Holiday Goddess

It only took seven minutes for me to become addicted to elephant polo – one chukka of pachyderm madness that would forever change my life.

By Julie Miller
Categories Asia, Chang Mai, Festivals, Thailand

Louise Hawson walks into a cult tailor in Hoi An with $900 and walks out with a new wardrobe

By Louise Hawson
Categories Asia, Shopping, Vietnam

Shopping is a national pasttime and for such a small place, the amount of malls is quite astounding. But I want to focus on the aprés shopping – the cocktail hour

By Faith Bleasdale
Categories Asia, Food and drink, Singapore

Hong Kong is a great city to have a spa-rty in. And it’s an amazing place in which to ignite all the senses if you have loads of money

By Sue Ostler
Categories China, Hong Kong, Spa breaks

Gone are the gruelling thoughts of boot camp and clear broth, replaced with muscular pampering by candlelight with mood music, aroma oils and spa butlers

By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Asia, Spa breaks, Thailand

It’s BYO travel in the truest sense — hammocks, camping gear and food supplies — but for those with pioneer fantasies, it’s unbeatable.

By Tamara Sheward
Categories Asia, Budget Travel, Cambodia, Destinations, Exotic Destinations

Louise Hawson explores some great things to do in Hong Kong on a budget

By Louise Hawson
Categories Asia, China, Food and drink, Hong Kong

Two effects of the French occupation of Vietnam are excellent coffee and amazing art deco hotels.

By Louise Hawson
Categories Asia, Cultural, Vietnam

Louise Hawson discovers that Singapore is much more than just a convenient stop over.

By Louise Hawson
Categories Asia, Singapore

Shanghai has a reputation as a city that is demolishing its links to the past as fast as it is spewing out products and pollution, but a short stay in the atmospheric French concession proves the opposite.

By Clare Press
Categories China, Shanghai