I envy millionaires but not for the things they can buy but for the experiences they can live. There are places that only money can take you to and the resorts that are the stars of our post today are a good example.
Spending one night in them costs a lot of money, let alone eat and use all their services. There are no savings that can afford them but they exist and there is a small group of people in the world who can enjoy them. We can at least meet them so mid-winter and already thinking about summer vacations here are three ecological and super luxury resorts.
Panchoran retreat
This resort is in bali, in the middle of the jungle and close to Ubud. Its architecture is inspired by nature and it is one of the most fantastic places from the design because the exterior is almost no different from the interior and that is wonderful. It has also been built with sustainable materials and the complex is made up of six houses that are lost in a bamboo grove.
The property is really huge and belongs to the Irish landscape and interior designer Cute garland. It was, in fact, his own house, until he modified it to become a lodging. Inspired by bamboo, she decided that as much as possible she would do with it, so it is said that the buildings here have much more bamboo than a typical local house since even the floors and the dishes are made of bamboo. There are about 200 species of bamboo and the idea is to promote its use as an alternative wood in architecture and decoration.
The main house, Bale GedeIt has an outdoor dining room and a communal living room that opens onto the forest and is decorated with bamboo chandeliers, for example. Each of the villascalls Waterfall, Coco, Bamboo, River House, rests on a hill of lush vegetation that overlooks a small river. The views are very enjoyable because they have balconies. Some are one bedroom, others three bedrooms and some can accommodate up to 20 people.
The internal decoration follows the shaby chic style so popular these days: a mixture of ancient and modern objects that make the rooms cozy: white Muslim-inspired beds with canopy and mosquito nets, bathrooms that combine porcelain with chrome faucets from the 50s, ceramic pots with local flowers that serve to scare away bugs and mosquitoes (same as flora planted on purpose around villas, Javanese wood paneling ...
In modern terms, each villa has air conditioner and ceiling fans, an equipped kitchen, luxury beds and linens, and a Jacuzzi.
At night countless oil lamps made with coconut are lit and as you can see, the result is so wonderful that right now I start saving money to go ...
Soneva Kiri
This luxury resort is in thailand and it preserves the old air that the country used to have a few decades ago. It is an hour's flight from Bangkok, but private flight. It is located on a dream beach, in a rain forest. It's about a complex of private villas with own pool, electric buggies so your guests don't have to walk a lot and luxury, luxury, luxury.
There are twelve villas altogether, one more beautiful than the other. Some have six bedrooms and look at the sea, others have fewer bedrooms and look at the ecological reserve, others have two or three bedrooms and even the smallest has a single bedroom although it measures no more and no less than 403 square meters. Everybody has open-air baths, dream pools, beach access...
The services offered by the resort are also great. Not missing the spa, obviously, but it adds a outdoor cinema and under the stars named Cinema Paradiso that includes a gourmet dinner, there is also a Observatory, aquatic and underwater activities, the use of a beautiful private beach with white sand and crystal clear waters with sun loungers and umbrellas, palm trees and private service just 10 minutes from the resort by boat, the possibility to dine wherever you want outdoors or use the terrace, the beach, restaurants or the great Treepod Dining: dinner in the treetop!
Wadi Rum Desert Resort
This resort is in the design stage but I include it because I think it is fantastic for the place where it is planned to be built and for its design. It looks like a hotel on the moon, It is not true?
Wadi Rum It is also known by the name of The Valley of the Moon and it is a valley that is about 60 kilometers east of Aqaba, in Jordan. With granite and limestone it is the largest valley in the country and has been inhabited for thousands of years. Some movies have been filmed here known as Lawrence of Arabia, Red Planet, something from Transformers and Prometheus. Its landscapes are fantastic so you can see how great this hotel can be here.
The challenge is great, combining the desert and its sands with the rock to shape a new creation between man and nature. The idea of the architects is to generate a symphony between what the valley offers and human needs, follow nature whenever possible generating the least possible impact. The construction will be on the cliffs because the idea is to appreciate the views of the desert.
The complex will have rooms and residences, a spa, a luxury shopping complex, tents that allow you to appreciate the surroundings, natural ventilation and everything that can help create a comfortable microclimate for guests. The Oppenheim studio is in charge and, after seeing and considering the images, it seems to me that it will be a fantastic hotel, a sample of what accommodation can be on Mars, for example. Can you imagine it?