Where to go, where to go? A few off the wall ideas for luxury travel destinations.
Kangaroo Island
If you have never heard of Kangaroo Island and thought Australia was all about the Great Barrier Reef and Ayers Rock think again. For many years the locals have known that Kangaroo Island, located 13km off the South Australia mainland, is a haven for wildlife thanks to the island’s isolation from the mainland’s introduced pests. Now Kangaroo Island getting better known internationally and earning tags such as “Galapagos of the South Pacific” or the “zoo without fences”.
Luxury Destination – Kangaroo Island
Rajasthan – Luxury Hotels
Rajasthan’s history is all about class, great wealth and deep poverty. Rajasthan, India has never got with the communist agenda: or even the modern welfare state as practiced in Western Europe. No Rajasthan was always a princely state and the Princes in some cases still live in the Palaces or more often part of them and rent out the rest as luxury hotels
Luxury Cruises Cunard Queens
The Queen is dead, long live the Queen. Again. Things appear to have turned full circle for large luxury cruise liners. Luxury liners are back in fashion and just keep on getting bigger and more luxurious.
The luxury liner market slumped in the 1960’s when the world turned to the glamour new form of travel: aeroplanes. That was widely expected to be the end of the ocean liner. When Cunard’s Queen Mary was retired from the trans-Atlantic run in the late 1960’s it was sold to the city of Long Beach £1,230,000, where today it serves as a museum, hotel and conference centre.
Luxury Rail Cruises in Australia
True luxury comes to the Australian outback. Great Southern Railways launches “the Southern Spirit – luxury rail cruises”
The Great Southern Rail is launching its new Platinum level Service on The Ghan rail service. The Ghan has connected Adelaide with Darwin for a number of years but the new Platinum service really takes this train journey into a level of……….
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