Trash talk: Floating island resort that will be made from Indian Ocean GARBAGE is unveiled The artificial island will be located off the coast of remote Australian territory Cocos (Keeling) Islands It’s called the Recycled Ocean Plastic Resort and could be accepting visitors by 2025 Passing rubbish will be scooped into bags and covered with sand and … Read more
Olivia Newton-John to sell her Byron Bay wellness resort Gaia after it was named global hotel of the year By J. Peterson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:19 BST, 2 April 2021 | Updated: 01:19 BST, 2 April 2021 Olivia Newton-John is selling her famed Gaia retreat in Byron Bay just months after it swept … Read more
Southend is England’s top resort… for dodging rain: Essex town is driest with just eight wet days a month (while Bournemouth gets the most rainfall) Surprising figures show the driest seaside town in England is Southend-on-Sea The resort with the highest amount of rainfall is Bournemouth on Dorset coast Experts think the Essex town could … Read more
Architects have taken the concept of a cosy cabin in the woods to new heights. This chic black-painted cabin near the Salamajarvi National Park in Finland is elevated on a single column, with the idea, say the designers, to help those inside ‘feel immediately detached from everyday worries happening on the ground’. Inside there is … Read more
Once dubbed ‘The Naples of the North’, Morecambe was originally developed during the late 19th century to welcome millworkers from towns and cities in West Yorkshire and beyond. ‘Britain’s most modern and progressive resort’, was how a 1930s tourism poster described it. ‘Morecambe has everything under the sun,’ another claimed. But as package holidays abroad … Read more
Behind the scenes in a Caribbean paradise: BBC Two’s Amazing Hotels show reveals the hard work that goes into creating dream stays at St Lucia’s ‘lost city-style’ Jade Mountain resort Monica Galetti and Giles Coren go behind the scenes at the luxury hotel, where rooms cost up to £2,700pn All 29 rooms have a private … Read more
Behind the scenes in a Caribbean paradise: BBC Two’s Amazing Hotels show reveals the hard work that goes into creating dream stays at St Lucia’s ‘lost city-style’ Jade Mountain resort Monica Galetti and Giles Coren go behind the scenes at the luxury hotel, where rooms cost up to £2,700pn All 29 rooms have a private … Read more
Riding the waves: Daredevils leap over breakers as they send huge ripples along floating bridge at beach resort Footage was captured at the Maliah Beach Club in Zorritos de Tumbes, Peru Pedestrians were filmed launching themselves into the air as ocean waves broke The newly-installed structure is 155 metres long and two metres wide By Raven … Read more
A group of 26 British skiers is in isolation in a French resort after 16 tested positive for Covid. Villagers in the tiny commune of Vallorcine, in the Chamonix Valley, have branded the party ‘irresponsible’ for escaping UK Lockdown to go skiing. The Brits, described as gap-year students who paid £8,900 each for the 10-week … Read more
British husband claims hotel masseuse slept with his wife in TripAdvisor review of five-star Caribbean resort (but is it real?) The man – identified only as Michael – alleged the masseuse ‘seduced’ his wife and ‘spent the night with her’ at the luxury hotel on the Turks and Caicos Islands In a one-star review, he … Read more