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CSL’s Favourite Hotels | The Ritz Carlton Kapalua
“Situated on 54 acres (including the Honokahua Preservation Site, an ancient Hawaiian burial ground) this oceanfront hotel recently completed a $180 million refurbishment. The hotel features 463 guestrooms, including 107 one and two-bedroom Residential Suites; six restaurants; and the new Ritz-Carlton Spa; two championship golf courses; and Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment program with…
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CSL’s Favourite Hotels | Spice Island Beach Resort
“Owned and operated by Sir Royston Hopkin and family and situated on 8 acres of grounds on Grand Anse beach, the 64 suite hotel (32 of which are beachfront) offers three categories of accomodation ranging from the Garden/Pool suites with living room and balconies to the Royal Collection mini-villas and the Cinnamon and Saffron Suites…
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Awesome Adventure | Whale Watching in Maui
[metaslider id=3375] Images Copyright K&S Media “From mid-October through June, migrating humpback whales come to the islands to mate, give birth and nurse their young in the channel between Maui, Moloka`i, Lana`i and Kaho’olawe that locals affectionately call “whale soup”. An estimated 6 000 whales pass through these waters designated as the Hawaiian Islands…
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CSL’s Favourite Hotels | Four Seasons Resort Lana’i The Lodge at Koele
[metaslider id=3586] For a change of scenery I check in to the Four Seasons Lodge at Ko’ele, enveloped by Cook pines that were planted as a natural catchment. I immediately notice the temperature difference. Koele is routinely 11 degrees colder than at Manele Bay, which is near the sea. Each…
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Alison LaFrance | Queen of Cakes
TRAINING: In high school I used to decorate cakes, and the artistic bug bit me. I ended up going to university for a Bachelor of Commerce, but something about sitting behind a computer all day wasn’t for me and something was missing. I then went back to school in 2004 – SAIT’s baking and…