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Olivia Greenway, travel journalist and copywriter

Luxury hotels offering a little bit more

July 4, 2013
By olivia

Reid’s Palace Hotel, Madeira has an interesting selection of free soft drinks in the room fridge, replenished daily and free DVDs and novels to borrow

 

The Dorchester, London places a real Christmas tree in their bedrooms and suites during the festive season, decorated with tasteful green and red bows and baubles

 

Bahia Del Duque, Tenerife has its own observatory where you may gaze on the moon, Jupiter or Saturn

 

Bel Air, Los Angeles has a Swan Lake with its own swans

 

The Taj at Mansingh Road, Delhi has three world class restaurants in one hotel:  Varq, Wasabi and House of Ming

 

The Capri Palace Hotel, Capri serves the best Eggs Benedict in the world*

 

The Peninsula, Los Angeles allows 24-hour check out and check in.  Let them know you are arriving at 5am, and your room will be ready.  Similarly, if you have a late flight, your room will be yours until you leave the hotel for the airport.  (No extra charge for this service, on top of the room rate.)

 

Bernadus Lodge, Carmel Valley, CA has a gorgeous patio with mature honeysuckle shrubs and frequent hummingbird visitors

 

The Pera Palace, Istanbul has its Agatha Christie room, complete with her typewriter and is the room where the novelist wrote ‘Murder on the Orient Express’.

 

Meadowood, Napa Valley CA has two championship croquet lawns, a resident professional coach and all players have to wear white

 

The Sant’Andrea Hotel, Taormina, Sicily has its own large sandy beach directly under the expansive hotel terrace, with rock pools and lifeguard

 

*according to me

 

How do you differentiate one luxury hotel from another?  These hotels all had something special about them, causing me to remember them and wanting to return.  I’ll make another list soon.

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Trips 2018/2019

2019

January: Zanzibar

March: Cape Town & Pretoria

May: Slovenia

October: South Africa (tbc)

November: Kenya (tbc)

 

Trips 2018

March:  New York, including Frick Gallery

May:  Vietnam including Halong Bay

June:  Giverny and Monet’s garden

June:  Majorca

December: Hyderabad and Chandigarh, India

Trips 2017

January: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
February: Bangalore
April: Lake District
May: Malaga
September: Mexico, Cancun
November: Delhi, Agra, Shimla
December: Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Venice

Trips 2016 (not clickable)

January: Oxford, Tenerife
February: Hampshire
March: Manchester
April: Sicily, Germany
October: Bangalore, New Delhi
November: Bangalore, New Delhi
December: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

List of trips 2015 (not clickable)

January: European ski resorts; Milan
February: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
March: Istanbul, Jersey, Vienna, Prague, Budapest
April: Road trip Ireland
May: Road trip France, Germany, Benelux and Copenhagen
June: UK luxury hotels
December: Cannes

List of trips 2014 (not clickable)

January Weimar, Vienna
February - Berlin, London
April - Chicago, Toronto, Montreal
May/June - Driving trip, Spain
July – Majorca
July - Paris
August - Southern UK
September – Northern Italy including Venice
October - South of France
October/November - Germany, Austria and Switzerland
December - Cape Town, Durban, driving along Garden Route South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda

List of trips 2013 (not clickable)

  • January - Tenerife
  • March - Istanbul
  • April - Italy luxury hotels - mid and southern Italy including Sicily
  • June - Las Vegas
  • June - Massive west coast road trip - Vancouver, BC
  • June - Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Napa Valley, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Diego
  • September - Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia
  • September - Carolinas, Georgia, northern Florida (Talahassee area)
  • September - New Orleans, Orlando, Miami; Vancouver
  • October - Puglia, Italy and Milan

List of trips 2012

  • January - Hawaii, USA
  • February - France - Le Touquet, Lens, Lille
  • March - Nelamangala, India
  • July - Milan, Italy
  • August - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • August - Iguazu Falls, Brazil
  • August - Montevideo, Uruguay
  • September - Delhi, India
  • November - Dubai, UAE

List of trips 2011

  • January - Madeira, Portugal
  • February - Bangalore, India
  • April - British Virgin Islands, Caribbean
  • May - Sicily, Italy
  • May - San Francisco, USA
  • June - Bangalore and New Delhi, India
  • July - Prague, Czech Republic
  • July - Munich, Germany
  • July - Washington DC, USA
  • August - Lake District, UK
  • September - La Grande-Motte, France
  • Annapolis, USA
  • October - Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • December - Helsinki, Finland
  • December - St Petersburg, Russia

List of trips 2010

  • February - India - Kerala & Chennai
  • March - Manchester & the North West
  • March - Austria
  • April - Czech Republic
  • May - Lake District
  • June - Cologne
  • July - India - Bangalore and Delhi
  • August - Eastern Cape & KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • September - Grasse, south of France
  • September - Wick, Scotland
  • October - Utah, USA
  • December - Montreal, Canada
  • December - Madeira, Portugal
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