Guest Traveller Lisa Ludvigson, owner of Byron Bay-based eco beauty brand Green Foot Mama needed a break earlier this year after bush fires came worryingly close to her home in NSW's Northern Rivers region. Her partner, who had been away working in London at the time, offered her a spa weekend to calm this normally-chilled working-mum's frayed ...
Venice & Corfu with Grand Designs’ Peter Maddison, Open House Melbourne Ambassador
Venice, Italy. "I travel a lot, taking around 60 flights every year, mostly up and down the eastern seaboard. I am very fortunate that every two years, I get to make a pilgrimage to Venice, Italy, for the world’s leading exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. I go there to see what's happening in the world of architecture and bump ...
Finding rare moments of tranquility… and retail therapy!
Have you seen the 2003 movie “Lost in Translation”, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson? If you have, you’ll recall their characters, Bob and Charlotte, stay and meet each other at the Park Hyatt Tokyo. Well, in this week's Ask The Concierge, we were treated to an insider's guide to Tokyo by the Chief Concierge of ...
Park Hyatt Tokyo, Japan
Chief Concierge Adrian Fautt of Park Hyatt Tokyo grew up in Los Angeles, California, and has lived in Japan for 27 years. He has worked as a concierge at the Park Hyatt Tokyo since the property opened. The hotel occupies the top 14 floors of a 52-storey tower, giving guests a 360-degree view of the city and Mount Fuji. If you're familiar with the ...
Guest Traveller: Sicily, Italy
Guest Traveller Suzanne Johnston turned her hobby into a holiday in May this year when she embarked on a 16-day historical and cultural tour of Sicily, for beginners and advanced painters, with Paesano Painting Tours. Suzanne was one of 16 artists to benefit throughout the intensive painting workshop from the tutelage of award-winning artist and author Ev Hales, a very talented water-colourist. ...