FOOD TRUCKS PARKED ON LUXE HOTEL GROUNDS
Luxury hotels, the likes of Ritz-Carlton, Auberge Saint-Antoine, Setai Hotel, and the SLS Hotel, have decided to park food trucks on their premises to promote gourmet fast food by their top chefs. The blog PSFK overs a round-up explaining the hotels want to draw in hungry guests and visitors that prefer their Michelin-starred bites in a more relaxed atmosphere. Perhaps guests want a change of scenery or a less relaxed setting that room service generally offers. In addition to the food trucks lining the streets of New York and other foodie cities, you can now check-in and check out these luxe hotel-based food trucks: – Celebrity chef Jose Andres has […]
MALDIVES 2015: GOLF ON FLOATING ISLAND
On March 27, the first 9-hole course is to open in the Maldives at Shangri-La’s Villingili Resort and Spa. The majority of the holes are par three and average 123 yards — the entire course is built on 7.5 hectares. Although this is currently the first golf course in the Maldives, there is a plan for a $500 million floating island with golf course to be completed by 2015, reports the blox Luxuo. And “according to the plans, golfers would be able to hop on a speedboat to get to the proposed site, which features 27 holes spread across three islands, all connected by underwater tunnels.”