The Haute Travel Writer

The Haute Travel Writer

Glenn Harris is the Haute Travel Writer,  an accomplished journalist focusing on luxury travel, fine dining, and  exclusive lifestyle events. He is a UK based writer whose wanderlust has taken him to over 124 countries where he constantly strays off the beaten path to uncover exotic locations, travel gems and exciting experiences for his readers to cherish long after their suite case has been unpacked back home. In addition to writing for luxury travel titles such as Just Luxe, Lonely Planet, and Cruise Critic, he is the Editor-at-Large for Beau Monde Traveler. 

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The Penn at Stoke Park: Tom Sellers Brings Fine Dining to a Historic British Estate

Stoke Park has been in more films than most actors. Bond played Goldfinger on its golf course, Bridget Jones had her dirty weekend here, and golfers have been going on about the seventh hole for the best part of a hundred years. What it hasn’t had, not for a long while, is a restaurant you’d drive across London for. It does now at The Penn at Stoke Park. The chef behind it made his name in Bermondsey, which is a long way from Buckinghamshire in more ways than one. A Bit of History Before the Foo...
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Alila Jabal Akhdar, Oman: A Mountain Retreat on the Rim of the Middle East’s Grand Canyon - BeauMondeTraveller

You are at 2,000 metres, and you notice it mainly through what has gone missing: the heat, the traffic noise, the feeling of being on a timetable. Nights are cold enough that you will want a jacket on that terrace. The air is dry and clean in a way most people haven’t breathed since a ski holiday. There is no soundtrack and nothing to queue for. You have rock, sky, a very long drop and, if you want them, a pool and a pot of tea. That is the case for coming here, and everything else the resort do...
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Mandapa Ritz-Carlton Reserve Bali, Ubud's Soul Satisfying Luxury Resort

Ubud has always been Bali’s most spiritual destination.  The town sits within a landscape of thick jungle valleys, layered rice terraces, and a spiritual tradition that remains deeply woven into daily life. Temples appear around almost every bend in the road. Offerings of flowers and incense appear each morning on doorsteps and shrines. The region has drawn artists, writers, and travellers for generations who arrive looking for perspective as much as scenery. The resort lies just outside the cen...
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Six Senses Con Dao: Inside Vietnam’s Remote Luxury Island Resort

Six Senses Con Dao  sits in the middle of that picture. Barefoot luxury is a phrase hotel copywriters have worked half to death, but here it describes something you can check. You can get from bed to beach to pool to table without putting shoes on. The buildings are teak, bamboo and palm leaf where another resort would have used marble. A drink turns up, a table appears on the sand, and nobody makes a fuss about either. Con Dao is sixteen islands off Vietnam’s southern coast, and Con Son is the...
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London Never Sleeps: A Night with the London Cabaret Club - BeauMondeTraveller

London is just about as cosmopolitan a city as they come. Culture and the arts reign supreme here. The theatres alone would keep you busy for a lifetime, the museums are among the finest anywhere in the world, and the city never once lets you run out of reasons to go out.And then there are the cabaret dinner shows, where food and art share the night, where the table and the stage become one, and where an evening out becomes something else entirely. The London Cabaret Club Experience This is the...
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COMO Cordeillan-Bages, Pauillac: Bordeaux's Médoc Retreat Reborn

An Estate Shaped by the Cazes Family Vision The estate belongs to the Cazes family, whose influence on Bordeaux wine culture extends back more than half a century. Jean Michel Cazes believed that wine deserved context: that visitors should not simply taste but understand, walk the land, sit at the table and remain long enough for place to take hold. His ambition was to create an art of living rooted in authenticity, combining thoughtful accommodation, serious cuisine, contemporary art and direct...
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Amelia Island Florida and a Stay at the Williams House Bed and Breakfast

As you wander half a block off the main drag and the historic district opens up further, fifty blocks in total, more than four hundred structures on the National Register of Historic Places, Victorian homes with gingerbread woodwork and wraparound porches and turrets and gabled dormers, some now operating as small inns, others still private residences sitting quietly behind picket fences. The Smithsonian Institution has described life in Fernandina Beach as one of the best examples of small-town...
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A Food Lover's Guide to Piedmonte with La Giardina Guest House - BeauMondeTraveller

There is a reason the Slow Food movement was born in Piedmont. Actually, there are several reasons, and most of them involve what ends up on your plate. The region sits at the top of Italy geographically, and arguably at the top of Italy gastronomically. The wines are among the finest in the world. The truffles are the most prized. The pasta is made with an absurd number of egg yolks, the beef comes from cattle that have spent their lives on mountain grass, and the recipes have been handed down...
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etch. by Steven Edwards, Restaurant Review: The Discipline of Less

Cooking, as we tend to understand it, is an act of accumulation. Sauce on top of protein on top of purée, the whole edifice crowned with a scattering of microherbs, a drizzle of something acidic, a dusting of something powdered. More. Always more. The contemporary fine dining plate has become, in many hands, like a film with too many subplots, impressive in scale, but difficult to follow. We have come to equate addition with ambition, and restraint with timidity. Which is precisely why walking i...
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The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences: Redefining the Grand Hotel in Mayfair - BeauMondeTraveller

The name Athenaeum struck me as weird at first for a hotel. But with deeper understanding, along with my stay there, I understood why it makes perfect sense to give the hotel this somewhat odd moniker.  The hotel was deliberately named to imbue it with a sense of importance and gravitas,  a choice which has proven justified. The word Athenaeum traces back through Latin to ancient Rome, where it described a school devoted to the study of arts, literature, and learning, borrowed in turn from the G...
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London's Fun Night Out | The Murder Express Dinner Theatre Experience

There are evenings in London when you want something that feels less composed and far more alive. Not another predictable dinner reservation, and not a conventional theatre performance where the audience remains firmly in the background. The Murder Express Part Deux: Jewel of the Empire sits somewhere in between, combining performance, dining, and interaction in a way that feels deliberately energetic from the outset. It sets the tone early, this is not about restraint, it is about participation...
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Inca London, The Ultimate Latin American Dinner Theatre in London - BeauMondeTraveller

London has its fair share of dinner theatres, ranging from glitzy cabarets and jazz lounges to "whodunnit" murder mysteries on the Orient Express. However, for those who love Latin culture mixed in with their mojitos and ceviche, you’ll want to put Inca London on your entertainment itinerary. A High End Latin American Dinner Show Experience Your browser does not support the video tag. Inca London is not your predictable burlesque show or a tired Moulin Rouge knockoff; it is fresh, exciting, and...
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Courmayeur Mount Blanc : Ski, Cuisine, Cellars, and the Culture of Italy's Aosta Valley

Courmayeur, Italy at Its Peak in the Aosta Valley It is known as Italy at its Peak and home to the highest point in western Europe, Monte Bianco, or as the rest of the world calls it, Mont Blanc. Snow capped jagged peaks rise like a crown, framed by dark pine forests that cling to the slopes below. To the families of the valley, the mountain is not a view but a constant presence, woven into life and identity. Generations began as farmers, later guiding early explorers and skiers from Milan, Brit...
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Afternoon Tea at The Royal Crescent, Bath - BeauMondeTraveller

In the UNESCO listed city of Bath stands one of Britain’s most recognisable Georgian landmarks, the sweeping curve of The Royal Crescent. Within this celebrated architectural composition sits The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, where one must visit to partake in one of Britain’s most enduring social rituals.  The setting could not be more ideal for afternoon tea. The ambiance, the attentive service, and the carefully prepared tiers of savouries and sweets combine to capture why the tradition still h...
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Colonel Saab Trafalgar Square Review, A Journey Through India in the Heart of London

There is nothing quite like eating a cuisine in the place it comes from. Pizza tastes different in Italy. Sushi carries a certain purity when enjoyed in Japan. Yet every so often a restaurant far from those origins manages to recreate the experience in a way that feels remarkably real. Just off Trafalgar Square, tucked along the short stretch of William IV Street that links the square with Covent Garden, sits a restaurant that has quickly become a destination for lovers of Indian cuisine. Colone...
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Chichele Presidential: Walking into the Wild in Zambia

The concept of walking on an African safari surrounded by wild animals carries a particular brand of madness for the uninitiated. It is the sudden, jarring removal of mental safety when you are no longer perched two metres above the ground, protected by distance, a sturdy seat, and the frame of a vehicle. This level of proximity to the African bush transforms it from beautiful scenery into something far more immediate, and frankly a bit too close for comfort. Every rustle in the tall grass and e...
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Angler: London’s Michelin Star Seafood Restaurant

London’s dining scene is dog eat dog, and that is not an exaggeration. Restaurants open, build the hype, fall out of favour, and then disappear, sometimes within the same year. It is a constant cycle of new ideas, new menus, new names, and the next best things. That is what makes longevity here such a big deal. To still be operating at a high level after more than a decade is one thing, but to hold a Michelin star for thirteen years without slipping is something else entirely. Add to that the fa...
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Epicurus: Copenhagen’s Destination for Serious Jazz and Fine Dining

In the third century BC the Greek philosopher Epicurus proposed an idea that still resonates today. Happiness, he argued, does not arise from excess but from thoughtful pleasure, meaningful conversation, and the company of friends. It is a philosophy that life’s most rewarding experiences come from cultivated enjoyment rather than indulgence alone. More than two thousand years later, that concept finds a remarkably fitting modern interpretation inside Epicurus in Copenhagen, an international des...
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Bespoke Travel in Crete with Fly Me To The Moon, Part 1 - JustLuxe

Fly Me To The Moon sounds like a strange name for a luxury travel company, but once you understand what sits behind it and the vision of its founder, Elena Papanicolaou, it could not be more fitting. More on that in a moment. This is not the company you call to book a hotel on a beach. It is the company for the sophisticated and curious traveller seeking a bespoke travel experience that stays with you long after you unpack your bags at home. We all know life is short. This company creates trave...
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