Category: Australia

Interview with Richard Beck of Classic Travel

Interview with Richard Beck of Classic Travel

By on Feb 09, 2007 in Accommodation, Australia, Brazil, Celebrities, Cruises & Boat Travel, Europe, Fiji, France, Hotels, Interviews, New York, North America, Oceania, Regions, Resorts, South America, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany, USA, Western Europe

Richard Beck is President of Classic Travel, a luxury travel website supported by a full service travel agency that has been operating in New York City since 1962. As well as enabling you to book hotels online, the website goes a step further and actually allows you to customize your room, letting you  decide what […]

Interview with Tahnya Butterfield of Style Clinic

Interview with Tahnya Butterfield of Style Clinic

By on Feb 06, 2007 in Accommodation, Air Travel, Asia, Australia, Celebrities, Going Out, Hotels, Illinois, Indonesia, Interviews, Massachusetts, North America, Oceania, Regions, Resorts, Restaurants, Speciality Travel, Thailand, Travel Miscellany, USA

Tahnya Butterfield is ‘Head Honcho’ for Style Clinic by Astin Brown Inc., having previously worked in the hotel industry, human resources and organisational development consulting. She is a relentless collector of successful talent who immerse themselves in generating dynamite bespoke luxury shopping tours, style guides and precision personalised itineraries. What is it that  you do […]

Luxury travel links of the week

Luxury travel links of the week

By on Feb 04, 2007 in Accessories, Accommodation, Air Travel, Australia, Europe, Food and Drink, Going Out, Hotels, Netherlands, New York, North America, Oceania, Regions, Restaurants, Speciality Travel, Travel Equipment, Travel Miscellany, USA, Websites, Western Europe

A  weekly  pick of luxury travel  links for your perusal… Book Australia’s finest hotels at Luxury Down Under Dine in a greenhouse at De Kas, Amsterdam Use a Champagne sabre to open that next bottle See New York from above with Liberty Helicopters

City Lights Welcome Cruise from Captain Cook Cruises

By on Jan 31, 2007 in Australia, Cruises & Boat Travel, Oceania, Regions, Speciality Travel

In three weeks’ time (on 20th February 2007), the Queen Mary 2 will join the Queen Elizabeth  2 for the first time in Sydney Harbour. It promises to be a great spectacle and Captain Cook Cruises will be hosting a City Lights Welcome Cruise to provide passengers with front-row seats to the event.

Interview with Nicolas Peluffo of Ponta dos Ganchos Exclusive Resort

Interview with Nicolas Peluffo of Ponta dos Ganchos Exclusive Resort

By on Jan 26, 2007 in Accommodation, Africa, Argentina, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Europe, Fiji, Food and Drink, France, Going Out, Hotels, Indonesia, Interviews, Maldives, Monaco, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Regions, Resorts, Restaurants, Seychelles, South Africa, South America, Travel Miscellany, Western Europe

Nicolas Peluffo is General Director of Ponta dos Ganchos Exclusive Resort, located in the beautiful Santa Catarina province of Brazil, 45 minutes from Florianopolis airport.   It is a Relais & Chateaux member and a Virtuoso Preferred Hotel. What is it that  you do exactly? I am obsessed about my work and a bit of […]

Champagne Sunset Wildlife Safari at Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge, Australia

Champagne Sunset Wildlife Safari at Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge, Australia

By on Jan 18, 2007 in Accommodation, Adventure Travel, Australia, Food and Drink, Oceania, Regions, Resorts, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany

Opt for a Champagne Sunset Wildlife Safari at Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge  in Australia’s Northern Territory and you will have the opportunity to see opportunity to see Buffalo, Banteng Cattle and Timor Ponies grazing or, if you  look up, you may spot Osprey, Sea Eagle or Brahminy Kite. Finish the day relaxing on their […]

New resort at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

New resort at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

By on Jan 16, 2007 in Accommodation, Australia, Hotels, Oceania, Regions, Resorts

Ningaloo Reef, off Western Australia,  has its first international resort hotel. The Novotel Ningaloo Resort,  on the edge of Sunrise Beach in Exmouth Marina Village, opened  last month ahead of its February 2007 opening. It is  close to Ningaloo Reef,  the largest fringing coral reef in Australia and with over 500 fish species. The $16 […]

Ebookers 10 best holiday destinations for 2007

Ebookers 10 best holiday destinations for 2007

By on Jan 14, 2007 in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Florida, Middle East, New York, North America, Oceania, Regions, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, USA, Western Europe, Worldwide

January seems to a popular for month for ‘best’ lists, and Ebookers is getting in on the PR game.   These are apparently the 10 best-selling beach and city destinations of the Ebookers worldwide sale, which runs until 31st January 2007: Bangkok Sydney New York Johannesburg Dubai Cape Town Barcelona Miami Perth Orlando

Interview with Trisha Johnson of Aegean Sails

Interview with Trisha Johnson of Aegean Sails

By on Jan 12, 2007 in Accommodation, Australia, Caribbean, Croatia, Cruises & Boat Travel, Eastern Europe, Europe, Going Out, Greece, Hotels, Interviews, Jamaica, Middle East, Oceania, Regions, Restaurants, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany, Turkey, Western Europe

Trisha Johnson is President of Aegean Sails  which offers high end yacht (gulet) charter services in the Aegean Sea (Greece and Turkey). Trisha previously worked in tourism in the 1980s, but spent several years in the relocation business working with New York corporations, before getting back into travel in 2000. What is it that  you […]

Luxury travel links of the week

Luxury travel links of the week

By on Jan 07, 2007 in Accommodation, Asia, Australia, Bars, Europe, Going Out, Hotels, India, Oceania, Regions, Restaurants, Travel Miscellany, United Kingdom, Websites, Western Europe

A  weekly  pick of luxury travel links for your perusal… Fish for barramundi at Wrotham Park Lodge, Australia Experience the 18th Century at Ahilya Fort, India Devour Spanish tapas in London,  at Fino Get some retail therapy at The W Hotels Store

Australia Day with Captain Cook Cruises

Australia Day with Captain Cook Cruises

By on Dec 26, 2006 in Australia, Cruises & Boat Travel, Events, Oceania, Regions, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany

Experience all the excitement and celebrations of Australia Day on Captain Cook Cruises special Sydney Harbour two night Cruise from 25th to 27th January 2007 onboard the MV Captain Cook’s Explorer. Your Australia Day cruise begins with a welcome dinner and the lights of the spectacular city as the backdrop. Spend the night anchored in […]

Australia's best hotel?

Australia’s best hotel?

By on Dec 21, 2006 in Accommodation, Australia, Hotels, Oceania, Regions

Crown Towers has once again been awarded one of the highest accolades in the tourism industry, winning Australia’s premier luxury travel award as Best Australian Hotel in the Luxury Travel Magazine Gold List Awards 2007.   This beautiful Melbourne hotel can be found on the south bank of the Yarra River and has 482 luxuriously-appointed […]

Blue & Green Package at Peppers Anchorage

By on Dec 18, 2006 in Accommodation, Australia, Leisure Travel, Oceania, Regions, Resorts, Special Offers & Packages, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany

Is golf your pleasure? Peppers Anchorage invites you to saunter outside and be enticed by their Blue & Green Package, just two and a half hours drive from Sydney.  The package  includes 2 nights deluxe accommodation, full buffet breakfast each morning, and 3 days of golf (green fees only) at Pacific Dunes, Le Meilleur Horizons […]

Brand new beachside resort in Hervey Bay, Queensland

Brand new beachside resort in Hervey Bay, Queensland

By on Dec 06, 2006 in Accommodation, Australia, Oceania, Regions, Resorts, Special Offers & Packages, Travel Miscellany

Peppers Pier Resort, Hervey Bay is due to open next month and is celebrating with a special opening offer of 3 nights’ accommodation for the price of two. The resorts sets a new high-water mark for beach holiday sophistication, featuring six levels of deluxe accommodation and sweeping bay views to the World Heritage listed Fraser […]

Spa Finder Readers' Choice Awards 2006

Spa Finder Readers’ Choice Awards 2006

By on Oct 05, 2006 in Africa, Arizona, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Europe, Germany, North America, Oceania, Regions, South Africa, South America, Spas & Pampering, Speciality Travel, Thailand, USA, Western Europe, Worldwide

The global spa resource, Spa Finder, has announced its 2006 Readers’ Choice Awards. The crème de la crème of the awards are the six Crystal Award winners, which has one honoree on each continent. And the 6 winners  of these hotly-contested awards are: Africa: Santé Winelands Wellness Centre, Paarl-Franschhoek Valley, South Africa Asia: Chiva-Som, Hua […]

Early bird rates for Outrigger Beach Club Port Douglas

Early bird rates for Outrigger Beach Club Port Douglas

By on Sep 29, 2006 in Accommodation, Australia, Oceania, Regions, Resorts

The long-anticipated, five-star  Outrigger Beach Club Port Douglas will open on 1st October 2006. As part of its opening promotion, the resort is offering exceptional rates to its earliest visitors. Enjoy 4 nights for the price of 3 from AU$418 per person in a luxurious spa suite,  or from  AU$518 and AU$684 per person in […]