Philippa Coates

Dec 8, 2024 | afr.com | Philippa Coates

Dec 9, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The first thing that would surprise guests arriving at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth hotel after a 58-year absence would be the check-in procedure.

Sep 30, 2024 | afr.com | Philippa Coates

Life & LuxuryTravelIt seems no waters are uncharted these days. We tapped eight cruise leaders for their favourite itineraries. Visitors to the frozen continent go with the floe as their cruise ship makes port against the ice.  Oct 1, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? So many cruise ships, so many itineraries. Where to start?

Sep 1, 2024 | afr.com | Philippa Coates

Sep 2, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In terms of timing, it was a disaster. Upon checking in at the Ole Sereni hotel in Nairobi at 10.30pm, I learnt that a few hours earlier, protests at Parliament House against a new tax bill had turned deadly.

Aug 19, 2024 | afr.com | Philippa Coates

Aug 20, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Every Thursday morning throughout winter, the seven members of Herwig Demschar’s executive team go skiing together. “It’s ski first, business second,” says Demschar of the ritual he introduced when he took the top job at SilverStar Mountain Resort in 2022.

Jun 4, 2024 | afr.com | Philippa Coates

Life & LuxuryTravelA mid-week stay in a national park just an hour’s drive from central Sydney has the same restorative effect as a power nap – only you’ll remember it all. Jun 5, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?