Sleek Singaporean hospitality meets old London money… Pan Pacific London is a glossy, calming, quietly fabulous hotel in the middle of the City, which is to say: exactly where one needs a little calm. Set at One Bishopsgate Plaza, steps from Liverpool Street Station, the hotel opened in 2021 as Pan Pacific’s first European property. It brings the brand’s Asian-influenced sense of serenity to a part of London better known for suits & spreadsheets.

Planes are efficient, yachts are flash y, and road trips are… well, they involve gas station snacks. Nothing beats the deliciously old-school glamour of a luxury train journey. Luxury train journeys aren’t about speed or efficiency (that’s what budget airlines are for). They’re about stepping back into a time when travel was an event—where dressing for dinner mattered, cocktails were shaken not stirred, and the journey itself was the destination.