Rooftops

Our contributions to the #Frifotos Theme Rooftops on Twitter

Lantern Bar and the Pool on the Rooftop of the Fullerton Bay Hotel in the Marina Bay Singapore. Taken from Level33 Restaurant.

Infinity Pool on the Rooftop of Marina Bay Sands Singapore

and the View over Singapore from Marina Bay Sands

Sugar Bar on the Rooftop of the East Hotel in Hong Kong

The Infinity Pool on the Rooftop of the Naumi Hotel in Singapore, also a great place for Morning Yoga

Sevva Restaurant Hong Kong, Rooftop Restaurant and Bar, 25th floor, Prince’s building, Chater Rd, Central

The Rooftop of the IFC Mall in Central, Hong Kong

Your travel reading list for the weekend

Some of the best travel stories of the week taken from our Twitter timeline:

• Then and now: The stories behind Southeast Asia’s heritage hotels | CNNGo.com
• RT @DestinAsian_Mag: Our Picks of the Best New Restaurants, Shops, & Bars in Hong Kong
• RT @KathrinBauer: The best city timelapse videos from around the world via @travelettes
• Our friend Yohanes Budiyanto’s top 15 Hotels in Asia
• Fotopedia Magazine — The Golden Light of Myanmar, by Christopher Veenstra
• A New Classic Rises on Bangkok’s Riverfront @TheSiam
• HarperTravel: Who’s looking at Burma? Who isn’t? Aman, Six Senses, the list goes on
• Now Open: @TheSiam Bangkok and Its Private Pool Courtyard Villas – Hotel Chatter
• RT @KoelnFormat: Meine Reise nach Vietnam mit #Emirates – in Instagram
• Robert De Niro and Chef Nobu Matsuhisa Give Details on the First-Ever Nobu Hotel
• Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon
• Futuristic Solar-Powered Floating Resort – My Modern Metropolis
• Wynn Macau – Cafe Encore, the Stay and the Spa by @e_ting

Banyan Tree Samui

Banyan Tree Samui, a photo by TRAVEL4VITALITY on Flickr.

Alila Villas Uluwatu Site Inspection

Some pictures from our site inspection at the wonderful Alila Villas Uluwatu. Unfortunately the weather was not that good.

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Tweet Digest for January 19, 2012

• Top 10 Bars in Hong Kong | Food Republic bit.ly/yGFhKt
• Outlandish Outposts: Aman at Summer Palace, Beijing – Forbes onforb.es/yftbb8
• Best new spas in Hong Kong | CNNGo.comcnngo.com/hong-kong/play…
• The TRAVEL4VITALITY daily is out! bit.ly/mRWjfk
• RT @EmmaDeeNZ: The Great Panda Escape! bit.ly/2G440H – hilarious find @timeouthk!
• RT @AlilaHotels: Dreaming of being pampered at Spa Alila? Check out this image of the spa at Alila Villas Soori ! yfrog.com/oevbrhlj
• RT @Equinox: Does yoga really wreck your body? Our expert responds to the controversial @NYTimes piece: buzz.mw/_Q2ezF#Qblog
• Artikel in New York Times rüttelt Yoga-Welt auf – Yoga Journal – goo.gl/kHFej
• The Yogi’s Playlist – Internet Video Sensation Briohny Smyth shares her favorite songs for an at-home flow.Q by Equinox bit.ly/yqudSJ

 

Places to see: Trekking around Ubud

trekking in Ubud…

What we are reading

some of our favourite travel articles of the last 2 weeks:

• Thomas Marzano reports on his great experience at the Four Seasons Palo Alto using Twitter
• A Luxury Travel Blog checks out the amazing Ananda in the Himalayas
• CNNGo with a nice guide to Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
• Sassy Hong Kong reviews the Alila Villas Soori, Bali
• The Diary of the Purple Passport visits the Yoga Yard in Beijing
• The global blackbook on the Anantara Seminyak Bali
• Insiderei.com: Mini-Shopping mit dem Peninsula Tokyo
• Ecosalon: Alila Villas Uluwatu
• Mapplr reviews the Nam Hai in Hoi An, Vietnam
• Designboom: Touchscreen vending machines in Tokyo
• The Wall Street Journal: An Insider’s Guide to Hong Kong
• A Luxury Travel Blog: the new Hotel de EDGE by Rhombus in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong opening soon
• Luxist: Four Seasons Marrakech opens this summer
• The New York Times reviews the W Retreat and Spa Vieques Island
• The Practical Traveler column at the NYT on how not to get sick from a flight
• The Guardian: Macau, where China likes to spend it
• Der Spiegel: Wellness-Oasen in Großstädten

Places to see: Kiyomizu-dera Kyoto

Kiyomizu-dera is a Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto UNESCO World Heritage site.

What we are reading

some of the best travel  stories we read over the last few days

• ABC News: Restaurants uploading menus on iPads for diners
• The New York Times: 41 places to go in 2011 and 10 restaurants worth a plane ride and 36 hours in Bali
• The Telegraph previews 2011’s best new hotels
• The Independent with its preview
• Melanie Nayer with her list of Top 10 Luxury Hotels to visit in 2011
• Hotel Chatter with the Master List of Worldwide Hotel Openings in 2011
• The always insightful Purple Passport reviews the Opposite House in Beijing and the Anantara Spa at the Commune by the Great Wall
• Sassy Hong Kong with a report on a weekend at the Grand Hyatt Macau
• Cathy Yan in the Wall Street Journal with an excellent 4-part series on the future of Lan Kwai Fong
• Die Welt mit einem Ausblick auf das Reisejahr 2011 und einer Liste neuer Hotels
• The Kiwi Collection blog reviews the Peninsula Tokyo
• CNNGo: Shanghai hotels after the Expo
• Hotel Design blog: URBN Hotel Shanghai
• Just Luxe: Amangalla and Amanwella
• Luxury Travel Advisor: Anantara Golden Triangle
• Mail Online reports on the tourist destination Montenegro
• WSJ Scene Asia: Asia’s best penthouse suites

What we are reading

catching up, some of the most interesting stories we came across over the last, well, 2 months

• Karla Cripps of CNNGo visits the Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi
• The Australian: Aman New Delhi turns one
• CNNGo features six hotel  restaurants with incredible views, including Anantara Seminyak, Amansara and the Datai
• Speaking of the Datai, here is a report over at Sassy Hong Kong
• HK Magazine with an excellent list of the best alfresco bars in Hong Kong
• Huffington Post: Melanie Nayer inside the World’s tallest hotel
• The Independent: 24-hour room service: Alila Diwa, Goa
• A nice collection of first impressions from Hong Kong
• The Hotel Design blog with some gorgeous pictures of Les Suites Orient Bund Shanghai
• CNNGo’s Best Eats awards for 2010 for Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Singapore and Mumbai
• The Guardian explores an important question: Why is outdoor gear so ugly?
• USA Today: How can you tell which TripAdvisor reviews to trust?
• National Geographic Traveler: The Tap Dance of Tipping
• CNNGo: 24 hours at Changi airport