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Mandarin Oriental Barcelona
Bathed in sun and swimming in style, Barcelona forever inhabits the hearts of its visitors.
By: Mary Gostelow
There is a dipping pool on the ninth floor rooftop of Mandarin Oriental Barcelona. Proper swimming in its 40-foot basement pool, however, is surreal. Are you a pearl in a malachite silk box, or a bird in a cage?
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 | | |   | | Cruise the Nile with Oberoi
Those great A-listers of the luxury cruising world, namely Roman Abramovich and Paul Allen, must feel as if they’re staying in Walmart compared ... more
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| |  | | Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, France
To show that anti-ageing is working, the 101-year old palace, a member of Leading Small Hotels of the World, is now as youthful as a prima ballerina.... more
By: Mary Gostelow |
| | | |  | | InterContinental Hong Kong
I was working away in the adjacent gym, grinding away on a treadmill and looking out through the all-glass wall. Suddenly, at 5:45 pm, the ten rather-... more
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| | | | | |  | | The Cliveden Hotel
You come in through ceremonial stone gates, drive half a mile through woodland and, at a massive round Careera sculpture Fountain Of Love, by American... more
By: Mary Gostelow |
| |  | | Spa at Icon Brickell
Philippe Starck, who apparently has no idea of practicality, has designed the Spa at Icon Brickell, which is integral with Viceroy Miami. more
By: Mary Gostelow |
| | | |  | | Park Hyatt Shanghai
The plane arrived and Elite Service, an outsourced facility, met me and escorted me landside to the Hyatt representative, who in turn walked me to the... more
By: Mary Gostelow |
| |  | | The Merrion, Dublin
There were two of us in the pool of The Merrion's Tethra Spa and there was plenty of room. more
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