Andrew Harris

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Grand Resort Bad Ragaz Shows What Over 150 Years of Wellness Experience is Worth

2 weeks ago | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

This part of Switzerland, nestled up to Liechtenstein and the Austrian border, with its soaring peaks, glimmering lakes, and pristine expanses of green unfurled across a spectacular landscape like huge luxurious carpets, has an unreal quality to it all.
La Mamounia: Marrakech’s Grande Dame Still Reigns Supreme

2 months ago | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

A solitary puff of a cotton ball cloud floats aimlessly through a mystical light that’s lured artists like lemmings for centuries. Simmering birdsong is the only sound as the sun begins its shadow dance around a seemingly endless and spectacularly lush tropical garden disappearing away into distant snow-capped mountains.
Royal Mansour Tamuda Bay: Inside King Mohamed VI’s Lavish Retreat

2 months ago | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

It’s good to be the king, as Mel Brooks in his guise as a lascivious Louis XVI reminded us in his 1981 film, The History of The World Part One. It’s particularly good if you happen to be King Mohamed VI of Morocco, who, whilst not an absolute monarch, nevertheless wields a significant amount of unfettered influence over his subjects.
Palazzo Fiuggi: High-Tech Healing in the Italian Hills

2 months ago | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

For those of us accustomed to beginning the day with a dip, there are few sights more gratifying than a pool with no one else in it. The one I’ve encountered at the end of a long, opulent marble-lined corridor, with its fountain on one side, and darts of winter sun sneaking in at the other, is particularly alluring. I swim up to a glass wall only for it to slide open and usher me through a channel as if into a Bond villain’s lair, whereupon I’m suddenly swimming outside.
Futuristic Splendor at Rome’s Newest Luxury Hotel: Romeo Roma

Feb 27, 2025 | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

The Eternal City’s latest luxury hotel has sometimes seemed like it was taking an eternity to arrive. The Romeo Roma, opening its doors into the opening days of 2025, was originally slated to debut in 2016, since then a slew of other ultra-luxe offerings have landed amidst the Italian capital’s style-infused streets. No doubt the hotel’s ebullient owner, Neapolitan businessman Alfredo Romeo, would maintain the best is saved until last.
Dining at the Top Table of French Gastronomy

Feb 5, 2025 | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

Far from succumbing (as some might have it) to an over-touristed Emily In Paris anodyne theme park, the City of Lights remains as mesmerizingly beautiful as ever. A stroll through the wonderfully revitalized 17th-century streetscape of the Marais, across the Seine to the magnificently restored Notre Dame and onto the left bank will still conjure up those little moments of magic and frissons of quintessential Frenchness that it always has done.
Top-tier Athens Hospitality

Nov 29, 2024 | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

When, in the 1960s and 70s, northern Europe established its now ingrained ritual of moving down to Southern Europe for its summer vacations, Nikos Daskalantonakis seized the moment and began moving up. In 1975 the former olive oil trader opened his first hotel just outside his hometown of Rethymno on the island of Crete. Half a century later, his company, Grecotel, has become the largest hospitality group in the country. Grecotel is a big fat Greek success story.
Regent Santa Monica Beach, Review: A Fresh Take on California Charm

Nov 6, 2024 | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

Santa Monica Pier, with its glittering, solar-powered, neon Ferris wheel (the only one in the world), sits at the tail end of Route 66 like a prize for all those who made their way down it.
La Pergola: Rome’s Only Three-Michelin-starred Restaurant

Oct 2, 2024 | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

It seems that 1963 was a busy year for Conrad Hilton. In a time when most 76-year-olds were long since retired, this force of corporate nature was as busy as ever, dotting the world with his ultra-modern reinterpretation of the Grand Hotel. That year alone, Hilton opened hotels in London, Rome, Athens, Tehran, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, and Portland, Oregon.
La Pergola: Rome’s Only Three-Michelin-starred Restaurant

Oct 1, 2024 | elitetraveler.com | Andrew Harris

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