Asia's Best Valentine's Escapes, Oozing in Luxury
Who said money can’t buy you love? Here are a bunch of fabulous options dripping with champagne and chocolates for those with swelling hearts (and wallets).
Rock My World
Talk about exclusive—Phuket’s boutique hotel Kata Rocks is offering a Valentine’s Day package priced at $30,000 all in—for just one couple. What do you get for those big bucks? It sounds pretty sweet: After your chauffeur pick-up from the airport you’ll receive a couple’s spa treatment before a dinner of oysters, foie gras, wagyu beef, lobster and Valentine’s cake at a private table for two overlooking the coast, surrounded by candles and bouquets of fresh flowers. A bottle of Dom Pérignon 2004 will further loosen things up.
You’ll share in setting off a romantic Chiang Mai lantern for luck under a fireworks display especially for you, before retreating to your Ocean Loft villa’s seven-meter infinity pool, a bed of rose petals and a sensual oil-infused bath. The rest is up to you.
The package is available for one couple only on February 14. 186/22, Kok Tanode Rd., Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand, (+66) 76-370-777, www.katarocks.com/phuket-luxury-resort.
Love in the City
Along the same lines, but even more love-tastic: just one lucky and deep-pocketed couple will have the chance for a romantic long weekend of a lifetime at the Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok over Valentine’s. The two-night stay, between February 13-15, is $95,000 including service and taxes, in the legendary Oriental Suite—which has hosted royalty, heads of state, international celebrities, and this Valentine’s perhaps you, you romantic fool.
The Valentine’s Weekend Oriental Suite offer includes a private butler, return chauffeur-driven transfers and a daily bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal champagne. A private in-suite Valentine’s dinner on February 14 comes complete with violinist and cocktails and more champagne, while fireworks over the Chao Phraya River will add some celestial glitter. Also on offer is an afternoon tea with yet more bubbly, and a four-hour spa treatment that includes a candlelit romantic bath and four-hand massage.
48 Oriental Avenue, Bang Rak, Bangkok, Thailand, (+66) 2-659-9000, www.mandarinoriental.com/bangkok.
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