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Old Jan 24, 2019, 8:26 am
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Old Jan 24, 2019, 8:39 am
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Thanks, KatW. I'm taken with the pictures of The Lodge at Blue Sky in Utah, which will open in May 2019. It reminds me of the scenery around Amangiri. It's just an hour east of Salt Lake City. That makes it easily accessible. I hope someone stays and reports on it.
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Old Jan 24, 2019, 5:21 pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
Thanks, KatW. I'm taken with the pictures of The Lodge at Blue Sky in Utah, which will open in May 2019. It reminds me of the scenery around Amangiri. It's just an hour east of Salt Lake City. That makes it easily accessible. I hope someone stays and reports on it.
They have fishing there and we have relatives in Utah. Looks like we will visit, but not sure when!
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Old Jan 26, 2019, 1:50 pm
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Richard Branson's collection of luxury retreats:
https://www.virginlimitededition.com/en#
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Old Jan 26, 2019, 3:09 pm
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lodge and necker are rentals that sometimes book rooms (watch for last minute added dates)
son bunyola mallorca is 3 villa rentals, seems he is planning more for the land
africa - 2 relatively small hotels and 2 safari lodges
he sold some residences on moskito, some owners planned to rent privately (not via virgin)
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Old Jan 26, 2019, 10:06 pm
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Originally Posted by KatW
My very own - wee bit different from Forbes.
https://www.thesuitelife.com.hk/top-...nings-of-2019/

On that note, I'll be checking out Rosewood Hong Kong personally in early February, including rooms and suites (not staying there, yet).

It'll be a long way away before I make it to either, but both The Lodge at Blue Sky and Sonop intrigue me. The latter in particular because I've seen what they did with Phum Baitang.
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Old Feb 5, 2019, 11:24 am
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Rosewood to Hawai'i, taking over the former Kona Village resort:


Iconic Hawaiian Kona Village resort to reopen as Rosewood in 2022 | Architecture and design news | CLADglobal.com

From last month, but Rosewood also announced they will manage a property in Taipei:

https://m.rosewoodhotels.com/en/taip...Taipei-in-2024
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Old Feb 11, 2019, 8:06 am
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Grace Santorini is now an Auberge?
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Old Feb 12, 2019, 9:23 am
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Forbes raves over Manhattan's Lowell:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryol...ury-hotel/amp/
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Old Feb 12, 2019, 10:03 am
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Originally Posted by KatW
Forbes raves over Manhattan's Lowell:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryol...ury-hotel/amp/
Indeed, a very positive review.
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Old Feb 12, 2019, 3:22 pm
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lowell (and mark) extremely consistent here
lowell has wood burning fireplaces (and kitchens)

coming soon hoshinoya guguan taiwan
3 hr to taiwan
1.5 hr to taichung
similar distance as lalu

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Old Feb 13, 2019, 2:30 am
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IHG just bought Six Senses for around $300 million.

Not surprised, they prepared the bride beautifully. Just IHG is a bit boring.
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Old Feb 13, 2019, 5:15 am
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Originally Posted by scented
IHG just bought Six Senses for around $300 million.

Not surprised, they prepared the bride beautifully. Just IHG is a bit boring.
After buying Regent and Six Senses, I can't think of IHG as boring. Big yes, boring no.
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Old Feb 14, 2019, 2:35 am
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Originally Posted by stimpy
After buying Regent and Six Senses, I can't think of IHG as boring. Big yes, boring no.
Mostly agree. Most IC (dont talk about HI, CP etc.) dont belong to this forum. But some IC/ Regent are pretty nice and belongs to the luxury-level. There are some hotels which are far from boring. We will see if Six Senses will stay an own brand and if for excample the Ambassador programm will be honored. While Six Senses did some (or lets say one) big failures in the past and most resorts are special its nevertheless an interesting brand.
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Old Feb 14, 2019, 11:58 am
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Mostly agree. Most IC (dont talk about HI, CP etc.) dont belong to this forum. But some IC/ Regent are pretty nice and belongs to the luxury-level. There are some hotels which are far from boring. We will see if Six Senses will stay an own brand and if for excample the Ambassador programm will be honored. While Six Senses did some (or lets say one) big failures in the past and most resorts are special its nevertheless an interesting brand.
The huge Seychelles incident aside, Six Senses' more recent resorts are interesting from a design perspective certainly. The old extremely rustic look (Yao Noi, Samui etc) seems to have gone to a more sophisticated (but sitll woody heavy/somewhat rustic) look with cleaner likes - see Seychelles itself, Bhutan, Krabey Island. The resorts also tend to have a proper hotel pool, which the old hotels didn't have/weren't built with (initially).

Fiji probably the exception to the rule somewhat, along with the new opening in Israel although not as many photos there.

Also, maybe the two random city hotel openings in Singapore now make sense...will they be rebranded as other IHG brands? It still doesn't fit in with the Six Senses brand overall.
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