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STAY > The Villa Nene-no-Michi Kazeno Heritage, Kyoto (16/20)

On the stone-paved Nene-no-Michi, between Kōdai-ji and the Yasaka Pagoda, a former culinary ryokan has become three private suites. The Villa Nene-no-Michi Kazeno Heritage, until April 2026 the Nene building of HOTEL VMG RESORT KYOTO, is the rare Higashiyama stay where the old town is on your doorstep and almost none of its noise comes…

ByCrispinNovember 7, 20260Comments

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STAY > Capella Sydney, Sydney (19/20)

A century-old sandstone landmark in the Sandstone Precinct, steps from Circular Quay, Capella Sydney has turned the former Department of Education into the city's most composed luxury hotel: heritage bones, a light-filled heart and service that seems to know what you want a moment before you do. an edwardian baroque civic monument, reawakened as the…

ByCrispinOctober 20, 20260Comments

ALMANAK Magazine Review > IDLE Lakes Entrance (18/20)

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STAY > Idle Lake House, Lakes Entrance Victoria (18/20)

A beautifully reimagined floating retreat on the Gippsland Lakes, Idle Lake House turns a night away into a proper change of pace: salt air, lake light, vintage design and nowhere at all to be in a hurry. a retro-californian floating stay where the lake becomes the landscape, soundtrack and reason to linger AMBIENCE >…

ByCrispinSeptember 26, 20260Comments

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STAY > Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Victoria (17/20)

Perched on the limestone cliffs above Port Phillip Bay, Hotel Sorrento is the Mornington Peninsula's oldest hotel and its most enduring symbol of coastal glamour — a family-owned 1872 landmark that has just closed out a multi-year redevelopment without losing the salt-worn soul that made it famous in the first place. a place to stay…

ByCrispinSeptember 2, 20260Comments

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STAY > QUALIA, Hamilton Island, Queensland (19/20)

Qualia on Hamilton Island remains the benchmark for barefoot Australian luxury, adults-only, 60-pavilion resort on the Great Barrier Reef where privacy, understated design and genuine sense of place outweigh any single showpiece amenity. AMBIENCE > Qualia occupies the secluded northern tip of Hamilton Island, set within roughly 30 acres of tropical gardens above the Coral…

ByCrispinJuly 12, 20260Comments

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STAY > The Clift Royal Sonesta, San Francisco (17/20)

The Clift Royal Sonesta San Francisco is a century-old grande dame that has reinvented itself as a polished, design‑forward base camp a block from Union Square – equal parts historic theater district icon and contemporary city crash pad. For ALMANAK’s readers, it hits that sweet spot between character and comfort: a lobby that still nods…

ByCrispinJune 14, 20260Comments

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STAY > HOTEL PUBLIC, New York (17/20)

New York is a city of infinite choice but when one of the choices is a place that a lower east side base to work and party, then Ian Schrager has made the perfect hotel for you. Hotel PUBLIC is more than a hotel it is a party base on the Lower East Side AMBIENCE…

ByCrispinJune 7, 20260Comments

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STAY > Fairmont Hotel, Tokyo (18/20)

Fairmont Tokyo is a polished new arrival on Tokyo Bay: a vertical, glass‑wrapped refuge that delivers classic Fairmont theatre with a distinctly Japanese sense of restraint and ritual. It is also the brand’s long‑anticipated debut in Japan, perched high above Shibaura with big‑screen views of Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge and the working harbour below. Tokyo…

ByCrispinMay 25, 20260Comments

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STAY > Luxury Hotel Sowaka, Kyoto (18/20)

Luxury Hotel Sowaka is Kyoto distilled: a quietly opulent machiya hideaway that feels more like a cultivated private residence than a hotel, yet sits steps from Yasaka Shrine and the lantern-lit lanes of Gion Luxury Hotel Sowaka in Gion is just the place to relax in Kyoto AMBIENCE > Slip through the noren at Sowaka…

ByCrispinMay 3, 20260Comments

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STAY > LOMANI ISLAND RESORT, Mololo Fiji (15/20)

Lomani Island Resort & Spa is an adults-only Mamanuca escape that feels purpose-built for couples who want barefoot Fiji with just enough polish, and a blissful buffer from the family chaos next door at Plantation. Lomani Island Resort is Fiji’s Adults Only calm and relaxing alternative AMBIENCE > Lomani means “love” in Fijian, and that…

ByCrispinApril 6, 20260Comments