Uwern Jong

London

Co-Founder and Experientialist-in-Chief at OutThere

#Experientialist-in-Chief and co-Founder @OutThereMag | Award-winning travel editor | Luxury hotel aficionado | Inclusive tourism advocate | 🇬🇧 🇲🇾 🏳️‍🌈

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Articles

OutThere reviews the Aman that's not shy of its full Venetian drag

2 weeks ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

The Aman brand may be renowned for its luxurious minimalism and rich simplicity. But in “La Serenissima”, it’s taking the concept of serenity with a big pinch of Venetian sea salt. You see, in this city of canals, the Aman Venice has slipped into full Venetian drag… Baroque, Rococo and all the other schools of aesthetics that our design-loving hearts could ever desire. Think chandeliers the size of Fiat 500s and gilding that would make a Fabergé egg feel underdressed.
OutThere reviews the hotel that's a love letter to contemporary Bangkok

3 weeks ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

The Rosewood Bangkok is a sleek, avant-garde and design-forward reverie of Thai metropolitan decadence – a towering promise of sanctuary from the sensory overload of the city’s commercial heart, in all its pulsing, high-octane, neck-craning, vertical concrete, glass and steel jungle glory. Suppose Krung Thep (Bangkok)’s riverside is the Thai capital’s storied sepia-hued history book.
OutThere reviews Santo Mine in Santorini, a Oia retreat for those in the know

3 weeks ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

There is a moment, just before sunset, when the light dips low and the Aegean basks in an otherworldly golden glow, that Santo Mine in Santorini reveals its greatest sleight of hand. While throngs jostle up and along the hillsides in Oia, elbows tangled in selfie sticks and SLRs, we are perched blissfully alone on our terrace, savouring an Assyrtiko and taking in a phenomenal view.
Pride Month Editor's viewpoint: Still here, still queer and still fighting

3 weeks ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

This isn’t your typical Pride Month message. As we enter June, the Experientialist® pauses to ask: what does Pride really mean today? And why is it so important that we celebrate it authentically? In a world where LGBTQ+ rights face renewed challenges and performative allyship is all too common, Pride offers a crucial moment of reflection, resistance and connection.
OutThere reviews the Barthélemois playground of the rich and famous

1 month ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

Eden Rock is unquestionably in reach of Caribbean ‘grande dame’ status but seems however to respectfully decline such pomp, preferring instead to trade on a playful fusion of midcentury seaside vintage vibes with an evolving avant-garde sensibility and, above all, a timeless sense of fun.
Forever boho | Travel inspiration from St. Barts | OutThere magazine

1 month ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

Quick to magnetise the jet-set in its early years, St Barths’ original beacon of utopian high-end hedonism, Eden Rock St Barths, keeps its edge with authenticity, exclusive experiences and an inimitable maverick spirit. Recently, I attended a septuagenarian’s birthday party in the Caribbean. It was quite the affair.
Four Seasons promise more sizzle to your stays this year

1 month ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

When it comes to lavish luxury and immersive experiences, there’s no shortage of hotel groups that are trying to turn the humble art of “staying” into something far more epic. But if any brand has caught our eye this year, it’s The White Lotus (sorry, we couldn’t resist) Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, which are artfully blending already experiential check-ins with more immersive, one-of-a-kind adventures – all to meet the demands of the ever-discerning traveller.
Canal plus | Travel inspiration from Venice, Italy | OutThere magazine

1 month ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

At first glance, the gracious palazzos, labyrinthine streets and winding waterways that made ‘La Serenissima’ the world’s first city-scale immersive art exhibit bewitch just as they have for centuries. But Uwern Jong soon discovers a new, homegrown creative energy that’s remaking the character of ancient Venice. I’ve been beguiled by Venice ever since watching director Nicolas Roeg’s classic 1973 movie Don’t Look Now.
OutThere reviews the SoHo property that's more residence than hotel

1 month ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

Once under the management of the Trump hotel group – though now thoroughly grown up and determinedly distancing itself from that past – The Dominick has come into its own as a quintessentially ‘native New Yorker’ hotel: self-assured and unapologetically cool, if not a touch aloof. More condo/residence than hotel, this towering presence in SoHo offers rare rooftop poolside lounging and enviable square footage, wrapped in an air of confident solitude.
OutThere reviews the luxurious farm estate on everyone's lips

2 months ago | outthere.travel | Uwern Jong

There is a moment – perhaps while walking barefoot through the manicured rows of the garden, or catching the scent of orange blossom when golf-carting towards the mountain, or soaking in a contemporary tin bath tub scented with fynbos oil, or staring out over vines that shimmy like silk in the breeze – when one realises that Babylonstoren is not an ordinary place. It’s hard to call it a hotel, nor is it a farm in the usual muddy-boots sense.