Month: October 2026
Luxury travel once measured itself in room counts, floor area and the length of a wine list. Across South Africa that measure is shifting. In June, Eat Out reported that chefs around the country are ...
The 2026 Virtuoso Luxe Trend Report notes that food and drink are often the reason a destination is chosen at all. Italy, Japan, Greece, France and Croatia head its list of most requested destinations, each ...
The upper end of the safari market rewards continuity. Lodges that hold their standing year after year tend to share a few traits: small guest numbers, few vehicles on the tracks, and a sense of ...
Time has become the scarcest ingredient at the Cape table. Across the winelands, estates are bringing older vintages out of the cellar and setting them beside the food, so that age sits on the menu ...
Food at Tau Game Lodge followed the rhythm of our safari stay: relaxed when we first arrived, more considered in the evening, hearty in the morning and, by the second night, comfortably informal around the ...
The sundowner has become the quiet ritual of the South African safari. It asks little of the lodge and a great deal of its guides, who must choose a place, judge the light and make ...
Luxury safari is increasingly judged by the person at the wheel. Thread counts and plunge pools are easy to match, while the interpretation of the bush takes years to develop and cannot be bought in ...
Luxury travel is increasingly making the journey part of the experience, particularly when the road from the city to the bush offers something more than simply a means of getting there. The right vehicle can ...
Reinvestment has become one of the more telling signals in South African safari travel. New openings draw attention, but returning guests tend to judge a lodge by what happens after the initial fanfare: whether a ...
Plug-in hybrids have settled into a clear role in the premium SUV market. Owners who spend part of the week in city traffic want to cover it on battery, and for the remainder they want ...
Hotel guides have begun to borrow the discipline of restaurant guides. Inspectors visit anonymously, select independently and judge each stay against a fixed set of criteria. The 2026 MICHELIN Guide hotel selection lists 78 properties ...
