Wondering where to go for luxury travel in Europe? Here you find recommendations where to stay & dine in style with value for money. In addition, there are tips what to do (often involving walking). For Switzerland, go to the separate category!

Hotel Cour des Vosges/Place des Vosges (view from hotel room) Paris
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Checking in to Hotel Cour des Vosges, a luxury boutique hotel in Paris

Where to go for staying in style - with best views - in the French capital in 2022: Paris is my favorite city in the world, and it certainly is the one I have visited most so far. My husband and I even used to live here for a longer period…
Hotel Es Princep Palma de Mallorca/Spain/staying & dining in style in Palma de Mallorca
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Staying & dining in style in PALMA DE MALLORCA/Spain

1 luxury hotel & 2 fine dining Michelin restaurants in Mallorca's capital of Palma: Last but not least in my mini-series about Mallorca, some info about where to go for staying and dining in style in Palma de Mallorca, the island's capital.…
Hotel Can Simoneta Mallorca/Spain/staying & dining in style in Mallorca's northeast
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Staying & dining in style in the NORTHEAST of Mallorca/Spain

1 luxury hotel & 3 fine dining Michelin restaurants around Canyamel: After details to Mallorca's north and southwest in terms of staying and dining in style in my previous posts, this one will deliver the same for the northeast around Canyamel.…
Hotel Son Brull Pollença Mallorca/Spain/staying & dining in style in Mallorca's north
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Staying & dining in style in the NORTH of Mallorca/Spain

1 luxury hotel & 3 fine dining (Michelin) restaurants around Pollença: Now it is up to where to go for staying and dining in style in Mallorca's north in the Pollença area. This is the second of four posts in total about luxury hotels…
Hotel Castell Son Claret Mallorca/Spain/staying & dining in style in Mallorca's southwest
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Staying & dining in style in the SOUTHWEST of Mallorca/Spain

1 luxury hotel & 4 fine dining (Michelin) restaurants around Es Capdellà: After giving an overview where to go for staying and dining in style in Mallorca, here are now the details to four different parts of this Balearic Island. The…
Hotel Castell Son Claret Mallorca/Spain - staying & dining in style in Mallorca
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Mallorca/Spain in style, a 15-day road trip itinerary

Luxury hotels & Michelin dining along the route: It took my husband and me long, very long, until our first visit to Mallorca. And this is not without reason. The biggest Balearic Island has been known to be an overtouristed destination…
tourism Mallorca
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Mallorca, Spain – how to continue with its (excessive) tourism?

The biggest of the Balearic Islands - in the western Mediterranean Sea - is at the crossroads: Mallorca, the most visited of the Balearic Islands near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, must make important decisions as to its excessive…
clockwise from top left: Olten-Goesgen, Eptingen, Baden, Langenthal - fine dining restaurants Olten-Aarau
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Fine dining restaurants in the OLTEN-AARAU REGION, northwestern Switzerland

Update to what is still good & what is new: If you want to know where to head for great fine dining restaurants in the Olten-Aarau region outside of these two towns, then stay tuned. There are nine dining-spots you do want to miss if…
Aarau, Switzerland - fine dining restaurants Aarau
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Fine dining restaurants in the town of AARAU, northwestern Switzerland

Update to what is still good & what is new: Now it is up to Aarau's (casual) fine dining scene, after providing an overview of the whole region Olten-Aarau and looking into the one of the neighboring town of Olten. And again I will create…