Virtuoso Travel Advisor - Julia Kostina - Luxury Travel Advisor

Six Senses Hotel Rome

Italy, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, Modern, RomeApril 24, 2024133Views 0Likes 0Comments

New address in Rome, Six Senses Hotel: modern, slick, youngish, sustainable and oh so different from many classic style hotels in the city. Located just off Via del Corso on the little Piazza di San Marcello, Hotel Six Senses occupies solemn palazzo, perfect example of Roman Classicism with all its grandeur and splendour, but…

Sicilia. Noto and around.

Authentic Luxury, Italy, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, SicilyApril 12, 2024219Views 0Likes 0Comments

I was looking ahead to see Noto, and I was not disappointed. Small town indeed, but so picturesque that you can't stop taking one picture after another, and each angle is an authentic baroque beauty soaked in Southern sun to the honey-golden quality. And those balconies! With my obsession to architectural details, I was like…

Sicilia. Ragusa.

Authentic Luxury, Italy, Luxury Travel, SicilyApril 11, 2024212Views 0Likes 0Comments

Don't take me wrong, I love Taormina with its luxury hotels, tremendous scenery, picturesque landscape, narrow streets dotted with boutique shops and characteristic restaurants. But lets speak about Sicily. The one where legendary "Inspector Montalbano" serial was filmed, where price for dinner is still human, and the streets are still populated with characters from 70th…

Speaking Puglia… Masseria de Carrube

Authentic Luxury, Gourmet dining, Italy, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, PugliaApril 8, 2024156Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sister (well, little sister) property of famous Borgo Egnazia - hotel which put Puglia on the map and radar of luxury travel. I have complicated relations with Borgo Egnazia (don't take me wrong, it is fabulous for certain and many clients), but Masseria de Carrube was a love from first glance: unpretentious, simple, and simply…

Fairmont Gold – you deserve it!

Canada, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, News, luxury hotelsApril 6, 2024203Views 0Likes 0Comments

Fairmont Royal York Toronto is a landmark hotel in downtown of the Canadian New York, but some may remember it getting a bit dated. Recent renovation changed the game. Its public areas, Reign restaurant and bars are trendy as never, equally requested by travellers and locals, and as young generation would say, absolutely instagram-worthy. …

Live like Borghese

Authentic Luxury, Italy, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, RomeApril 4, 2024152Views 0Likes 0Comments

magine unimaginable: possibility to stay at noble private mansion, part of Palazzo Borghese in the very heart of Roma, and to have all this opulence and grandeur as your home for a night or two. The spaces and smashingly splendid, while meticulous refurbishment added some contemporary touches and all modern comfort, making it home but…

Hotel Bulgari Roma, another Bulgari gem

Italy, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, Mindset, RomeApril 2, 2024151Views 0Likes 0Comments

I may not be the biggest fan possible of modern design, but Bulgari hotels stay apart from those which can be considered too cold, too slick, too plain. Well, anything but plain with all these meticulously chosen details, materials, colours, and details again. Bulgari hotels, all I was staying at, are pure delight for all…

Brunello Cucinelli. Sometimes you meet your hero.

Authentic Luxury, Italy, Luxury Travel, Umbria, Unique experienceApril 1, 2024150Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sometimes I think (and I guess I'm about right) that there is no other profession in the world which would offer as many possibilities to meet extraordinary people as travel related profession. When I say "extraordinary", I don't exactly mean famous or noble people even I was lucky to encounter few. I mean... simply amazing…

Florence, town to love.

Authentic Luxury, Florence, Italy, Luxury TravelMarch 31, 2024175Views 0Likes 0Comments

I don't know any other city in the world as easily lovable as Firenze. I was visiting, long and short, I was passing by number of times, I was even living there for months, and it was never ever enough. The beauty of Florence is overwhelmingly perfect but never boring, and between me and I,…

Palazzo Fiuggi. How to live longer and healthier.

Authentic Luxury, Italy, Luxury Hotels, SPA hotelsMarch 29, 2024186Views 1Like 0Comments

My first visit to this part of Roman countryside, and so much to discover. Palazzo Fiuggi was in my travel plans for a while, and the moment came - I really needed to reload, and I had couple of days before joining SINA hotels celebration in Rome. Well, my lifestyle is not super healthy do…

Rome, the city of many layers

Italy, Luxury Travel, Unique experienceMarch 29, 2024185Views 0Likes 0Comments

I never could embrace this eternal city tight enough to say "it is mine! I learned it!". But somehow I'm part of it so easily. From my landing to Fiumicino and so on. From passing via Condotti and being called by very familiar voice: Juuuuuliaaa!!! Just to see Anna Maria Coli and Lina Bartelli running…

Different Morocco – Taghazout Bay.

Authentic Luxury, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Travel, Mindset, Morocco, Unique experienceFebruary 28, 2024266Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've been to Morocco quite few times, always discovering something new and exceptionally amazing for myself and my clients. Discovery of Taghazout Bay was totally unexpected: I came for travel conference in Marrakech, and I was about to stay in Marrakech and around, but brutal earthquake leaded to conference cancellation, flights to get off the…