I went storm chasing in Canada – but this Hawaii-style holiday offered so much more March 25, 2025 The irony is not lost on me that on the day I fly out to Canada’s Vancouver Island to chase some of the world’s gnarliest weather, the UK is being battered by its biggest storm in decades. Flights are being cancelled by the minute – airport boards lighting up red like Eighties arcade machines; travellers [...]
CitizenM breaks every Paris hotel rule – here’s why I love it March 22, 2025 CitizenM Gare de Lyon breaks every Paris hotel rule, but it's one of the most memorable stays in the city, writes Anna Moloney.
Aboriginal healing: mind-body-spirit therapy unlike anything else March 10, 2025 Aboriginal healing therapies use some of the oldest techniques in the world. Lisa Kjellsson ventured into the wilderness to look inwards I’m in a location on the travel wish list of landscape photographers the world over. The sandstone cliffs above Number 16 Beach, in Rye on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, overlook a rock formation that resembles a dragon’s [...]
Amsterdam city break: Where to stay and what to do March 7, 2025 Amsterdam is about to have its moment. This year marks the Dutch capital’s 750th birthday, with a year of celebratory events scheduled, while Eurostar has just restarted its fast direct London-Amsterdam service following the completion of a new terminal in Amsterdam, making it easier and quicker than ever to reach the Dutch capital. Where to [...]
The Ritz-Carlton puts the ‘grand’ in Grand Cayman February 24, 2025 People either come here to make money or they’re running away from something,” Dan told me in Grand Cayman’s Backroom cigar and cocktail bar. The somewhat jaded 40-something American finance bro whose surfer-esque brown hair could easily be slicked back, Patrick Bateman style, was facing a dilemma. He’d reached the eight year point at which [...]
The future of the Swiss Alps? A ski holiday in Andermatt February 19, 2025 In the social hierarchy of Swiss Alps ski resorts, Andermatt has long sat in the shadow of its counterparts, but thanks to a raft of foreign investment in recent years, the former garrison town’s star is on the ascendancy. For now, at least, the ski area of Andermatt-Sedrun is regarded as fairly snow sure, usually [...]
Holiday Inn owner IHG boosts dividend and buyback amid continued growth February 18, 2025 Holiday Inn owner IHG has announced the purchase of its 20th brand and a boost to shareholder returns as it benefits from the revived travel market. IHG has soared as travel has returned after the pandemic, with early estimates for 2024 suggesting the hotel industry has finally surpassed 2019’s revenue. The Windsor-headquartered company told markets [...]
‘The James Bond actor was a disaster on skis’: inside the private life of 007 in the Swiss Alps February 11, 2025 Whenever I go skiing, I hum the James Bond theme tune and imagine I’m being chased down the mountain by baddies. And it is for this reason I sought out a chalet fit for a Bond villain in the Swiss hamlet that Roger Moore called home. Crans-Montana has always been an elite destination for those [...]
7 incredible places for food and wine in South Africa January 30, 2025 A culinary cruise around South Africa, with our restaurant columnist Martin Williams As a restaurateur, January is the perfect time of year to take a holiday; exhausted from the efforts put in to maximise Christmas business. As an entrepreneur with M, and whilst leading Gaucho, it’s a period when, after setting objectives for the months [...]
A ski holiday in Val d’Isere is the hippest way to do the French Alps January 28, 2025 Val d’Isere has always felt hip, but a new design hotel is upping the stakes, finds Adam Bloodworth Think of a ski holiday in the Alps and a certain image springs to mind. That of impossible wealth, of royals and oligarchs resplendent in furs, of Hooray Henrys from the King’s Road necking jeroboams of rosé, [...]