John O'Ceallaigh
Luxury-Travel Journalist and Editor at Freelance
It's 'O'Kelly'. Luxury-travel journalist and editor. Founder of luxury-travel consultancy and content agency @luteworld 🇪🇺
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4 weeks ago |
elitetraveler.com | John O'Ceallaigh
In the fall of 1883, Europe’s first transcontinental express service chugged its way along a 1,700-mile route from Paris to Constantinople. For that era’s moneyed and curious, this new era of luxury train travel offered by the new Express d’Orient service suddenly offered an effortless way to access a spread of Europe’s most enigmatic cities, with the promise of stops at the beer halls of Munich, ballrooms of Vienna, and spa waters of Budapest.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | John O'Ceallaigh
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1 month ago |
telegraph.co.uk | John O'Ceallaigh
With 240,000 Britons now calling the desert city home, a recent arrival shares 10 things he has learnt since making the big leapIt wasn't long after I moved to London in 2007 that the financial crisis took hold and reports emerged of Dubai residents dumping their supercars at the airport as they fled the city.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | John O'Ceallaigh
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Jan 1, 2025 |
elitetraveler.com | John O'Ceallaigh
Tourist boards’ marketing materials tend towards hyperbole, but it took me just a few hours at sea to concede that the tagline that branding eggheads had contrived for Visit Palau wasn’t arrogant — it was simply accurate. Stupefied by the vistas surrounding me, I struggled to think of a more apt description than the one I’d seen plastered across Visit Palau’s website.
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I was one of the contributors to this year's @TravelLeisure It List of the world's 100 best new hotels. You can read the full selection below, including my entry for @Broadwicksoho https://t.co/EBrP2jLvGJ
With all the hoo-ha that surrounds 'best of' lists like the inaugural 'World's 50 Best' hotels countdown, I wrote about what really makes a hotel exceptional for @irishexaminer - and explore why some of the best properties will never be widely recognised https://t.co/pC510y802R
Have luxury hotels lost their way? With so many hotels essentially replicating each other, I'll be moderating a panel on this topic at next month's @ATMDubai. In the meantime, here's something I've written about how formulaic high-end hotels have become https://t.co/T4NdgxYmCj
