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    Cindy Miller Hopkins

    How to pack and stay sane when you travel 200 days a year for work

    Photographer Cindy Miller Hopkins travels from polar regions to steamy island jungles. She shares some of her packing tips – including taking two of everything.

    • Jane Cornwell

    This Month

    Mayfair’s 25-metre lap pool.

    Why young people love London’s newest luxury hotel

    In contrast to its heritage-rich big sister in Hyde Park, the £1000 a night Mandarin Oriental Mayfair is cheekier and more focused on fun.

    • Fiona Carruthers

    The most glam Olympics of all? Parisians are unimpressed

    Plonking games venues among the city’s iconic monuments is an unprecedented experiment that will look grand on TV but its setup in causing street-level chaos.

    • Hans van Leeuwen
    Bambu Indah Bali hotel - New Moon House

    The hippy hotelier upping the ante in Bali luxury

    We’re a lab for showing those greenwashing monkeys in Bali that not everybody wants to spend their holidays in a concrete shell, says John Hardy of his fantastical jungle resort.

    • Ian Neubauer
    Le Gainsbarre (detail, 1980 cover of Rock & Folk shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino).

    Escape the crowds with an intimate tour of a pop legend’s Paris home

    For the first time since his death, the unchanged abode of musician Serge Gainsbourg is open to the public, with his daughter as your guide.

    • Kate Hennessy
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    June

    The Ghan.

    Luxury travellers are swapping planes for trains – here’s why

    Nostalgia for a slower era has travellers returning to rail, and operators are responding by dialling up the glamour.

    • Brook Turner

    The California wine hot spot that locals have only just discovered

    The little-known Santa Ynez Valley behind Santa Barbara offers a delicious mix of ambitious restaurants and small-town vibes.

    • Maria Shollenbarger
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    Alan Joyce’s bonus review in familiar hands

    This being corporate Australia, one doesn’t have to dig deep to find the key players already know one another.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Cap d’Antibes Beach Hotel’s unique selling point is its private, white-sand beach.

    Holiday like Europe’s jetset on the Côte d’Azur

    The ability to step straight onto a private sandy beach is rare in this part of the world, which is why summer is always booked out at this pink-splashed hotel.

    • Tony Davis
     Clive Palmer and Tucker Carlson in Brisbane on Wednesday.

    Clive Palmer’s private jet picks up Tucker Carlson

    The mining billionaire’s plane picked up a pain from Maine.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Private Jet, Cocktail Service

    When in Rome, leave in a private jet: on board a $76.5k group tour

    There’s nothing like having a plane chartered for you to take the stress out of travelling between Europe’s great cities and iconic sites.

    • Bonnie Campbell
    View on St George island from Our Lady of the Rocks through arch. Perast, Montenegro.

    Europe’s wallet-friendly alternative to Lake Como

    This 10-night Mediterranean cruise on a $775-million luxury ship is a great way to discover lesser-known ports.

    • Fiona Carruthers
    The countryside around St Vincent des Landes in Brittany.

    Tea, tarts and tears: My trip to France to honour a secret

    It took one brave family and the silence of an entire town to protect this writer’s mother during the German occupation. This is what happened when she went to meet them.

    • Rose-Anne Manns
    All Bonza aircraft have left the country, but there’s money to be made from the corpse.

    Bonza! Hall Chadwick’s fees draw rebuke from 777 Partners

    Having Hall Chadwick run a hotline is certainly one way to rack up fees.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Debbi Fields and Wade Shealy at the ThirdHome property where they stayed in Possums Creek

    Do you have what it takes to join this exclusive home-swapping club?

    The US-based founder of ThirdHome and his high-flying girlfriend have been in Australia to catch up with well-travelled members, entice new ones and talk to potential partners. To join you need one key asset.

    • Charis Perkins
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    The opulent Grand Suite “Prague” on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.

    Step aboard for an opulent rail journey to Venice – no denim allowed

    The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express sets the standard for glamorous train journeys. Its Paris to Venice overnighter makes for an unforgettable trip.

    • Divya Bala
    Eastern Greenland, Blosseville Coast.  Female polar bear with two young cubs.

    Become a polar explorer, without giving up the luxuries

    Ponant’s icebreaker vessel takes cruise passengers right into the icy Arctic circle.

    • Jane Cornwell

    Chopard jewellers open their first exclusive hotel in Paris

    Guests can enjoy grand surroundings and five-star hospitality above the Scheufele family’s famed watch and jewellery boutique at the prestigious Place Vendôme square.

    • Maria Shollenbarger
    Wedge Mountain Lodge and Spa Whistler

    Live it up like a millionaire in Whistler’s newest luxury lodge

    The Wedge Mountain Lodge & Spa has everything you can dream of and then some. At around $30,000 a night during the peak Christmas/New Year period, this stay is one for the bucket list.

    • Carrie LaFrenz
    The writer in his kayak, paddling solo through the waters off northern Bali.

    Great escapes: Solo kayaking along Bali’s northern coastline

    The writer sets off on an odyssey through tranquil waters in a part of the world that will one day be reclaimed for an international airport.

    • Ian Neubauer