Inspiring Travel Writing from Simon Crerar
Simon Crerar has worked as a journalist for more than a decade, most recently for The Times in London. He has travelled extensively on six continents. His favourite destinations include Easter Island, Angkor Wat and Australia's Red Centre. He is currently on a round the world global recce, final destination to be confirmed. Follow or get in touch at www.simoncrerar.com
Articles by Simon Crerar
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Mumbai: From the Gutter to the Stars
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Simon Crerar
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India
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Maharashtra
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Magical Mumbai is India’s megacity, a seething, teeming metropolis of more than 14 million people. The subcontinent’s business and entertainment capital, it boasts both the biggest slum and most expensive real estate in Asia, as well as Bollywood,...
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Amangalla: The Butler's Guide to Galle
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Simon Crerar
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Sri Lanka
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South Coast
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Galle
Stay at Galle Fort's Amangalla, and as well as enjoying the best room of your life, you will be looked after by your own personal butler. Amangalla’s five dedicated butlers have been with the hotel since it reopened as part of the Aman group...
Reviews by Simon Crerar
Amangalla | Simon CrerarStay at Galle Fort's Amangalla, and as well as enjoying the best room of your life, you will be looked after by your own personal butler. Amangalla’s five dedicated butlers have been with the hotel since it reopened as part of the Aman group...-
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
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Simon Crerar
What possible reason could you have for staying here? Well for starters, the Four Seasons Hong Kong is the city’s best address. Arrive at Lantau’s Norman Foster-designed Chep Lap Kok airport and you are whisked 35km in 23 minutes by Airport Express...
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Raffles Le Royal Hotel
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Simon Crerar
You know you’re in the tropics when as you’re minding your own business in your room, you spy a shadow in the mirror slipping in through the balcony door. Turning round, you discover a monkey chilling on your bed, acting very much like he owns the...
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Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok
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Simon Crerar
So how does he do it? The River Wing of Bangkok’s grandest old lady, Mandarin Oriental, is 15 stories high, and boasts 150 sumptuously appointed rooms and suites. All day, every day, the wonderfully flamboyant, impeccably attired bell boy Sorn...
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La Passion Hotel
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Simon Crerar
There are hundreds of reasons why you should visit Cartagena – and almost all of them are clustered together within the 16th-century walls of the most perfectly preserved colonial city in the Americas. Perhaps the most compelling motive of all is...
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La Suite
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Simon Crerar
Brazil is South America's potência fantástica, the most dynamic nation on the continent by milhões de milhas: this pulsating, self-confident city explodes with energy. Bowing to no one, Rio serves up cocktails, culture and curves the rest of the...