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In our latest column, we take you around cities that make for great stopovers. Luxury hotel designer Bill Bensley takes us to his favourite haunts I’ve called Bangkok home for the past 30 years. At first sight, it’s an endlessly busy city with seemingly endless traffic jams. But peel back the layers you’ll discover that Bangkok offers so much more. You can find anything here: the best Japanese food out of Japan, fabulous antiques and mysterious speakeasies, to its Thai street food and awe inspiring architecture – all muddled up in a mess of telephone wires.

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Luxe boltholes proving that luxury can indeed be reconciled with sustainability.

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Apartment in Havana Vieja, Cuba. This apartment is located in the most beautiful and charming location of Old Havana. It's just IN Plaza Vieja. Located in a calm backyard, you will have all the confort you need. The place is newly renovated with everything you need. What else? ;-)

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The Shophouse is a renovated apartment-style accomodation in a 100+year old townhouse in George Town. The city is now celebrating its 7th anniversary as a World Heritage City, so this is a great time to experience the ambience of staying in a living heritage city! This is the ground floor suite of a three-storey house. As a self-contained private apartment unit, it has a queen-sized bed and a convertible sofa (firm and comfy!) so it works for a couple and an extra person. It comes complete with an ensuite bathroom, a simple kitchen and dining area. Only a microwave (to heat up food) and kettle (for hot drinks) are provided because guests are literally surrounded by Penang's best hawker foods available throughout the day. One 2hp air-con and two ceiling fans keeps the place cool, and the room's centrepiece is its lovely airwell. Despite being in the city, you could be woken up by the chirping of birds in the mornings and in the afternoon, the warm, yeasty aroma of baking bread will waft in from the next door bakery - one of the few still making traditional Hainanese bread.

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