So you’ve booked some time away, a spot of winter sun. You’ve stocked up on tanning lotion, taken your swimsuits out of storage, and bragged about it just enough to all your friends, but then comes the boring part – the packing. We may be used to seeing pictures of celebrities wheeling entire fleets of monogrammed designer luggage through customs, but that’s just not practical for the rest of us – the airline costs of the extra weight aside, you’d spend the whole flight worrying your expensive case was being ...View more
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Posted by Pip McCormac
January 30th, 2012
If, like me, you’re already planning your next holiday, then why not pencil in The Luxury Travel Fair, in association with Conde Nast Traveller, which will be held at Olympia, London between Nov 3 to Nov 6 2011. The fair plays host to over 100 hotels, travel companies and destinations around the world and you’ll be sure to find travel ideas that are unique, unusual and unforgettable.
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
October 17th, 2011
OK, so we all say that wandering around the Forum in Rome is one of our favourite ever holidays, and that walking holiday in Spain really was lovely, honest, but let's face it, nothing beats a beach. With that confession off our chests, we’re left with where to go? At Original Travel they’ve been lucky enough to see a few incredible contenders, and here are their all time favourites...
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
July 28th, 2011
The Seychelles is a hot destination thanks to our young royals, Wills and Kate, going to the beautiful Indian Ocean isles on their recent honeymoon. 'Good choice,' says holiday experts Original Travel, 'as they’re pretty much the ultimate dream desert islands - more interesting than the glorified sandbanks of the Maldives and more secluded than the one trick island o...View more
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
June 23rd, 2011
Former Sony music exec John Voigtmann (once manager of Christina Aguilera and The Strokes) gave up working with demanding A listers a few years back in order to open La Bandita, an eight-room luxury bolthole in Pienza, Tuscany, with 360-degree views of the scorched Tuscan hills. It features an infinity pool, honesty bar, canopied outdoor dining and unforgettable menu. And we...View more
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Posted by Nina Fitton, Writer, ACHICALiving.com
May 18th, 2011
Wondering where to lay your beach hat and Kindle this summer? These stunning suggestions from award-winning holiday specialist Original Travel will give you some food (and Sangria) for thought. Enjoy...
Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
‘But what about hurricane season?’ I hear the climatologists among you ask. Well yes, technically the hurricane season runs from June, but you’d be monumentally unlucky to be affected any time before August when th...View more
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
May 6th, 2011
Do you ever buy outfits without having somewhere suitable to wear them? It's become a bit of habit of mine. So far this year I've bought an Annie Hall style waistcoat, trousers and tie (yes, really) – perfect for an impromptu trip to New York I thought, but which in reality I’ll have to settle on wearing down to my local pub. I convinced myself I needed some glossy purple Hunter wellies too, so I'll look the part when I go fishing in the country. I have no intention of going fishing in the country. I've also got a Bav...View more
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
May 3rd, 2011
New York’s boutique beauty: This week, ACHICA Living got About Town from Soho to SoHo at Tim and Kit Kemp’s Crosby Street Hotel in New York. Applaud, cheer and delight in it’s gorgeous interior here…
With six super successful hotels in England (including London’s Soho Hotel and View more
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Posted by Nina Fitton, Writer, ACHICALiving.com
April 21st, 2011
Dreaming about a little getaway by the sea? I am. And so I asked award-winning travel and holiday specialist Original Travel to pick April's holiday hot spot. This time, it's sunny Sicily...
‘Great destination, pity about the hotels’ would have been an apt way to describe Sicily, the Mediterranean’s largest island, until recently. But things are changing fast. Rocco Forte – always a man with an eye to a sophisticated destination - opened a swanky hotel here a couple of ...View more
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
February 24th, 2011
Got itchy feet after all that sitting around eating Quality Street at Christmas? To tie in with the launch of ACHICA Travel, with award-winning travel and holiday specialist Original Travel, we asked the experts for a February holiday hot spot. And what a delight to hear about the holiday destination of the month - Borneo. Few destinations have as much to offer as this enormous island, shared between Malaysia and Indonesia and the tiny oil-rich state of Brunei....View more
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Posted by Emily Peck, Editor, ACHICA Living
January 6th, 2011
