, on the largest of Spain's Canary Islands, Tenerife, is honestly the most unusual of that brand that this gal has ever seen. After a 90-minute drive diagonally from north-east to south-west of Tenerife, I entered the top of what is a massive green bed quilt – 400 acres in all - flung over an undulating slope that goes down to…

Since I was last at one of Portugal's top and best-run hotels, Hotel Corinthia Lisboa, a new chef has taken over at the exciting Erva, 'herbs', restaurant,…

Fly into London and immediately feel at home in a hotel styled like an 'English town house'. Belmond Cadogan, London, opened at the end of February 2019. It…

Carolina Perez is well known to the luxury travel trade. She started São Paulo's Travel Week, which she sold on to ILTM parent Reed. New baby, DUCO, looks like being even more successful. For one thing it is, unlike most other hospitality events, destination focussed. The second annual DUCO, April 1-5, 2019, and once again in Florence, saw 265…