One of the outstanding features of the entire Andermatt project is the enthusiasm and the niceness of all the people.

James Lamb isn’t running a hotel – he’s tasked by Orascom’s Samih Sawiris and his increasingly influential son Naguib with putting Andermatt on the map.

Sholto Crawford-Smith is an internationalist who is blissfully happy in London as General Manager of the 447-room Intercontinental London Park Lane.

Intercontinental London Park Lane is 51 years old, and a lot has changed in that half-century. Admittedly, when it opened in 1975, you would have been looking out at masses of traffic.

Four Seasons Fort Lauderdale is lots of fun – see its house car, with vanity plate, above. That's how it was intended to be.

Mali Carow, above, is a vivacious Chicago girl who's travelled the world. Girlahead first met her in Amman when she was general manager of Four Seasons there.

The Sybaritic Single remembers the time when he was wearing the newest Christian Dior runway look, chic black shorts with a white bar jacket.

Take a trip to the beach from Oetker Collection’s The Vineta Palm Beach. The ocean’s only three blocks away…

Emanuela Setterberg Di Vivo, the Italian-Swedish dynamo who’s spearheading Oetker Collection’s debut into USA as GM of the 41-room The Vineta, Palm Beach, is totally delightful.