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It’s a rare experience for hotel guests to be upstaged by a hotel’s designers but with The Reverie Saigon it almost seems justified to do so. How can a simple guest possibly compete with twenty of Italy’s most revered interior designers given carte blanche (or should that be carta bianca) to create a landscape of such mind boggling opulence it is almost impossible to comprehend. Yet here it is before my very eyes.
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Gili Trawangan is what passes for ‘busy’ on the remote cluster of islands off Lombok, Indonesia – but Ko-Ko-Mo offers an instant escape from the horses, carts and bikes of the main drag (no cars in this little slice of heaven).
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Hilton’s luxury brand the Waldorf Astoria, has opened a second property in the UAE on Dubai’s famous Palm.
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Walk into Jaipur’s Rambagh Palace and you immediately feel like an extra in a costume drama about the last days of the Raj. Turbanned bearers are everywhere, sentries on horseback stand to attention for a maharajah long departed and posh people take tea on the lawn, blissfully removed from the bustle of the Pink City and its bazaars.
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As lifts go, this one creaked and groaned as it made its way upwards, but considering this was Turkey’s first ever lift and Kemal Ataturk, President Tito, Jackie Kennedy, King Edward VIII and Agatha Christie have all been former passengers here at the Pera Palace, you can forgive such ailments.
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If you think dragons are a good judge of hotels, then think about this: Hong Kong has nine of them living up in the mountains and all of them visit the Intercontinental hotel Hong Kong every day.
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