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Old Sep 20, 2017 | 3:54 am
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Pausanias
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The lack of internet and phone are no big deal for us - in fact, the opposite, not because I have to be connected all the time, I don't, but because sometimes it's nice to be completely out of touch with the world. Also, I HATE seeing people glued to their phones/tablets etc in such a stunning place.

I also never switch on a TV at a resort hotel and always liked Aman's policy of not having TVs in rooms. I never watch movies, not even if it's pouring with rain, and movies are my background. I do tend to read a lot of books and, back in the day, I used to write them as well.

The privacy issue isn't a big deal, either.

The price is a big deal. That Miavana pricing is obscene for all sorts of reasons.

I have just ploughed through Macmyday's 7000-word piece on this hotel. Heck, the review is twice as long as Boris Johnson's manifesto on life after the EU published a few days ago and causing a real rumpus - possibly more of a rumpus than a hotel review.

Now I think all of us here are grateful to Macmyday's input. But can I say this? His lengthy description of the problems of getting to Miavana, the cost of getting there and the very big hassle factor make me think that this child of the digital era is scared stiff of the world and has no adventurous spirit. I'm sure he wishes he could be teleported from home to suite or villa. The capital of Madagascar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a bracing mix of cultures and architecture. Macmyday doesn't care about this sort of thing, anymore than he cared about Fiji when he went to Laucala. Each to his own and I fully respect his attitude to the world he lives in. But he's missing a lot, I think. We might call it context. Or perspective. Or just Life.

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