Mandarin Oriental is Vienna's newest luxury hotel, but already it has the making of being the top C-suite hangout. It's got so much style. The building, for a start.

At ravishingly-beautiful Mandarin Oriental Vienna, eating and drinking, all designed by a French company, Humbert & Poyet, is in Atelier 7, the glassed-over central courtyard of what is an all-white building rising six floors above ground – see above.

Mandarin Oriental Prague’s new GM John Kitchens arrived back in Prague four months ago from Dubai. He already knew a lot about the Czech capial and its environs from backpacking as a student (oh, what a background this hotelier has).

To New York. New York, the center of the universe, the hum and the noise, and the cheeriness, and the cars looping their way around, jerking up and down, thanks to bumps in the road, and ceaseless trying to get somewhere very fast.