At Dean & Nancy on 22, high above the city, one of the current favourite cocktails is the 2001 Space Odyssey, a cocktail inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film of the same name. This is the film, of course, in which HAL 9000 quietly demonstrates that artificial intelligence can become extremely troublesome if left unsupervised.
Our writers have just returned from this gorgeous property, so look forward to a full rundown soon. For now, Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hoi An is offering Return to Balance, a new wellness stay aimed at anyone who suspects their own balance may have quietly packed a bag and left sometime around Tuesday.
From 16–21 March 2027, around 200 of the Asia-Pacific region’s best surfers will descend on St Clair Beach for the World Surf League Dunedin Pro QS4000 and Junior Pro, bringing serious waves and given this is New Zealand’s South Island, some fairly serious wetsuits
There are hotel rooms where the big excitement is discovering a complimentary chocolate on the pillow. Then there is Reefworld, where you go to bed on the Great Barrier Reef and wake up surrounded by several thousand fish. This is considerably harder for the chocolate to compete with.
The Drover’s Wife, directed by Leah Purcell with a libretto by Purcell and composer George Palmer, is based on Purcell’s acclaimed reinterpretation of Henry Lawson’s iconic 1892 story. Purcell broadens Lawson’s tale of a pioneering woman battling isolation and a snake to confront Australia’s violent colonial history through the introduction of Yadaka, a First Nations man fleeing persecution.
Monaco has launched six new walking routes, which is encouraging because Monaco is the sort of place where one assumes walking is mainly done by impeccably dressed people crossing from a Bentley to a yacht.
Returning from Friday 16 to Sunday 25 October 2026, the Orange Wine Festival will spread more than 40 events across ten days in one of Australia’s most distinctive cool-climate wine regions. There will be everything from tastings to intimate encounters with winemakers.
Rwanda has always had the sort of scenery that makes a person reconsider every holiday previously spent beside a hotel pool reading a novel about people having better holidays. Now The Lux Collective has arrived, opening LUX* Lake Kivu and SALT of Akagera, the first two properties in an ambitious five-resort tourism circuit across the country.
As we have previously commented, the Park Hyatt does the best breakfast in the world along with the best view. This does create difficulties when someone asks how you would like your eggs, because you are too busy staring through the window and wondering whether it would be socially acceptable to move permanently into The Dining Room.
But Champagne now has competition. The latest French obsession is butter. French butter, particularly the Breton sort made by Maison Bordier, has acquired the sort of following usually associated with limited-edition handbags and restaurants whose booking systems open at 3am and are full by 3.01.
