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Luxury Travel in Your Face

Luxury Travel in Your Face | The Early Air Way

Unique Vacations Ltd, representatives of Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple resorts, is taking a new approach beyond fancy brochures. The Sandals Luxury Travel Store will be a street shops providing Londoners with an interactive Caribbean experience within the store.

Now promotional videos and social feeds will be tempting guests to extend their stay somewhere a little warmer, and tropical. The location will be leading guests through the booking process, and providing information on alternatives and featured programs.

The Sandals Luxury Travel Store is a bit of the Caribbean in London, that will make you want to escape the second you set foot inside.

 

Click here for the full article on CaribJournal.

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Destinations

African Luxury Safari Lodges

Africa has the best wildlife viewings of the big 5 in the world. Part of the wonderful experience is the lodge after the viewings. Here is a list of the 10 most beautiful African safari lodges:

10. &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge: Located on the lip of an ancient volcanic caldera, the views here are outstanding. The huge rooms boast wonderful designs too.

9. Little Kulala: This is a lodge complex of 11 climate-controlled personal “Kulalas,” each with itsown plunge pool. The private areas meld into the communal areas beautifully, and the whole complex melds into the surrounding wilderness.

8. Singita Lebombo Lodge: This lodge percehs on the cliffs above the N’wanetsi River. The loft-style suits overlook a richly diverse habitat, and are designed in imaginitive ways from wood and steel, and have organic interiors.

 

Click here for the full list on Luxury Travel Expert.

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Destinations

Japanese Chefs Flourish in Paris

A new generation of Japanese chefs have shown the world their mastery of the French cuisine. So much so that they now run some of the largest and most successful French restaurants in Paris.

These chefs range in techniques and styles from modern to traditional, and exemplify these categories as far as to become textbook entries. Even the way they run their locations have variety, but most tend towards young, loud, and fun, yet discerning.

 

Click here for the full article on New York Times.

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Travel Tips

Travel Startups Easing Travel Fears

Terror attacks, natural disasters, and finances are scarring the travel industry.

These startups seek to calm travelers’ fears during turbulent times and help them make smarter decisions about protecting their trip plans.

Here is a list of some new tools to help you solidify the safe travel option for you and your family.

 

Click here for the article from Skift.

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Travel Tips

Get the Best Deals at a Luxury Hotel

Luxury hotels are a dream for many, but you can make that dream a reality for less than expected with some careful care to planning your trip.

  • Luxury hotels sell out months in advance of booking dates, so don’t expect a last-minute deal.
  • Travel during the shoulder seasons for your destination, but avoid the worst weather seasons for that local.
  • Aggregator websites can find the lowest room rates. They verify prices from various different sources and compare them.
  • Member-only websites negotiate for heavy discounts but on very temporary time periods.
  • Check the price of your bookings on aggregator sites with those from the official hotel site, you may even get an even better rate if you submit a Best Rate Guarantee claim.
  • Keep an eye out for errors in room rates on various forums.
  • Some hotel bookings can be packaged with upgrades, or other perks through a travel advisor.

 

Click here to read the full article on Luxury Travel Expert.

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Destinations

Historic Cusco Hotels

Hotels in Cusco, Peru embrace their history tightly. furniture from the period, original stonework, and paintings from years gone by wrap the place in antiquity. Many of the hotels have this charm, but a few take it to the next level of luxury.

Aranwa Cusco Boutique Hotel

Built in 1560, the original construction is decorated with colonial-era art works, imaculate detail in the fountain and in the furniture.

Inkaterra La Casona

This hotel is a restored 16th century colonial manor house. It incorporates large candelabras, Andean textiles, and massive doors for an impressive air. Interior designers were employed to recreate the opulence of past owners like Spanish conquistadors and Latin American liberators.

 

Click here for the full article on Luxury Travel Blog.

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Aircraft

Private Jet of a Disney Imagineer

Skyacht One is the 83 million dollar private jet designed by Eddie Sotto, a former experiential designer from Disney. The jet has been personalized to a level of luxury that would shock a Saudi prince.

The base model is an Embraer Lineage 1000E business jet, but has been stylized into a nautical and navigation theme. It has a handmade bronze clock intricately influenced by the Ducal Palace’s furniture, British campaign-style furnishings, and bejeweled and engraved controls of brass, gold, platinum, and silver. Wood accents litter the interior, intelligent lighting mimics the time of day, and a captain’s quarter master bedroom richly decorated.

 

Click here to read the full article on BBC.

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Industry & News

Luxury Travel News

Travel is always upgrading and innovating as an industry. Here are the biggest new happenings in luxury travel.

  • Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai adds a new deck with pools, restaurant, and bar with ocean access.
  • The largest villa in the INdian Ocean was opened by Soneva Fushi.
  • The Four Seasons has opened a property entirely themed in the world of Casablanca.
  • Shangri-La Doha has opened its doors for guests to enjoy luxury hotel accommodations.

 

Click here for the full article on Luxury Travel Expert.

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Destinations

Travels Inspired by Oscar Winners

Oscar nominated films are selected for many wondrous aspects, but the setting of their stories is not one of them. To celebrate the Oscars in a different way, here are some of the best destinations to travel around to reminisce in your own fame.

  • Copenhagen from “The Danish Girl”: The waterfront district of Nyhavn has great little townhouses lining the waterways. Some scenes in the movie glimpse iconic structures with great history to delve into.
  • Brooklyn Coney Island/Wexford from “Brooklyn”: Iconic beaches are shown in this movie with two different atmospheres, a packed beach where  people battle it out for space and the more remote pristine beaches in Ireland. The soft dunes of Ireland’s beaches are nearby St. Aidan’s cathedral.
  • The Juvet Landscape Hotel in Norway from “Ex Machina”: In the movie, the hotel stands in as a secluded hideout, but in reality the Juvet is set in a natural preserve with gorges and waterfalls surrounding it. Available nearby are minimalist Norwegian log houses or historical buildings to reconnect with olden times.

 

Click here for the full article on Los Angeles Times.

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Jet Charter Tools: Information is an Advantage for Travelers

Safety is key for everyone, but travelers are especially keen to the goings on not just where they live, but also where they are going. With news popping up everyday of some new danger, information is your Excalibur against the dangers in the world.

David Ropeik is a risk consultant and writes on the difference between risk and fright.

In the battle between your gut and your brain, your gut will win. One way to make sensible choices as a traveler is to nudge your gut toward rationality by feeding it accurate information.

Some points brought up to assuage the gut reactions we all face include;

  • Check road safety conditions in he country you are traveling.
  • Update yourself on the recommendations by the CDC for your destination.
  • Take statistics with a grain of salt, numbers are often misreported.
  • Weigh the risks of traveling against those of staying home, sometimes a different danger is riskier.
  • Take precautions to prevent the danger during any travel.

 

Click here for the full article from New York Times.

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