Luxury Travel Intelligence has named The Bürgenstock Hotel as one of the world's best new hotel openings for 2017. It is located on the Bürgenberg mountain ridge offering views of the Swiss alps 500m above Lake Lucerne. Luxury Travel Intelligence said: The Bürgenstock Resort, perched 2,800 feet above Lake Lucerne, opened in August after nine years ...

Cheese+Fromage offers a plethora of Grower Champagnes from across France that each have a storied history attached to them. Indeed, you can savour this luxurious beverage in congenial company by attending the Champagne & Cheese Tasting Experience at their Covent Garden branch.​ The host Marc introduces himself as somebody who likes to talk a lo...

The ICEHOTEL opened for its annual season in December on the riverbank in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. This is the 28th rendition of ICEHOTEL and 36 artists from 17 different countries have created 15 art suites, a main hall and a special ice ceremony hall. There is also an ice bar, ice chapel and ice gallery. Everything, including the artwork, can only be...

Scotland is thought to have around 3000 standing castles, ruins and documented sites. Of these, about 1050 are merely sites, including those where a house has been built on the site of a previous castle and about 825 are standing ruins. Around 660 are in use as a private house, hotel or wedding venue and around 469 are open to the public, though so...

This winter passengers can follow the great Arctic adventurers and set sail aboard the Arctic Explorer in Northern Sweden, an icebreaker vessel that can cut through ice fifty centimetres thick, before walking on the frozen sea and taking a dip in the sea to complete this unforgettable Arctic adventure. Offered for the first time this winter by Off ...

​ Venice during carnevale sees citizens, together with thousands of visitors from around the globe, take to the streets dressed in elaborate, fantastically masked costumes, providing one of Europe's most visually stunning event. The Venice Carnival always takes place during the ten days leading up to Shrove Tuesday. Carnival, being a pre-Lent festi...