Improvements and extraordinary experiences proceed to redefine the boundaries of luxurious journey and this month isn’t any exception. British Airways has unveiled its new First Class seat while Singapore Airways is embarking on a daring cabin improve additionally, with each setting new requirements for long-haul premium journey. Study this and different developments in our newest round-up of tales from the world of luxurious journey.
British Airways has unveiled its brand-new First seat, combining elegant design with skilled British craftsmanship, reflective of recent British luxurious journey. The brand new cabin kinds a part of the airline’s A380 retrofit plans, anticipated to take to the skies in mid-2026. The airline’s new First has been fastidiously designed to supply the texture of a contemporary luxurious lodge, alongside residence comforts and considerate British touches at 35,000ft. The seat has been fantastically curated by skilled designers and world-class producers from all corners of Nice Britain and Eire, together with London, Glasgow, West Yorkshire, Kilkeel and Dublin.
The brand new seat is ultra-wide (36.5inches), with a mattress size of 79inches, and includes a multi-purpose ottoman and chic stowable desk, a 32-inch 4K TV display, adjustable temper lighting together with scenes equivalent to ‘relax’, ‘dine’ and ‘cinema’. The seat may be adjusted with the contact of a button to seek out the right stage of consolation and is situated inside a cocooned 60-inch curved wall for final privateness, while nonetheless offering a spacious surroundings.
Desert & Delta Safaris, the main safari operator in Botswana, has been honoured with the distinguished World Luxurious Journey Awards (WLTA) for Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa. This accolade recognises the corporate’s excellent dedication to accountable and sustainable tourism in considered one of Africa’s most pristine wildlife locations.
Established in 1982, Desert & Delta Safaris has turn out to be probably the most profitable and revered safari operators in Botswana over the previous 4 many years. The corporate owns and manages a portfolio of 9 premier safari properties situated in prime wildlife areas, together with the long-lasting Okavango Delta, Chobe Nationwide Park, and the Makgadikgadi Pans Nationwide Park Setting Desert & Delta Safaris aside is its unwavering dedication to sustainable tourism and group growth. As a 100 per cent Botswana-owned firm, it has performed a major function within the nation’s tourism trade, contributing to financial development and conservation efforts.
IHG Lodges & Resorts (IHG) has launched its new beautiful life-style model, Atwell Suites, in Larger China. Utilizing “new territorial home” because the core design idea, Atwell Suites is devoted to providing a high-quality expertise for younger friends in search of an beautiful life-style, and making a dwelling area with aesthetic worth, emotional worth and religious worth. It additionally presents a brand new alternative with glorious returns for lodge traders by a excessive premium and low value enterprise mannequin.
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Initially opened by Qantas within the Sixties, this iconic five-star lodge has been revitalised with 436 redesigned rooms and suites, 4 new eating and bar venues by Home Made Hospitality, and upgraded occasion areas, together with considered one of Sydney’s largest ballrooms.
Situated within the coronary heart of Sydney’s CBD, simply footsteps from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera Home, its new imaginative and prescient reignites the ’60s jet-set glamour that attracted royals, film stars, and dignitaries to Australia‘s premier international hotel. The rebirth of a Sydney icon coincides with the Diamond Jubilee of Accor’s Sofitel model, celebrating 60 years of French-inspired luxurious and understated grandeur.
Bentley Motors has joined forces with London-based vogue and life-style model, PICANTE, to launch an unique capsule assortment. The collaboration highlights Bentley’s wealthy heritage by PICANTE’s modern lens and the manufacturers’ love of journey, creating a novel storyline of the open street, and the journey to uncover hidden gems.
The Italian luxurious wellness group, Lefay Resorts & Residences is happy to announce its Grual Restaurant at Lefay Resort & Spa Dolomiti, led by Government Chef Matteo Maenza, obtained a Michelin Star.
Opened in December 2019, the Grual Restaurant is known as after the mountain that kinds the backdrop of the resort and emphasizes Trentino-South Tyrol components sourced from natural and sustainable suppliers. Impressed by an enchanted forest, it depends on moral cooking and cautious number of uncooked supplies for a delicacies of concepts that excite. Its menu is “altimetric” – or organized by altitude – with every dish is constructed from components that commemorate the mountains, in a metaphorical journey that from the valley ground, rises to the Excessive Mountains, passing by the Alpine pastures. There are two tasting menus: “The Path” and “the Peak,” with 8 and 12 programs, respectively.
Purple Sea World, the developer behind regenerative tourism locations The Purple Sea and AMAALA, is worked up to announce that Saudi Arabia’s latest luxurious resort, Shebara, and the fourth to open its doorways at The Purple Sea vacation spot is welcoming friends from November 2024.
Shebara, the primary to open of RSG’s owned and operated resorts, is constructed to supply luxurious, sustainability, and innovation converging to redefine how tourism is delivered. The resort supplies direct entry to a unprecedented marine surroundings the place friends can get pleasure from diving in among the most pristine, biodiverse waters on the planet.
Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental, Abu Dhabi has introduced that legendary Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli, will headline its annual New 12 months’s Eve celebration. Set towards the serene backdrop of the Arabian Gulf and the glittering skyline of the Capital, Andrea Bocelli’s timeless melodies will captivate friends as they ring in 2025 in type.
The magical night will start with a welcome cocktail on the Grand Dome adopted by an beautiful number of limitless premium drinks and lavishly curated connoisseur tasting stations. Because the countdown begins, friends can anticipate spectacular renditions of Bocelli’s basic songs carried out outdoor on the Palace Terrace. At midnight, a stunning fireworks show will gentle up the skies over the Corniche and an unique after-party that includes famend worldwide DJs will proceed till the early hours.
Singapore Airways is investing SG$1.1 billion in a multi-year initiative to improve the long-haul cabin expertise throughout its fleet of 41 Airbus A350-900 plane. This daring transfer goals to redefine premium journey, enhancing consolation and luxurious for passengers on long-haul and ultra-long-range routes.
As a part of this program, the airline will introduce an opulent First Class cabin on its seven A350-900ULR plane, setting new requirements for luxurious on the world’s longest flights. Enterprise Class passengers may also profit from cutting-edge seat designs, providing higher privateness, consolation, and comfort throughout all the fleet.
Halong Pacific JSC has launched its 5-star luxurious cruise ship, Luna Halong Cruise, with its maiden voyage having been made on twenty first November 2024. As pioneers in integrating the most recent know-how, tools, and progressive designs, Luna Halong Cruise goals to ship a refined and distinctive cruise expertise.
Boasting a most capability of 550 friends, the Luna Halong Cruise is at present the largest vessel working in each Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay. Company can get pleasure from a variety of amenities, together with two luxurious eating places, 11 personal eating and reception rooms, 50 premium cabins with personal balconies, a contemporary 360-degree panorama stage and a glass backside pool.
EG Chauffeurs – London & UK Large, a number one supplier of luxurious chauffeur providers, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the title of The Finest Chauffeur Firm 2024 and named Regional Winner for Northern Europe on the prestigious World Luxurious Journey Awards.
Based in 2013, EG Chauffeurs focuses on skilled and discreet chauffeur providers, providing an expensive fleet that features the most recent Mercedes-Benz S-Class, V-Class, Vary Rover, and electrical fashions just like the New BMW i7 and EQVs. The corporate serves a worldwide clientele, together with royal households, EAs, CEOs, personal jet operators, DMCs, and funding companies, with providers tailor-made to satisfy the very best expectations. Our skilled chauffeurs guarantee a seamless, first-class expertise tailor-made to your wants. Whether or not for enterprise or leisure, EG Chauffeurs delivers impeccable service with a give attention to security, punctuality, and discretion.
Insider Villas has formally opened its doorways in Sweden, marking its first enlargement into Scandinavia. Situated within the mesmerizing fantastic thing about Trensum, Villa Lily Croft presents luxurious vacationers an escape to the breathtaking Blekinge Archipelago. Company can expertise personal kayaking journeys by the lake waters, previous unspoiled islands and unspoiled nature. This distinctive villa combines journey with tranquility, completely capturing the essence of Insider Villas’ dedication to luxurious experiences.
With Sweden now a part of its rising assortment of over 200 hand-picked villas and chalets, Insider Villas invitations you to discover this Nordic luxurious retreat.
InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort is delighted to announce its new partnership with luxurious skincare model, Biologique Recherche, the famend French firm celebrated for its holistic method to skincare. Recognized for curating merchandise that mix scientific experience with personalised care, Biologique Recherche will carry a brand new vary of revitalising and purposeful therapies to the resort’s AVI Spa. This thrilling collaboration launched on twenty fifth November 2024.
Biologique Recherche was based 40 years in the past by Yvan and Josette, a biologist and a physiotherapist. Pushed by their shared ardour and experience, they developed a scientific method to magnificence care, utilising pure, concentrated, and uncooked components alongside progressive, meticulously crafted protocols. The model’s methodology is distilled right into a three-step care course of: starting with evaluation, adopted by preparation, and concluding with focused therapy. Every of their merchandise is designed to help and improve this course of at each stage. Integrating Biologique Recherche’s merchandise and methodology into AVI Spa enhances its choices for friends, delivering an elevated skincare and physique care expertise that goes past a pampering therapy and presents wellness providers with a deeper, purposeful focus.
British Airways has introduced three new routes for summer season 2025, bolstering its in depth community of Italian locations. Launching in Could 2025, British Airways will introduce new flights to Rimini (RMI) on the Adriatic Coast from London Heathrow, and Salerno (QSR) on the Amalfi Coast from London Gatwick. A brand new service from London Metropolis to Olbia (OLB) in Sardinia will complement present flights from Heathrow. The brand new routes will carry the entire variety of Italian locations served by the flag provider to 19, greater than every other European nation on the airline’s community.
Step right into a world of class and indulgence as InterContinental Singapore launches the world’s first Champagne Categorical Lane. Elevating the standard drive-through idea, this luxury expertise presents friends an unparalleled alternative to benefit from the best bubbles and caviar on the go.
The extremely anticipated opening of The Sira, a Luxurious Assortment Resort & Spa, Lombok has opened. Nestled within the coronary heart of West Nusa Tenggara province in Indonesia, the resort is only a 90-minute drive from Zainuddin Abdul Madjid Worldwide Airport. A dwelling cultural expression of the beloved vacation spot, the resort fantastically embodies Lombok’s historical past, tradition, and indigenous traditions, providing international explorers distinctive and genuine experiences, in addition to direct entry to the sprawling sands of Sire Seaside. With its debut, The Sira in Lombok joins an ensemble of Luxurious Assortment properties in Indonesia because the third jewel, alongside the long-lasting The Laguna, a Luxurious Assortment Resort & Spa, Nusa Dua in Bali and the enchanting TA’AKTANA, a Luxurious Assortment Resort & Spa in Labuan Bajo. Every property presents an immersive expertise uniquely crafted to showcase the mesmerizing magnificence, indigenous tradition, and spirit of Indonesia’s most treasured locations.
Jean-Michel Gathy, famend for his visionary contributions to luxurious hospitality design, has as soon as once more raised the bar together with his newest undertaking, Cheval Blanc Seychelles opening on 1st December 2024. His partnership with LVMH marks a brand new milestone with the launch of this villa-only resort: one other jewel within the Cheval Blanc portfolio.
With 52 villas, Cheval Blanc Seychelles presents mesmerizing panoramas of the Indian Ocean, with 24 elegant villas set on the stainless seashores and 28 ensconced within the lush hills, effortlessly harmonizing with Seychelles’ pure magnificence. Starting from 220m² to 620m², every villa includes a personal 12.5-meter swimming pool, creating an idyllic setting for {couples}, households, or teams of buddies to relish a outstanding vacation expertise.
The Luxurious Group and Sotheby’s will public sale two fascinating experiences designed to pair world-class hospitality with distinctive treasures from Sotheby’s auctions providing friends the possibility to discover their passions whereas discovering unforgettable locations.
Watch lovers could have the unique alternative to bid on an intimate horology immersion at The Ritz-Carlton Resort de la Paix, Geneva with legendary watch model Girard-Perregaux, together with a hands-on workshop with the artisans; singular alternatives to buy limited-edition timepieces; and a non-public culinary expertise on the Villa Girard-Perregaux in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the model’s ancestral residence. In the meantime, an epicurean voyage curated by The Luxurious Assortment will see friends verify into Prince de Galles, a Luxurious Assortment Resort, Paris earlier than exploring the nation’s culinary treasures, from a guided day journey to Champagne Lallier’s historic Maison in Aÿ for a style of its newest harvests, to a day tea with World Explorer and esteemed chef and artist, Laila Gohar, whose food-inspired works have been showcased around the globe.
INFINITUM has retained its crown as ‘Europe’s Finest Golf Actual Property Venue’ on the illustrious World Golf Awards, whereas the acclaimed Ruins format was named ‘Europe’s Finest 9 Gap Golf Course’. Already a serious participant in continental golf, the Catalan resort has taken the actual property trade by storm lately, constructing and promoting greater than 200 villas and luxurious flats a stone’s throw from the Mediterranean Sea.
The third part of INFINITUM’s formidable residential undertaking, comprising of 90 luxurious two, three and four-bedroom flats, is underneath building throughout prime places on the resort. All 150 properties in part one offered out inside a 12 months, and part two – a number of opulent flats and villas designed by main architectural agency Batlle I Roig – is on observe for comparable gross sales success.
Qatar Airways is proud to announce an thrilling new partnership with Novak Djokovic because the airline’s World Model Ambassador and Wellness Advisor. This multi-year collaboration positions Qatar Airways because the Official Airline Associate of Novak Djokovic, bringing collectively the World’s Finest Airline, as voted by Skytrax in 2024, and a sporting icon famend for excellence, resilience, and international enchantment.
The partnership was unveiled on the Altitude Wellness Centre at Al Maha Qatar Airways Crew Lodging Constructing, a location symbolic of peak efficiency and well-being – qualities synonymous with Novak’s legendary profession. Paying homage to Novak’s unmatched success on tennis courts internationally, this collaboration celebrates his unparalleled achievements and relentless pursuit of excessive efficiency.
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxurious Journey Weblog and has labored within the journey trade for greater than 30 years. He’s Winner of the Improvements in Journey ‘Best Travel Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. Along with different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of the world’s best travel blogs” and “best for luxury” by The Telegraph.
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