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There’s a version of Nashville everyone thinks they know. Cowboy hats. Bachelorette sashes. Dolly Parton smiling down from every wall in town. Hot chicken that fights back. Keith Urban sightings. The neon stretch of Broadway blasting country covers into humid Tennessee nights.
Every year, when winter finally loosens its icy grip on the Great Plains, North Dakota wakes up like someone who’s had a very long nap and suddenly remembers they own several thousand square kilometres of spectacular wildlife habitat.
Paris has officially unpacked its suitcase in Midtown. Sofitel, the French-born hotel brand known for its love of croissants, couture and unapologetic glamour, has revealed the full transformation of its U.S. flagship, Sofitel New York. The result? A hotel that feels like a stylish New Yorker who’s just returned from a semester in Paris and come back with better taste, better lighting and a new obsession with Art Deco.
Four Seasons is inviting travellers to rediscover Mexico, the divine, soul-soothing, spa-scented version. Think spiritually reborn via mezcal and 800-thread-count sheets.
Some travel companies will sell you the idea of “getting away from it all” and then promptly dump you at a five-star hotel where the minibar is $14.50 for a packet of chips and the neighbours are from Mosman. Arctic Kingdom, on the other hand, has taken things rather more literally. Their new trip, Northern Lights Odyssey, whisks you off to Iqaluit, Nunavut, and onwards to Blachford Lodge in the Northwest Territories. This means places where you’re more likely to run into a snowshoe hare than an influencer.
So just when you thought your couch couldn’t possibly look any drabber, along comes Foxtel with the official trailer for Luxury Escapes: The World’s Best Holidays, premiering Thursday 11 September. And before you ask, yes, episodes will be dropping weekly because delayed gratification is still a thing in 2025.
You cannot get much better than the Beacon Grand’s posse on the major thoroughfare of Powell Street. Here you’re within walking distance to Union Square, major stores, galleries, theatres, and the city’s fabled Chinatown, the oldest in America.
How does Qantas’s current business class product stack up against the big guns? We put it to the test on a B787-9 flight to from Melbourne to Los Angeles.
This summer, forget subtlety. Embrace rhinestones. Drench yourself in pink. If your heart isn’t beating to the rhythm of a banjo and your cocktail doesn’t come with a paper parasol and a wink, you’re doing Nashville wrong.
There are few pleasures in life as decadent as classical music and fine wine—except, perhaps, enjoying them together. Imagine yourself sprawled in a lush vineyard, glass in hand, while violins and cellos coax magic from the summer air.
In the untouched wilds of Vancouver Island, where the whisper of the wind through the cedars and the call of the eagles remind you just how far you are from the ordinary, there lies a place that has captured the essence of luxury and seclusion.
This is a doorway into the wild, a chance to stand beneath the Northern Lights and swim alongside orcas and humpbacks in the Norwegian fjords. This is no ordinary getaway; it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience crafted for nature lovers and thrill-seekers alike.
