Aircraft:  Airbus A350-900 Route:  Hong Kong (HKG) – Munich (MUC) Flight No.:  CX301 Date Flown:  September 23, 2025 Seat:  21G Cabin:  Business Class Cathay Pacific’s long-haul network has steadily rebounded, and its newly launched Hong Kong–Munich route  marks another step in the carrier’s quiet European expansion. I boarded CX301  on September 30, just one day before Typhoon Ragasa would force Hong Kong International Airport into a rare two-day standstill. We flew with Cat

BANGKOK Bangkok is a city of extremes — frenetic, dazzling, often overwhelming — where skyscrapers cast shadows over gilded temples and street food stalls compete with Michelin stars. To find serenity in the middle of it all feels almost impossible. And yet, tucked discreetly along Sathorn Road, there is a place that has been offering exactly that for more than three decades: The Sukhothai Bangkok , a proud member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World . Since opening in 1991, T

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SALZBURG CSP Times checks into Rosewood Schloss Fuschl, a storybook escape set on the glassy shores of an Austrian lake. We arrived via Cathay Pacific’s new direct service to Munich — now flying four times weekly — spending two nights at the elegant Rosewood Munich before a scenic two-hour drive delivered us to the fairytale tranquillity of Schloss Fuschl. All images are courtesy of Faye Bradley | CSP Times. I can’t. I won’t. It’s seven in the morning, eight degrees Celsius

There’s a magnetic duality to Samantha Michelle — equal parts downtown cool and cinematic soul. A New York–based DJ, music producer, and filmmaker, she’s built a world where rhythm meets ritual, spinning sets that feel less like performances and more like portals. From Glastonbury to Cannes, and residencies for Dolce & Gabbana and The Wall Street Journal , her soundscapes have drawn the kind of crowds who move for both the music and the moment. We sat down with her to learn h

HONG KONG Hong Kong's art scene has remained underrated for far too long. A look into this compiled list of artists who have drawn from their own personal heritage or travels to Hong Kong will expose you to a whole new hidden world where art continues to interact with the way in which we contact ancestral pasts and document the transient present. 1) Staunton & Henry: Mid Century Modern Mixed Media 3D Wall Art Set (Set of A or B) Add depth and texture to your walls with this c

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MUNICH Munich is a city of contrasts: biergartens and BMWs, rococo churches and cutting-edge galleries. It’s fitting, then, that Rosewood’s first German property occupies two of the Bavarian capital’s most storied addresses — a former aristocratic residence, Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, and the onetime headquarters of the Bavarian State Bank. Just steps from Marienplatz, the city’s historic square, Rosewood Munich strikes an elegant balance between baroque splendour and the kind

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