Signed, 224 rooms, a water park — and no opening date. The confirmed facts, and the numbers being copied wrongly.
Announced for the Caribbean, delayed by the crash of 2008 and opened on a Krabi headland in December 2009 — the first Ritz-Carlton Reserve, and the template everyone copied.
Two floors above a private Bangkok garden, and a hard line between the rooms anyone can book and the ones almost nobody can.
Three days of mobility and recovery in the heart of Bangkok, hour by hour — what the programme actually involves, and who it suits.
And the Thai hotels each of them should be booking — from the grand houses of Bangkok to the private pavilions of the Andaman.
Two kinds of evening, and how to tell them apart before you waste one.
The case for the Mae Rim valley, thirty minutes from the old city — and how the pavilions, villas and residences actually differ.