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Mar 3, 2017, 3:43 am
#1051
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: We love to Fly, Hotels and Discovery
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Want to try literally something new and very expensive?
Grand Velas Los Cabos Debuts $25,000 Taco at Frida Restaurant
Please see:
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...ida-restaurant
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^
Grand Velas Los Cabos Debuts $25,000 Taco at Frida Restaurant
The world’s most expensive taco debuts at the new Grand Velas Los Cabos for $25,000.
Available at the resort’s Frida restaurant, the culinary masterpiece uses premium ingredients such as langoustine, Kobe beef, Almas Beluga caviar, and black truffle brie cheese. An exotic salsa made of dried Morita chili peppers, Ley.925 ultra-premium añejo tequila, and civet coffee tops the taco. To top it off, or rather, holding all of these ingredients is a gold flake-infused corn tortilla.
Available at the resort’s Frida restaurant, the culinary masterpiece uses premium ingredients such as langoustine, Kobe beef, Almas Beluga caviar, and black truffle brie cheese. An exotic salsa made of dried Morita chili peppers, Ley.925 ultra-premium añejo tequila, and civet coffee tops the taco. To top it off, or rather, holding all of these ingredients is a gold flake-infused corn tortilla.
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...ida-restaurant
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^
Mar 3, 2017, 3:53 am
#1052
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: We love to Fly, Hotels and Discovery
Posts: 1,471
Hotels in the news incl. new openings:
Baglioni Resort Maldives to Debut in October 2017
Please see:
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...t-october-2017
Now Open in Turkey: Fairmont Quasar Istanbul
Please see:
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...uasar-istanbul
Small Luxury Hotels Adds New Hotels to Collection
Please see:
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...-to-collection
Announcing the New Soori Hotel Brand by Architect Soo Khian Chan
Please see:
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...soo-khian-chan
Address Boulevard opens in Downtown Dubai
Please see:
http://www.hoteliermiddleeast.com/29...owntown-dubai/
Vancouver's Rosewood Hotel Georgia sold for $145 million
Please see:
http://www.hotelmanagement.net/trans...or-145-million
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^
Baglioni Resort Maldives to Debut in October 2017
One to keep on your radar for 2017: Baglioni Hotels is set to make a splash with its very first beach resort. And the official website says it all: “Paradise with Italian grace.”
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...t-october-2017
Now Open in Turkey: Fairmont Quasar Istanbul
Fairmont has opened a luxury hotel inside two 41-story towers high above the Bosphorus in Istanbul. Situated in the Mecidiyeköy business district, near Gayrettepe and Levent, the Fairmont Quasar Istanbul has 209 guest rooms and 40 Fairmont Gold rooms along with 64 branded residences.
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...uasar-istanbul
Small Luxury Hotels Adds New Hotels to Collection
Following the release of its 2017 Travel Trends, Small Luxury Hotels of the World has announced the addition of eight new hotels to its collection. Several of the trends for this year are “smaller is bigger,” “experiences of a lifetime,” and “love of local.”
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...-to-collection
Announcing the New Soori Hotel Brand by Architect Soo Khian Chan
Award-winning architect Soo K. Chan—the founder of Singapore-based SCDA Architects—has launched a new lifestyle hospitality brand called Soori. Its flagship is the architect’s beachfront resort Soori Bali, which recently joined Leading Hotels of the World and is currently undergoing a light renovation.
http://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/h...soo-khian-chan
Address Boulevard opens in Downtown Dubai
Address Hotels and Resorts has unveiled its new city lifestyle property – the Address Boulevard.
The Address Boulevard has 196 rooms including 116 spacious deluxe rooms, 44 deluxe club rooms, 28 one-bedroom suites, seven two-bedroom suites and a presidential suite offering views of The Dubai Fountain and Burj Khalifa.
The Address Boulevard has 196 rooms including 116 spacious deluxe rooms, 44 deluxe club rooms, 28 one-bedroom suites, seven two-bedroom suites and a presidential suite offering views of The Dubai Fountain and Burj Khalifa.
http://www.hoteliermiddleeast.com/29...owntown-dubai/
Vancouver's Rosewood Hotel Georgia sold for $145 million
Delta Land Development is selling the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver to a Hong Kong-based joint venture for $145 million.
Able Shine and Magnificent Hotel Investments are reportedly the investors behind the group buying the hotel.
“Rosewood [Hotels and Resorts] will remain the management company,” Brad Simmons, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing, told Business Vancouver. “From our perspective it is business as usual. It’s just basically an acquisition change.”
Able Shine and Magnificent Hotel Investments are reportedly the investors behind the group buying the hotel.
“Rosewood [Hotels and Resorts] will remain the management company,” Brad Simmons, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing, told Business Vancouver. “From our perspective it is business as usual. It’s just basically an acquisition change.”
http://www.hotelmanagement.net/trans...or-145-million
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^
Mar 24, 2017, 6:00 am
#1055
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: We love to Fly, Hotels and Discovery
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Six Senses to take over management of Canyon Ranch Kaplankaya, Bodrum
Please see:
http://www.cpp-luxury.com/six-senses...ankaya-bodrum/
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^
The Canyon Ranch Kaplankaya opened in July 2016 on the Turkish Riviera near Bodrum, and includes 141 bedrooms and a 107,000sq ft (9,941sqm) spa, fitness and Health & Healing Centre.
It has been open less than a year, but Canyon Ranch’s first location outside of the US will soon change hands, with Six Senses taking over management of the property in May 2017.
It has been open less than a year, but Canyon Ranch’s first location outside of the US will soon change hands, with Six Senses taking over management of the property in May 2017.
http://www.cpp-luxury.com/six-senses...ankaya-bodrum/
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^
Mar 29, 2017, 5:52 pm
#1056
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posts: 3,222
Today I ventured outside the Luxury Hotels and Travel sanctuary. Whoa. There's not much info here on the Grand Wailea on Maui so I resorted (forgive me) to the requisite thread in the Hilton Honors forum. Unpleasant response due in large part to my engaging in a thread not attuned to my concerns. Nevertheless, it was disconcerting and discouraging. Trying not to feel like an idiot.
Mar 29, 2017, 10:01 pm
#1058
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Southern California, USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador and LTT, UA Plat/LT Gold, AA Gold
Posts: 8,764
Today I ventured outside the Luxury Hotels and Travel sanctuary. Whoa. There's not much info here on the Grand Wailea on Maui so I resorted (forgive me) to the requisite thread in the Hilton Honors forum. Unpleasant response due in large part to my engaging in a thread not attuned to my concerns. Nevertheless, it was disconcerting and discouraging. Trying not to feel like an idiot.
Mar 29, 2017, 10:33 pm
#1059
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2009
Location: FRA / YEG
Programs: AC Super Elite, Radisson Platinum, Accor Platinum
Posts: 11,874
Today I ventured outside the Luxury Hotels and Travel sanctuary. Whoa. There's not much info here on the Grand Wailea on Maui so I resorted (forgive me) to the requisite thread in the Hilton Honors forum. Unpleasant response due in large part to my engaging in a thread not attuned to my concerns. Nevertheless, it was disconcerting and discouraging. Trying not to feel like an idiot.
The various FT forums do have a very different atmosphere / tone and attract a very different crowd; some are definitely friendlier than others.
I had the "pleasure" of being the sole moderator of the AC forum for a short time, and while I won't get into the details, I spent more time on mod duties in 1 day than I spend on the Fairmont forum in an entire year. So yes, the FTer experience various greatly across forums - but don't necessarily assume it's you.
Mar 29, 2017, 10:39 pm
#1060
Moderator: Delta SkyMiles, Luxury Hotels, TravelBuzz! and Italy
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 26,544
I adore the Luxury Hotels Forum, for the very reasons that bhrubin states. One of the main reasons is the "reasonable degree of decorum."
Mar 29, 2017, 11:15 pm
#1061
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posts: 3,222
It was an interesting experience I shan't be repeating ever.
It's not only the lack of a modicum of civility, rather as well the paucity of sophisticated travel savvy and the notion that one might proffer money for superior service sans regard for award points, miles, whatever. I'll shut up now. Hah hah.
It's not only the lack of a modicum of civility, rather as well the paucity of sophisticated travel savvy and the notion that one might proffer money for superior service sans regard for award points, miles, whatever. I'll shut up now. Hah hah.
Last edited by RichardInSF; Apr 5, 2017 at 4:13 pm Reason: merged
Apr 3, 2017, 12:50 am
#1062
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: OSL
Posts: 2,145
Thanks for the warning! I had to read the thread and totally understand. I think it is a bit like trying to explain (some) friends about why we prefer to stay at luxury hotels. They always end up trying to find out what we have to pay and start telling about the alternative things we could do for that kind of money and how much we could save without (in their view) any sacrifises by staying in a 4 star resort "next door".
Apr 3, 2017, 8:46 am
#1064
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Germany
Programs: Some
Posts: 11,523
I have my "arrogant" answers if it´s going too far.... Often also an Argument: "Do you think you are better than the others!" Especially if I tell them I´m not ready to fly in the mass keeping stable
Apr 4, 2017, 10:41 pm
#1065
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posts: 3,222
I'm still digesting this other-forum experience. Although I'm a longtime FT member, I've been most active (interested) here and mostly long ago contributor to a few airline threads. And, was absent many years when overwhelmed by life, it happens.
The truth is, I've never been much interested in the miles/points race and now that I can afford to, abjure all of that. I'm fine to pay my way. Don't mind upgrades, amenities, courtesies and more but want the very best for what I book and willing to pay for it. Fortunate to be able to do so and will revel in that fortune until the cows come home.
The truth is, I've never been much interested in the miles/points race and now that I can afford to, abjure all of that. I'm fine to pay my way. Don't mind upgrades, amenities, courtesies and more but want the very best for what I book and willing to pay for it. Fortunate to be able to do so and will revel in that fortune until the cows come home.