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3 weeks ago |
dotwnews.com | Sarah Freeman
DAY 1 09:30 - Travel in style from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in a luxury sedan arranged by your five-star check-in: Four Seasons Hotel Seattle. Housed in a U-shaped 21-storey high-rise, it’s set cinematically atop a bluff overlooking Puget Sound: a 100-mile-long deep estuary of the eastern North Pacific Ocean.
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2 months ago |
cruiseandtravel.co.uk | Sarah Freeman
Cradled by cypress tree-studded hills and bisected by the Arno River, Italy’s former capital, Florence was founded by Roman soldiers in 59 BC, who christened her Florentia (meaning “Flourishing”). And flourish she did, becoming one of the wealthiest cities in medieval Europe, thanks largely to the Medici: a wealthy art-loving family who became its de facto rulers during the renaissance period.
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2 months ago |
dotwnews.com | Sarah Freeman
I savour another sip of the velvety drink in one of Florence’s grandest people-watching squares, Piazza della Signoria. Famous for its bronze replica of Michelangelo’s David, Signoria is also home to the Tuscan capital’s original artisan chocolatier: Caffè Rivoire. Made according to a 150-year-old secret recipe, its cioccolata calda was the hot chocolate of choice for the Medici family; the political-banking dynasty that ruled Florence for three centuries during its glorious Renaissance years.
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Feb 1, 2025 |
dotwnews.com | Sarah Freeman
DAY 1 09:00 - Travel in Thai style from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport in a Four Seasons Hotel limousine to the city’s foremost five-star address. The masterwork of eminent Belgian architect Jean-Michel Gathy, the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River lobby’s jet-black pools and percolating water features are a clue to the sprawling sanctuary’s waterside locale. The hotel hugs a 200-metre-stretch of the Chao Phraya, that’s immortalised in stylised map form in the lobby.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
dotwnews.com | Sarah Freeman
A boat wends along the river, backdropped by the distinctive chimneys of Battersea Power Station and London’s Grade II-listed Albert Bridge, where cars are reduced to ant-like proportions. It’s a view I drink in whilst stretched out across the chaise longue of my 14th floor Park Suite River View Deluxe. A study in understated elegance, the furniture is upholstered in soft grey and rust orange tones and offset with leather-brass accents, dark woods and parquet floors.
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