• Win a chance to dine on a luxurious Concorde this Valentine’s Day

    Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and waste a second we must not. So, gear up and stat bidding via email from $800 and you can win the chance to have a romantic dinner on board a stationary Concorde. The idea was whipped up by British Airways where a lucky pair will get a royal treatment, red carpet and gourmet dinner and the likes, aboard the GBOAC aircraft. If your heart is as big as this excitement, you will be...

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    by shilpa, posted February 9, 2012 - 8:07 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • A $100,000 around-the-world trip gets sold in 13 seconds in China

    China sure loves luxury, and it's getting its share of special treatment too. And now the Chinese luxury lovers wish to take a guided tour of the world too, as a 66-day around-the-world tour got sold out in 13 seconds flat after the reservation hotline was thrown open. Priced at RMB 660,000 (US$104,654), the tips organised by Ctrip.com, one of China’s biggest online travel agencies has only 11 people onboard, as the 12th didn’t want to share accommodations....

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    by kamakshi, posted February 8, 2012 - 4:56 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Ripley's London museum welcomes a knitted Ferrari, pushes crystal-encrusted Mini Cooper out

    What can you replace with a Swarovski crystal-encrusted Mini Cooper to create a flutter around the world? Well a hand-knitted Ferrari! At least that what happened at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum at London’s West End. The £1m Mini pulled out of a smoke duct of the five-storey building at Piccadilly, will now be seen at the Ripley’s museum at Baltimore, USA. Knit by British artist Lauren Porter, the car took 10 months in the making with...

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    by kamakshi, posted February 6, 2012 - 6:27 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Charter a private jet to watch the Super Bowl XLVI

    The Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis is all set to witness the clash of the NFL titans as New England Patriots and New York Giants ready to face each other on February 5th in Super Bowl XLVI. While Super Bowl fans have already booked their tickets and are on their way to witness this exciting game, the luxury lovers have an option to travel to this game in style, courtesy Magellan Jets....

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    by namrata, posted February 1, 2012 - 9:12 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • The home made from shredded notes worth 1.4 billion Euros

    Expensive as it may sound, sculpting art from dollar bills isn’t all that new. We’ve come across art exhibits made from hard cash before, and this isn’t where the extraordinary uses of dollars end. Sheets of bills have been used to wrap gifts too, and this time, we’ve stumbled across an entire home built from shredded money! By Irish artist Frank Buckley, this home was built from 1.4 billion Euros worth of shredded notes, making it a one-of-a-kind money-drenched...

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    by gavril, posted January 30, 2012 - 6:01 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Louis Vuitton plans the next Maisons boutique in Rome along with a film project in the background

    Fashion and movies go hand in hand, and Louis Vuitton seems to understand the fact quite well. This explains their three-year partnership with Italy’s oldest film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Italian National film school). The move will enable Louis Vuitton’s to cast their magic spell on Italian cinematographers, set designers and costumers. The brand is said to "assist in the formation of an honors committee composed of key figures in cinema; the tutoring of young talents enrolled at...

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    by kamakshi, posted January 27, 2012 - 6:08 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Vytopna Restaurant, Prague serves drinks on a $780,000 model train

    The Vytopna Restaurant in Prague has found an interesting way to promote two most essential things that Czech republic is known for, tourism and alcohol. Located at the heart of Wenceslas Square, the restraint serves palatable food and reasonable rates, but that's not the only thing you should go there for. The owners have installed a huge £500,000 worth 400 meters miniature railway that stops at every table. The tracks pass through tunnels, over drawbridges, sculptured rock formations, woods,...

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    by kamakshi, posted January 25, 2012 - 5:36 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Prada launches 24 h Museum in Paris

    Prada 24h Museum is a one-of-a-kind museum designed by Francesco Vezzoli with AMO that opens in Paris today for 24 hours only, till Wednesday 25 January in the Palais d’lena. The ‘24h Museum’ is divided in to three sections, each embracing a particular type of museum space- historic, contemporary and forgotten. The central space is encased in a large metal cage made from grills and neon lights that features the work of FrancescoVezzoli, while the three sections conjure to...

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    by shubha, posted January 24, 2012 - 7:55 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Mustang Ranch is the most luxurious whorehouse in the USA

    One can view this as an austere attempt to turn the most ill-reputed and oldest profession called prostitution into a classy affair of sorts. A legal brothel has been built near Reno, Nevada and it has been recreated to offer modern day luxury such as cabaret with live entertainment, fully equipped spa, and 10 deluxe suites. The idea was conceived by life-partners and business partners Lance Gilman and Susan Austin who are working to turn the Mustang Ranch Brothel...

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    by shubha, posted January 20, 2012 - 6:26 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Hennessy unveils limited edition Beauté du Siècle at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

    Airports seem to be a nice place to shop for some classy spirits, and Hennessy has made sure that your wait at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is worth your time. The retail store has unveiled limited edition Beauté du Siècle at its Finest Spirits & Cigars store. The edition was made to mark Kilian Hennessy's birth centenary. Priced at €150,000 ($190,890) the cognac has been described as “a very precious Cognac in a precious chest”....

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    by kamakshi, posted January 17, 2012 - 5:56 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • The new MB&F M.A.D. Gallery will drive you crazy

    MB&F has sometimes charmed and sometimes shocked us with their innovative watch designs. If you haven’t had an opportunity to see them all at once, then the nice guys back there have decided to make that dream come true! With the Geneva watch fair just around the corner, the brand is not launching a new Machine, but a watch gallery. Where you ask? Just follow your nose to the heart of Geneva and the MB&F M.A.D.Gallery is right there!...

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    by kamakshi, posted January 13, 2012 - 5:52 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Selfridges sells wine for £1 a sip at the Wonder Bar

    Have you ever had the urge for a sip of wine, but have to let go because 125ml, 175ml and 250ml glasses seem too much? Well, if you live in London, you have a reason to rejoice as a wine stewardess has successfully convinced "ministers to scrap "crazy" laws that barred bars and restaurants from selling it "by the sip"." After five long years, Selfridges' Dawn Davies won her battles after being barred from offering top vintages in small...

    by kamakshi, posted January 12, 2012 - 4:18 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Peninsula Hong Kong offers Sky High Champagne Breakfast topped with a helicopter ride

    Peninsula Hong Kong is offering one-of-a-kind luxe brunch deal wherein after a sumptuous brunch their guests get to enjoy an exhilarating eight-minute helicopter ride. Hailed as the Sky high Champagne Breakfast, this sky-ride combined brunch is being offered in partnership with its sister concern Heliservice. The guests get to enjoy their brunch in special aviation themed lounge post which they board an Aerospatiale twin-engine Squirrel AS355N and fly high above the heart of Hong Kong. The sky-ride bestows upon...

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    by bree, posted January 11, 2012 - 4:09 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • World’s most expensive tea is cultivated using Panda poo

    This case shows considerable similarity to that of Kopi Luwak, the most expensive coffee in the world. A very confident Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi who actually happens to be an amateur at tea harvesting, is convinced that he has found the key ingredient to produce the world’s most expensive tea -- panda dung. The 41-year old calligraphy teacher has left his old job at Sichuan University to pursue his new project that he is so passionate about. He has...

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    by shubha, posted January 10, 2012 - 5:25 AM in Travel| Comments ()

  • Custom 1960 Cadillac Coupe rides lower than ever

    Cadillacs of the past were long, seriously long, and had tailfins that put sharks to shame. Take this custom 1960 Cadillac convertible for instance. Longer than the rest and making a Batmobile look dull with those tailfins, the builder of this ride took the original 1960 Coupe, sliced it into a thousand pieces, and put it all back together adding extra meat to the fenders, and adding a new hood, while heightening the tailfins further. Popping on huge 22” wheels...

    by gavril, posted January 3, 2012 - 12:32 PM in Travel| Comments ()

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