By John O’Ceallaigh One of the many things that’s insufferable about me is that I go to the Maldives a lot. I know it’s typically a very pricey, once-in-a-lifetime destination…
By John O’Ceallaigh The debut of the Royal Mansour Casablanca just goes to show that opening as a sister property to one of the world’s best hotels isn’t easy. I’ll…
By John O’Ceallaigh A possible problem with hotels that are intentionally discreet is that it can sometimes be easy to overlook them, as I had done with London’s The Beaumont…
By John O’Ceallaigh If you scuttle past the Bridget Riley and Francis Bacon on the Broadwick Soho hotel’s ground floor and instead ascend to the rooftop bar Flute, you might…
By John O’Ceallaigh It’s pretty easy to prove to someone how Maybourne Hotel Group has held dominance over London’s luxury-hotel sector for decades. You just need to tell them it’s…
By John O’Ceallaigh Lots of hotels like to be considered grande dames, but the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul hotel really does feel deserving of that title. That’s perhaps because it…
By John O’Ceallaigh Perhaps the first thing you should know about Helsinki’s new luxury hotel, The Hotel Maria, is that its founder Samppa Lajunen is a three-time Olympic gold medalist…
By John O’Ceallaigh Visits to Hong Kong seem to be a bit like buses for me: due to protests in the city and then the pandemic, I wasn’t able to…
By John O’Ceallaigh I feel like I need to approach Tourism Ireland for an official position as wherever I travel I seem to end up acting as an unpaid ambassador…
By John O’Ceallaigh In Hong Kong, The Upper House shows that good design doesn’t go out of style. The property opened back in 2009, on the upper levels of a…
