Last year I stayed for a few nights at the Manisanda Hotel in Bagan, Myanmar, having chosen the hotel solely on the strength of its roof terrace. According to online reviews, the view of the morning hot air balloon flight was supposed to be excellent from the terrace, and as …
I stayed in the Ned Kelly Hotel last year, on a trip with an American friend who’d made the booking mainly on the strength of the Ned Kelly having a roof terrace. And the unusual name. Turns out, she didn’t know who Ned Kelly was. Nor, I suspect, had she …
Pre-review disclosure: we knew of the owners of this delightful hotel, via some official, work stuff in Bangkok. Knew of them, as opposed to know them. We’d never met, never even spoken on the phone. All we knew is that they ran a hotel in Chiang Mai. So when we …
Revisiting the Andamans after many, many years, it was as though we were discovering the islands for the first time, so much had things changed. One of the lovely discoveries we made was the trendy Fullmoon Café on Havelock Island, which was not only the eatery for our little hotel, …
Borneo’s Sipadan is a mecca for scuba divers, and on both our visits there we have stayed at the lovely Mabul Water Bungalows. The first time we visited was in September 2009, for our son’s 21st birthday and we returned in August 2015 for my husband’s 60th. The very fact …
Disclosure time (& even my husband doesn’t know this). When looking online for a flat to rent for our stay in Rome earlier this month, I was looking for places which seemed well located for running. I’m a brand new, totally enthusiastic runner, and this “choosing a location so that I …
We have just returned from THE most fabulous trip to Venice (for an equally fabulous family wedding) and we stayed at the ALTANA ALBACHIARA. And loved it. There are, however, 2 things that have to be made clear at the outset. a) the view from the two rooftop terraces is absolutely …
I chose the Thazin Garden Hotel in Bagan, Myanmar for one reason and one reason only. They have their very own 13th century pagoda in the hotel garden (with a pink Buddha) and that, to me, is a pretty fine reason, trumping just about everything else you may require in a …
We have just returned from yet another delightful stay at the Himalayan Trout House, a cute lodge in Nagini village, run by Shefali & Christopher Mitra, who (in the interests of full disclosure) have now become friends, rather than simply lodge-owners. I am a little unsure how many times we have …
