Guests can “buy out” Soneva Fushi’s One Island One Resort starting and USD 100,000++ per night in the Maldives

Maldives is that perfect canvas where the heavens have generously used large paint brushes to splash vast areas of ocean and beach, with solid colours of cerulean blues and whites. And it is in this perfect miraculous artwork, we wholly immersed ourselves during our brief Holi vacation break.

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants has announced that Masque in Mumbai, India, is the 2020 winner of the prestigious Miele One To Watch Award. Selected by the organisers of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants in collaboration with its regional experts, the Miele One To Watch title is presented to a restaurant that is outside the Asia’s 50 Best list, but is identified as a rising star of the region.

Set sail from Soneva Kiri to explore some of Thailand’s most breath-taking beaches. Our new Seven Days, Seven Beaches experience takes you to seven of these unforgettable hidden gems, just a short cruise away.

The Indian festival of Holi signifies the end of winter and the start of spring. It is a day which celebrates the beginning of a good harvest season across India. Soneva invites you to visit with your friends and family to enjoy Holi in the Maldives, on a beautiful sandbank, surrounded by the cerulean waters around Soneva Fushi. Come over with those you love and play holi with safe, vegetable colours amidst peels of laughter and ample happiness.

Cho Hee-sook, a respected authority on traditional Korean cuisine and chef-owner of Hansikgonggan in Seoul, has been named Asia’s Best Female Chef for 2020. Chef Cho will be presented with her award at the ceremony for Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2020, sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna, on Tuesday 24th March in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

What happens when a Chef who very well could be a famous movie star, uses his experiences from working at some of the world’s finest restaurants - Eleven Madison Park , The Modern and Jean Georges - re-interprets the ‘wow’ flavours of globally loved Thai cuisine, by using 21st century techniques to deconstruct dishes, using the freshest and finest of seasonal ingredients to present his diners with culinary art on a plate?

On a recent business trip to Seoul, South Korea, I chose to stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Not only had I heard from friends, that the relatively new glass-and-steel hotel, designed by Su Sin Tao of Singapore, offered guests a perfect blend of luxury and style, but also that the location of the hotel on Seoul’s North Bank, was hard to beat.

On the site of the first Welsh Parliament, stands an Edwardian country house hotel. Llangoed Hall was the last of our stops during a recent summer trip to Wales. Of all the remarkable properties we experienced while in the United Kingdom, Llangoed Hall in Llyswen, Powys, was the best in terms of showcasing an ideal mix of a perfect countryside location, a fine dining restaurant on-site, vast manicured grounds, tasteful interiors and exceptional service.

Last Thursday we dined at Baan, a restaurant located on Bangkok’s Wireless road. When Laveena and I walked in with our mothers, we found the interiors to be rather small, yet modern and unpretentious with concrete floors and marble table tops. I was honestly expecting something a tad more traditional and Thai as I had read t