HotelChatter - Tag: Island Resorts

Hamilton Island: Happy Half-Birthday to Hamilton Island's Qualia

amandak — 2008-04-18T09:30:01-05:00

At the top of the list for our must-visits in northern Australia is the Qualia resort on Hamilton Island, off the Queensland coast. Qualia has just celebrated its six month anniversary and the resort has proudly reported back a few statistics from its first half year in business.

Even though the resort isn't entirely complete, what they have there already is running at a 60% occupancy rate, and in such a short time, they're already seeing 10% of their guests returning for a second go.

Castries: Party of Four: St. Lucia Girlfriend Getaway

jennm — 2008-03-28T15:27:26-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/thelandings.jpg"class="imgborder"> With the "Sex and the City" movie right around the corner (it opens May 30), you might be reminiscing about all those Sunday nights in college when you and three of your girlfriends made cosmos, watched the show and the spent the remainder of the evening debating who was the real-life Carrie in your little clan. Lucky for you, you don't need to just reminisce, now that you're older and (hypothetically) can afford to live the glamorous lifestyle upheld by the show. Gather up the BFFs for a getaway to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Landings+at+St.+Lucia/local/1165">The Landings St. Lucia</a>, A RockResort, with the property's "Girls Rock" package. Available through December 19, it includes accommodations in a two-bedroom suite; a one-hour

Queensland: Now Open for Business: Hamilton Island's Qualia

amandak — 2008-02-01T11:40:58-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/QualiaView.jpg" class="imgborder"> Last time we checked in at what might just be the best place to stay in Australia, the luxurious and exclusive <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Qualia/local/742">Qualia</a> resort on Hamilton Island, off the Queensland coast, they were due to open up any day. Now Qualia has been running a few months we thought we should check in on how the luxury's actually turned out.And the answer is: from all accounts, very, very good. A recent write-up in The Australian from Susan Kurosawa, one of Australia's most well-known travel writers, was full of praise. And that's despite the fact that some of the resort is still under construction--she said that this has been so well-managed, you never feel like you're staying somewhere

Yasawa Island: Cubicle Dreamin': Happy Birthday Yasawa Island

amandak — 2007-10-26T09:40:30-05:00

<![CDATA[ Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>. In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> celebrates a milestone, not hers, in Fiji. Enjoy.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/YasawaIslandResortFiji.jpg" class="imgborder"> I love celebrating birthdays, and I don't really care whose birthday

Haggerstone Island: Cubicle Dreamin': Rent-An-Island Off Queensland

amandak — 2007-10-12T09:15:02-05:00

<![CDATA[ Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>. In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/amandak/stories">Amanda K</a> takes over her own island. Enjoy.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/HaggerstoneIsland.jpg" class="imgborder"> A really special part of Australia is the islands off the Queensland coast.