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PROUD Experiences x OutThere:
Celebrating difference

...Venice Simplon Orient Express, starting the revelry at the Belmond Cipriani in Venice, before heading on a fabulous journey on the luxury train to Paris. Belmond Venice Simplon Orient Express...

Real-life taste
Beverly Hills, California, USA

...wonderland on Paris’ Rue Bonaparte. Take a seat: Ladurée Beverly Hills dishes up green cuisine in a green ambience. Photography courtesy of Ladurée. Halfway across town, another restaurant is also...

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts:
Universal treasure hunt

...brand’s portfolio, from Paris to Phuket and beyond, with the bucket list-worthy adventures on offer being no less varied than their respective locations. In New York, guests of The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel...

StockholmLGBT:
When bringing the little ones, think big

...recent years – over ten million tourists annually flock to Sweden’s ‘open city’ these days, making it a solid competitor to Paris, Prague and other classic destinations across the continent....

Greg Lecoeur x Shangri-La :
Underwater love

...the idea of ‘feeling blue’ on its head. A pioneering ‘Ocean Encounters’ exhibition at the brand’s iconic London and Parisien properties will tinge its walls with radiant, cheerful shades of...

Eric Jennings
NYC, New York, USA

...I felt ready to go. It was magical. For a long time, summers found me working in Paris on the men’s fashion shows, so the past summer was the first...

Secret shopper
Buenos Aires, Argentina

...relationship and the on-point experience of a day out with Sophie, I’ve made a fabulous new friend. Find out more about the Paris, New York or London of Latin America...

Head over heels:
Italian luxury hotel (re)openings

...as a Neapolitan-inspired bistro, an open-air 1000 square-metre courtyard with indoor and outdoor pool, rooftop lounges and bars, and ROMEO The Spa by Sisley Paris. Watch this space! ROMEO Roma...

Almyra Hotel
Paphos, Cyprus

...of our suite was open and inviting. By chance, we bumped into the interior designer, a Parisian woman, effortlessly cool and elegant in the way only French ladies can be....

The Library
Koh Samui, Thailand

...Cabaret Paris Follies is an entertaining gender-bending cabaret show and a uniquely Thai, queer experience that mustn’t be missed. Plus, it’s just a ten-minute walk from the hotel. There are...

The Fife Arms
Braemar, Scotland, United Kingdom

...interiors and a fair share of Victoriana kitsch, borders on madness all the more because The Fife Arms is at home not in London or Paris, but in a Highland...

The Experientialist® Awards:
The Finalists

...Shangri-La London and Paris Patrick Woodhead – White Desert Most OutThere initiative in inclusive travel These six travel brands are making a real difference when it comes to fostering inclusivity...

JetBlue Mint:
Transatlantic revelations

...– but also Paris, Amsterdam and soon Dublin; to New York JFK and Boston Logan), it is also available on select US coast-to-coast, Caribbean and Latin American routes. On the pond-hopping...

Elegant Resorts:
Island odysseys

...an ancient statue now housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. On Folegandros, one of our favourite islands, Elegant Resorts guests will stay at Hotel Anemi. The island is tranquil...

Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Monte Carlo, Monaco

...from the Principality’s legendary casino and around the corner from its sister hotel, the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo, this five-starred address is about as conveniently located within the Principality as...

Sindhorn Kempinski Hotel Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand

...a vaulted ceiling featuring a giant, built-in, oval window revealing the atrium above. Imagine a prayer hall conceptualised by Ridley Scott and furnished by a Parisian couturier, with afternoon tea...

NYC post-Trump:
New beginnings

...States’ most European-vibe city a similar vibe to that of Madrid, Paris or Rome. With the large reduction in numbers of foreign visitors, there are certainly much fewer people around....

Dutchess County:
Explore the Hudson Valley

...to try out a refurb’d vintage Airstream caravan, or a luxurious Parisian-style boutique hotel. Some of our favourites include the Mirbeau Inn & Spa, the splendid LGBTQ+-owned B&B Chrystie House...

Holy haul
Jerusalem, Israel

...their way from one holy site to the next, they’ll also come across a number of original merchants and stores that make this an utterly unique shopping destination. Paris. Milan....

Women in travel:
Raising the roof

...Kong and yet somewhat of a Parisian at heart. She greets us with a knowing look and opens the conversation in Cantonese the first time we meet and she showcases...

Wisharawish Akarasantisook and Ston Tantraporn
Bangkok, Thailand

...know it when you see it. S: I think Thailand needs to take the fashion industry more seriously. When you look at Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo or London fashion...

Charles and Ron
Naxxar, Malta

...Perhaps it’s more that the scene got used to coming to them… Many people know the city of Naxxar because of the Palazzo Parisio, once a secret hunting lodge dating...

Kurt Macher, Shangri-La The Shard, London:
365 days of Pride

...ensure that all guests are welcome? We have a variety of properties and no two are the same. Shangri-La Paris used to be a royal palace so it’s very opulent....

Hotel Pulitzer, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Pulitzer is the only member of the Design Hotels family in Argentina. Found on a quintessentially Microcentro (affectionately known as little-Paris) corner of Maipú y Suipacha (handy for taxis...

The Ramble Hotel
Denver, Colorado, USA

...into the Ramble was like walking into a 17th-century Parisian movie set styled by Restoration Hardware: think Persian carpets, golden teardrop chandeliers and gilt-framed artwork from local galleries and studios....

National Vegetarian Week:
Around the world in plant-based meals

...ambiance much more reminiscent of a Parisian bistro: think woody perfumes, not laundry detergent smells wafting through Flora’s interior. In any case, I stuck my nose (not literally) in a...

The Lowell
NYC, USA

...perhaps even Parisian, feel to it all, complete with a stately lobby and an inviting parlour with generous helpings of marble and tassled curtains, albeit in fairly bijou proportions. It...

John T Reddick
NYC, New York, USA

...wide avenues lined with buildings that evoked the streets of Paris must have felt a certain pride in possessing a community that challenged the stereotype of forever residing on Gershwin’s...

StockholmLGBT:
Honeymoon in style in Sweden’s Open City

...over a hundred years of history and originally styled on the eponymous Parisian eatery, Riche is something of a Stockholm institution. Today, the 1930s-refitted functional, sleek and monochrome dining room...

Unity Temple
Oak Park, Illinois, USA

...also elevated a parish church to a piece of world-class architecture. I think it’s all the more remarkable considering that he had just $45,000 to play with. It forced him...

Art and minds
Madrid, Spain

...its infamy as compared to Paris, or Florence. Collectively, the city has an astonishing and valuable portfolio of masterpieces, as well as a legacy of aggrandising royal collectors, from the...

Hotel Glòria de Saint Jaume
Palma, Mallorca, Spain

...best rooms in the house on the top floor (ironically, it’s where the servants used to live), much more bijou and urban Parisian than some of the other suites we...