INTERVIEW Best known for shaping some of Asia’s most quietly distinctive luxury hotels, Lillian Wu has built a career on restraint, proportion, and a belief that true luxury is felt rather than declared. Her portfolio spans acclaimed hospitality projects, including Rosewood Bangkok, Rosewood Hotel Georgia, and the World No 1 hotel, Rosewood Hong Kong, where she has refined a design language rooted in material honesty and spatial calm. Now, with PAVILIA ROSA, Wu turns that sen

HONG KONG Tucked into the cliffs of Wong Chuk Hang on Hong Kong's Southside, The Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel Hong Kong is the brand's first property in the city and its first-ever resort concept worldwide. It's a hotel built around one simple promise: every one of its 425 rooms looks out over the South China Sea. Add an infinity pool, a genuinely excellent spa, two kids' zones, and direct access to Ocean Park and Water World, and you have a resort that works equally well for a

ANTWERP Along the pavements of Theaterbuurt, Antwerp’s Latin Quarter, a cacophony unravels. Assistants fiddle with displays in the storefronts of avant-garde designers, pedestrians click their shoes across busy crossings, and outside independent cafes, baristas unstack chairs in preparation for the day ahead. Then the car diverts left. The urban scenery disappears, leaving a hedge-lined driveway, flanked by the 15th-century frame of a former monastery in its stead. Botanic Sa

HONG KONG The Star Ferry has been operating across Hong Kong’s piers for 128 years. Undeniably, it’s become a symbol of the city and its maritime history. It has stood the test of time over the years — from riots to financial woes — and managed to stay afloat. While we can’t stay overnight at the Star Ferry, there is an experience close to that. Welcome, The Fleming, an urban boutique hotel in Wan Chai with a design that echoes, or recreates rather, the charm of the iconic St

INTERVIEW Luxury travel is often measured in thread counts, Michelin stars and infinity pools, but for me, it's the people behind each property who leave the greatest impression. Here, I share the hotels that have shaped my travels, what defines truly memorable luxury, and the destinations that continue to inspire my next adventure. All images courtesy of Rey Cheng (@findmyrey). THE HOME AWAY FROM HOME Capella Bangkok I left Capella Bangkok feeling so deeply and genuinely car

HONG KONG The JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong has long stood as one of its most enduring symbols of five-star hospitality. Opened on 27 February 1989, it holds the distinction of being the first Marriott International property in the entire Asia-Pacific region — a milestone that speaks volumes about both Hong Kong's global stature and the brand's confidence in this storied metropolis. Image courtesy of Adam Thompson | CSP Times More than three decades on, the JW Marriott has not

SYDNEY Set in the heart of Western Sydney, Pullman Sydney Penrith offers a contemporary five-star stay that blends upscale comfort with the region's growing appeal as a business and leisure destination. As the region's first international five-star hotel, Pullman Sydney Penrith combines sophisticated accommodation, premium facilities, and an unbeatable location. Image courtesy of Pullman Location Perfectly positioned in the heart of Penrith, Pullman Sydney Penrith places gues

INTERVIEW In an era when luxury hotels increasingly resemble one another — same marble lobbies, same scented candles, same carefully calibrated version of global chic — A Curious Group of Hotels has taken a different path. Its collection spans a literary hideaway on Paris's Left Bank, a canal-side mansion in Amsterdam, an eccentric Notting Hill institution and a seaside retreat in Brighton, united less by branding than by personality. Two of its properties — Canal House in Am

HONG KONG Hong Kong has always occupied a unique position in the wellness world — a city where a five-star hotel breakfast can be followed by a TCM consultation and a gua sha treatment before noon. Here's where you can get the best of both. Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong Built into the International Finance Centre in Central, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong connects directly to ifc mall, Hong Kong Station, and the Airport Express, and houses ten restaurants carrying a combined sev

HOI AN There is a moment, somewhere between the airport and the resort, when Vietnam's central coast begins to rearrange your nervous system. The road from Da Nang skims the edge of the South China Sea — the Vietnamese call it the Đông Biển, the East Sea — and the light arrives differently here than it does almost anywhere else. It is wide and golden and older than the traffic. By the time the car turns off the coastal highway and glides through the gates of Four Seasons Reso

HONG KONG Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, Hong Kong reopened on 1 June 2026, marking a defining new chapter for one of Central’s most established luxury hotels. Set within the evolving LANDMARK complex as part of the broader “Tomorrow’s CENTRAL” redevelopment, the refreshed property introduces a more residential, design-led expression of contemporary hospitality, while retaining its position as a key culinary and lifestyle destination in the city. The guest journey begins at

MACAU Step off the ferry at Taipa and the Cotai Strip makes its intentions clear immediately. The reclaimed land connecting Taipa to Coloane hosts some of the largest and most extravagantly styled hotels on earth, and the drive to W Macau – Studio City gives you a decent preview of the competition. W's own tower, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, arrives looking relatively composed by comparison — curvaceous, purposeful, and unbothered by its more baroque neighbours. Whether

CSP Times checks into Kimpton Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, the largest global property in the Kimpton portfolio. The brand’s first hotel in the city is strategically located in the vibrant Tsim Sha Tsui neighbourhood.

MACAU At a time when Macau's dining scene is more competitive and internationally minded than ever, standing out requires more than technical excellence — it demands a clear point of view. At Lakeview Palace, Executive Chef Kevin Zhu has found his by reimagining the culinary traditions of Jiangnan through a distinctly modern lens. Launching this June at Wynn Palace, Zhu's new menu draws inspiration from the rivers, lakes and rich culinary heritage of eastern China's Jiangnan

HONG KONG For sushi chefs and seafood aficionados alike, few ingredients command the reverence of premium tuna. At Nobu Hong Kong, the prized fish is taking centre stage throughout June with the launch of its Tuna Premium Omakase, a seasonal menu designed to showcase the ingredient at its finest. The limited-time experience arrives during one of the most coveted periods of the year for tuna. Sourced from Shizuoka, the fish are at their largest and most active during the early

HONG KONG Cordis is a younger, artier sister brand of old-world luxury kingpin Langham – inaugurated in 2015 when its Langham Place, Mongkok property was reborn. Since then, six more addresses have popped up across mainland China, and one in Auckland, and with five further Chinese properties in development, Cordis (that’s “heart in Latin”) is clearly on the up. However it all started here in Hong Kong – where we checked in for a celebratory staycation. Art, Art, Everywhere “

CSP Times checks into The Royal Garden Kowloon East, a newly opened hotel in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. Touted as the “new landmark of Kowloon East,” the hotel is a refined transformation of the former Crowne Plaza Kowloon East.

HONG KONG Nowhere in Hong Kong has a higher confluence of luxury hotels than the throbbing heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, which makes both standards and competition high. Yet The Langham, Hong Kong really doesn’t need to try and stand out – open on Peking Road since 1989, it’s one of the city’s luxury OGs. Its reputation, of course, is unassailable – when the original The Langham opened in 1865 it was hailed as both London’s largest and Europe’s first “grand hotel”. So naturally we

SINGAPORE In a city that has made a sport of building luxury hotels, the Four Seasons Singapore on Orchard Boulevard has been doing it quietly and correctly since 1994. It doesn't chase trends or compete on spectacle. What it offers instead is a kind of disciplined excellence — the sort that reveals itself not in grand gestures but in whether your morning coffee arrives at exactly the temperature you requested, and whether it does so every single morning. After a substantial

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with living in Hong Kong. It is not just the long hours or the humidity – it is the relentless hum of the city, the way your shoulders creep toward your ears without you noticing, the vague sense that your qi (if you believe in that sort of thing) is a little topsy turvy. I arrived at the Four Seasons Hong Kong spa feeling a little under the weather. Not unwell enough to cancel, but decidedly off. Stuffy. Foggy. The kind of