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☕️ 10 minute read Inside Gaya Island Resort conservation work in Sabah, where luxury and responsibility are not opposites – they are, at their best, inseparable. Conservation here is not a feature. It is the foundation. And this is the…

☕️ 8 minute read Rainforest behind. South China Sea in front. And a resort in Sabah that reminded me why the best journeys change more than just your postcode. Full disclosure: I’m a YTL person. Pangkor Laut Resort has had…

☕ 8 minute read A Stay at Hyatt Centric Kota Kinabalu Changed How I See This City I first came to Kota Kinabalu in 1992. I was here for work, staying at the Hyatt Regency, back when Wisma Merdeka was…

I lived in a five-star suite for months. I have never felt more uncomfortable in my life. Life, in the way that life sometimes does, took me to Chennai, in India. I didn’t plan it. I wasn’t chasing an adventure…

Learning to travel light in the heavy world Picture this: A cramped train station in Tokyo. Two boys, aged 10 and 14, huffing and puffing as they drag wheeled suitcases up what feels like the hundredth flight of stairs. Sweat…

Palangi Beach Resort & Spa – A Luxury Beachfront Stay Checking in, switching off…. The best part about checking into a resort on your own? Nobody questions why you’re having a second glass of Prosecco at 10 am, why you’ve…

Almost twenty years later… Almost twenty years ago, I first came to Bon Ton Langkawi for a friend’s wedding. The ceremony was intimate, held right there in Laguna, a house that was already over a century old even then. I…

Shangri-La Rasa Sayang Penang – A Return After 13 Years Over a decade ago, I read about a European couple in a magazine. They’d escape winter by spending six months – half the year at Shangri-La Rasa Sayang in Penang….

I walked into the E&O Hotel Penang on a humid afternoon, and the first thing I heard was the sound of my own heels on marble. That echo stopped me mid-stride. It’s the kind of sound you hear in old…

What happens when you stop letting algorithm decide where you should go The travel algorithm problem is simple: your feed shows you the same ten beaches everyone else is seeing. The same infinity pools. The same sunset spots. The same…