Are you feeling misplaced for the reason that final season of “The White Lotus” ended? Are you counting down the hours till Season Three, set in Thailand, begins Feb. 16? Or, possibly the sweeping landscapes of Hawaii and Sicily, Italy, have impressed you to take a dreamy trip to a swanky resort the place company are handled like “delicate youngsters,” as Armond, the supervisor of the fictional “White Lotus” resort on Maui, instructed his workers earlier than his premature demise?
Both manner, you’ll be able to reside out your “White Lotus” fantasies by visiting the real-life Four Seasons resorts the place the smash HBO sequence was filmed. And to indicate you simply how candy a keep at one in all these resorts is — you understand, with out the drama the company on the present expertise — we despatched a few of TPG’s greatest to every of the three featured 4 Seasons resorts to movie their experiences.
Here is every part you should know concerning the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, the luxurious Hawaiian resort the place the primary season was filmed; the San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Lodge, the historic convent-turned-hotel that performed host to Season Two; and the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, a lush paradise on the Gulf of Thailand that seems within the newest installment of the sequence.
Sadly, Four Seasons doesn’t have a loyalty program, so for those who resolve to go to one in all these lovely (and costly!) lodges, you want a workaround to snag some elitelike advantages.
Take into account booking through our partner Skylark for property credit, potential room upgrades and late checkout (when accessible). Or, in case you have The Platinum Card® from American Express, you’ll be able to e book via American Express Fine Hotels + Resorts to get perks like every day breakfast for 2, property credit and assured late checkout.
In case your trip price range is not fairly as massive as Tanya McQuoid’s, we have additionally discovered points-based alternate options to think about that’ll assist you to earn or redeem factors and rating elite night time credit.
Season 1: 4 Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea
When the world was launched to “The White Lotus” in 2021, we have been additionally launched to one in all Hawaii’s most luxurious resorts, the 4 Seasons Resort Maui. Within the well-liked resort space of Wailea, this 4 Seasons is vivid, ethereal and, in true 4 Seasons type, completely refined (however with a tropical twist).
Company are greeted with a conventional lei after which invited to expertise the various, many issues on provide. Spend your days absorbing some solar by one in all three swimming pools (together with an adults-only choice) the place chilled treats are introduced out all through the day. Or, head to the seaside to snorkel or paddleboard.
Guide a remedy in an open-air hut on the spa. The sounds of the Pacific Ocean waves therapeutic massage your thoughts whereas a masseuse massages your physique with Hawaiian pohaku (or rocks) collected proper on the island.
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Eating choices are plentiful and vary from the Hawaiian outpost of Wolfgang Puck’s Spago, serving coastal fusion meals, to alfresco eating at Duo, a steakhouse and seafood restaurant.
There are additionally an Italian restaurant, pool bars and cafes, and a foyer bar that serves sushi and hosts reside music. Or, simply laze the day away and order room service.
Talking of the rooms, company can select amongst various rooms and suites that face out to the ocean or the luxurious, inexperienced gardens.
All are embellished in muted tones that mirror the pure fantastic thing about Maui and have lanais that permit company to have a non-public outside area to breathe within the salty ocean air.
To take a luxurious journey to this resort to the following degree, 4 Seasons will help set up a non-public airplane to the island via its associate NetJets.
The on-site concierge crew may also set up unimaginable actions like non-public helicopter excursions over the island with stops for espresso tastings, hula classes and outrigger excursions to see the ocean from a special perspective.
Additionally, if you should get out on a ship (is it even “The White Lotus” if Tanya is not on a ship sooner or later?), the resort can set up a non-public constitution on a sailboat, catamaran or yacht.
Charges on the Four Seasons Resort Maui sometimes begin round $1,200 per night time. Nonetheless, charges fluctuate all year long and simply climb by a whole bunch of {dollars} an evening throughout peak seasons.
Factors various: Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort
Simply down the street from the 4 Seasons, the Andaz Maui is a well-liked Hyatt resort you’ll be able to e book utilizing factors. The corporate has a good award chart and affords most of the similar facilities as 4 Seasons.
This resort is a good various if you could find award availability. Nonetheless, be warned that money charges are nonetheless fairly costly.
Throughout the day, company on the Andaz can select to chill out in one in all 5 totally different swimming pools: three infinity swimming pools, a lagoon-style pool and an adults-only tranquility pool.
At night time, chill out with a drink close to an out of doors hearth pit or e book a desk for “The Feast at Mokapu Luau,” an interactive present that tells the story of Hawaii via conventional music, dancing and different performances that features a family-style meal and drinks.
Different eating choices on the Andaz Maui embrace a Japanese restaurant by famed chef Masaharu Morimoto, a farm-to-table-style restaurant, a seaside bar and an out of doors lounge that is the right spot to look at the solar set.
Just like the 4 Seasons, the Andaz Maui has trendy, well-appointed rooms, suites and even villas, all of which have non-public lanais. If you really want to unfold out, contemplate reserving one of many multiroom villas, a few of which characteristic non-public swimming pools or sizzling tubs.
Different options of the resort embrace the Awili Spa and Salon in Wailea, dog-friendly rooms and a concierge workers that may assist prepare actions and excursions like helicopter excursions or whale-watching journeys.
A Class 8 World of Hyatt resort, the Andaz Maui has award nights that vary from 35,000 to 45,000 factors per night time. Money charges begin round $950 per night time.
Season 2: San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Lodge
Regardless of what Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya may assume, there isn’t a queen of Sicily. Nonetheless, you will definitely really feel like royalty after a keep at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Lodge — the setting for the second season of “The White Lotus.”
Constructed as a convent within the 14th century and transformed to a lodge in 1896, the property options sweeping views of the Ionian Sea. Let’s simply say the one factor dramatic in actual life on the San Domenico Palace is the views from the clifftop infinity pool or sea-view suites.
Try to splurge on the manager suite with a plunge pool and sea view. The decor is mild, vivid and breezy. Rooms additionally showcase Italian artwork and marble loos.
The lodge is house to Italian gardens and the Michelin-starred Principe Cerami restaurant (no, it is not odd that the company within the second season of “The White Lotus” spent a lot time consuming on the lodge). Unwind on the spa with quite a lot of therapies, like a San Domenico sizzling stone therapeutic massage or a personalised physique remedy wrap.
Take a look at a few of the experiences accessible all through the lodge — from Sicilian wine tastings to exploring historic websites just like the Palazzo Corvaja and the Piazza IX Aprile. These customized excursions are a wonderful method to study concerning the island’s mixture of Arab and North African cultural influences.
The 4 Seasons crew may also help with chartering a yacht or sailboat for snorkeling, sightseeing the landmarks of Isola Bella and Grotta Azzurra, and nourishing the day with a 4 Seasons-prepared non-public lunch.
When disembarking the boat (spoiler alert), do not be a Tanya — please watch your step.
Room availability might be spotty, and charges are steep — so e book shortly forward of the lodge reopening for the season March 1.
Charges for sea-view rooms at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel sometimes begin round 2,585 euros (roughly $2,760) per night time all through the summer season. Extra reasonably priced visitor rooms (with out the ocean view) can be found in October and begin at 1,545 euros (roughly $1,650) an evening.
Factors various: Delta Inns Giardini Naxos
For individuals who will not be seeking to drain their 401(okay) for a Sicilian lodge keep, you are in luck.
A 20-minute drive southwest down the coast from San Domenico Palace is the points-friendly Delta Inns Giardini Naxos, which is a part of Marriott Bonvoy. The beachfront lodge showcases views of the Ionian Sea and has a non-public seaside, an infinity pool and upgraded areas following a renovation that was accomplished in 2021.
Public areas characteristic native artwork with pops of Mediterranean blue, yellow and stone hues. The renovation prolonged to the foyer and check-in space (the brand new darkish grey lava prime of the check-in counter is a nod to the island’s Mount Etna volcano) and the lodge’s bars and eating places.
Fluido Bar on the pool terrace is a superb spot to seize a cocktail and take within the views of the ocean and volcanic sandy seashores. For fantastic eating, La Sciara options Sicilian delicacies and wines. The Brezza Seashore Bar and Panarea are extra informal spots to seize a chew (Panarea is the lodge’s breakfast spot).
All visitor rooms and suites characteristic balconies and comfy furnishings with a mixture of vivid upholstery and darkish wooden furnishings. Sea views are solely supplied with superior and deluxe visitor rooms and suites. The one-bedroom presidential suite, the last word RG Naxos splurge, comes with a sea view and an expansive terrace.
The lodge’s spa affords quite a lot of providers, from {couples} massages to manicures and pedicures. Close by sights embrace Mount Etna, one of many world’s most energetic volcanos and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps, and the Alcantara Gorges, a river mattress relationship again 300,000 years.
Nightly charges at Delta Hotels Giardini Naxos sometimes start at 169 euros (roughly $180) or 25,000 Marriott Bonvoy factors via the summer season.
Season 3: 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui
Although we’ll have to attend for Season Three to unfold, we are able to dig into the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui in Thailand, the place we all know the third installment of “The White Lotus” will partially happen.
Koh Samui is the second-largest island in Thailand and a wonderful vacation spot for vacationers who need to get pleasure from crystalline waters, boat round lovely pure formations, hike to hidden waterfalls or simply chill out on picture-perfect seashores. To do it in luxurious, the 4 Seasons is a no brainer.
On the resort, company can keep in one in all 60 villas that includes a non-public pool and totally different viewpoints, together with one proper on the seaside with easy accessibility to the water or one other larger up with panoramic views of the islands dotting the Gulf of Thailand.
Scenes will definitely happen at one of many resort’s many eating places and bars, like Koh Bar, which serves Thai wine; the poolside rum bar Cocorum, which has Asia’s solely rum vault; and Koh Thai Kitchen, a Thai restaurant with a thatched roof excessive up within the resort, making it a scenic perch to look at the goings on of no matter mischief takes place in Season Three.
After all, the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui affords loads of different luxuries we have seen on the present, like non-public yachts to constitution and sail across the islands, a spa with an array of therapies, a beachfront infinity pool — and, in true Thai trend, a Muay Thai ring.
Charges on the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui begin round $1,033 per night time.
Factors various: The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui
If you wish to take a “White Lotus”-style trip to Koh Samui utilizing factors, there are a handful of nice choices throughout a couple of applications, like IHG One Rewards, Hilton Honors and Marriott Bonvoy. However few are as luxe because the island’s Ritz-Carlton.
Set on 58 acres on the northeastern a part of Koh Samui, this Ritz-Carlton has many lodging sorts to select from, together with terrace suites with king beds and pool villas looking throughout the water.
Breakfast is served on the open-air Shook! restaurant, with Asian and Western choices on the menu, whereas different eating choices embrace a steakhouse, an Indian restaurant and even a dinner expertise that includes Thai avenue meals and reside dancing on Saturday nights.
Throughout the day, company can chill out by the seaside or pool, get in a Muay Thai exercise, go to the spa for some relaxation and rest and even embark on a guided snorkel on the resort’s on-property swim reef that is freed from jellyfish and residential to 50 kinds of fish.
Charges at The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui begin round $308 or 70,000 Marriott Bonvoy factors per night time.
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