The sassy COMO Hotels and Resorts is renowned for opening jaw-dropping retreats in exotic locales, and they have done it again with the latest addition to their glamorous portfolio, Point Yamu by COMO. Here it is all about location, location, location, a unique contemporary Thai design, and simply outstanding food, and when combined with the warm Thai service it delivers one of Phuket’s freshest and most wonderful hotel experiences.

Aman’s newest resort, Amanoi in Vietnam, was one of the most hotly anticipated hotel openings in 2013 and with the doors recently thrown open the team at Seven Skies hot-footed it to this remote and rarely visited corner of Vietnam in January to experience it first-hand.

The land of fire and ice, Iceland, just got a whole lot hotter with the recent opening of Ion Luxury Adventure Hotel. Set against a backdrop of moss covered lava fields and located close to UNESCO World Heritage Listed Thingveller National Park, this Icelandic beauty is a great new addition to the Iceland hotel scene. Savour a few nights here as part of our Seven Skies’ Iceland experience.

Kandy, Sri Lanka’s cultural heart, has long been one of our favourite places to stop for a few days en route to Sri Lanka’s tea country. Its cooler, mountain climate, lakeside setting, unique history and cultural importance to Sri Lanka weave a magic spell on first-time visitors. And now it has a very cool new cafe too.