Travel & Leisure


The villas-hotels: between luxury and intimacy

They are more and more to avoid noisy hotels and overcrowded resorts... prefering villa-hotels, which combine a personalised service, comfort, and...silence. Here, it is house in better and a sure escape far from the looks and the crowd. The travel agencies did not missed out this occasion and from now on offer a good way of spending his holiday in family, in couple or in groups. More than a gracious living... Would you be tempted?


Feel like having space ? The Belle Mare Plage


All the comfort and the service of a luxury hotel, but total intimacy and space in addition, it is the promise of the Belle Mare Plage. From 375 to 450 m², villas with private swimming-pools among two golf courses, the lagoon and mauritian coconuts. The key-word? Liberty. Here, the master of the house will make any of your wish come true, and will coordinate the range of services of the hotel, by respecting your space of peace and quiet. Selection of restaurants, of leisures, of isolation, or feel like havinga massage at the Shiseido institute, no doubt, at the Belle Mare Plage the guest is the king at home.

Price: from 2 525 € per person (7 days/5 nights)




Necker Island: On holiday at Richard Branson's! 

When you are called Richard Branson and you have built the Virgin empire, you do not buy a simple hotel on an island... you just buy the island! Then you invite your friends, just to enjoy this lost heaven in the heart of the Carribbeans. Island of the "Happy-Few", the rare guests of Necker Island will have the honour to sign just below the other guests such as : Lady-diRobert de Niro, Steven Spielberg and George Michael, this is about the feeling ...! To stay there, two solutions, for a several people departure, The Great House, based on the mount of a rocky hill, welcomes up to 28 guests, whereas the 5 balinese private houses  will be more fitted for a couple or a single holiday. Then, the days will go on between bath in turquoise sea of Main Beach, catamaran, tennis, diving and  idleness. To end the day, you need to try the  Spa Bali Leha. Anyway, thanks Richard!

Price: "Friends" pack for 14 persons:  140 000 €





Maia: The pearl of the Seychelles

Imagine, thirty luxury and authentic villas delightly splitted on the shore, offering at least a panoramic view of  180° on the glittering sea, and a waterfall swimming-pool. Sometimes, the vision stops on the wild beach and the endless ocean, sometimes it is lost in the landscape of a green nature. In brief, a heaven for nature lovers of who will find here intimacy, extraordinary comfort and a space all dediacted to relaxation. From the La Prairie Spa, true beauty sanctuary to the  pavilion of meditation, and its Yoga and Taï-Chi classes, Maia, daughter of Atlas who Zeus transformed into stars,  is definitely offering the moon...


Price: from1 200 € the night for a villa





A Lord house in  Scotland


Back to Europe, direction the North Sea. At 15 miles from the North of Aberdeen, the Manor of Menie House welcomes all year-long guests who dream of calm, peace, and anonymity. Stars, industrialist but also couples depserate of  nature and intimacy, all this little world appreciates the Lord life in this house, old of 500 years. Long beaches and private dunes , cosy rooms "so bristish" and butlers... One thing is sure: we will soon enjoy the tea-time or get ready for a long day hunting  (30 000 € to plan for the occasion...) Moreover, the possibility for  certain periods to privatize the whole estate and to travel back through centuries for a week-end...

Price: 2 450 €  (2 days/1 night per person)




La Réserve: Paris on the Eiffel Tower side


After Geneva and Ramatuelle, it is now Paris which will have its "Réserve" of apartments. Based on the  Trocadéro place, the 10 private apartments offer a view at least spectacular on the shining Eiffel Tower. Between 150 and 300 m² of technological comfort and contemporary decoration signed Rémi Tessier, the spaces have been cleverly thought: generosity of  volumes and light architecture, nothing has been left to fortune. To finish, the service has definitely nothing to envy to 5 stars : concierge, governess, renowned chief, let us pass the word, in june we will know where to stay in Paris!

Price: 7 000 € the 3 nights, 13 000 € the 7 nights for a 143 m²

Juin 2007

Maia 
with Secrets de Jet Tours
www.secretsdejettours.com
www.maia.com.sc


Necker Island 
Info.: +44 (0) 208 600 0430 ou 01 47 42 83 00.
www.virgin.com/limitededition
VEA Voyages plans packs "Friends" for 14 persons. With flights Paris/Beef Island A/R,  transferts and full board: 140 000 euros for 5 nights at Necker Island

To go there : 
Flights Paris/Antigua via London with British Airways then Antigua/Tortola (airport of Beef Island) with LIAT or Caribbean Star. A fast shuttle insures the connection to Necker Island or Via New York (with Virgin Atlantic) up to San Juan de Porto Rico. Then fly to Beef Island/Tortola and speed-boat to Necker. 
Transferts by helicopter are possible from Necker Island to St Thomas in the American Virgin Islands  (30 minutes flight).


Belle Mare Plage
http://www.bellemareplagehotel.com
Tel.: (230) 415 1083/4/5/6 
With Nosylis
Tel.: 01 53 30 73 00
www.nosylis.com 


Menie House 
At Privilèges Voyage
Tel.: 0811 65 00 45
www.privileges-voyages.com


La Réserve
10 Place du Trocadéro
75116 Paris
www.lareserve-paris.com/fr/paris.php
Tel.: +33 (0)6 75 38 92 99
Opening for June, 1st , 2007