The 440-key Charleston Place Hotel is 40 years old this year, and its MD Becky Hubbard, above, is in her element.

For a complete change of scene, Girlahead is in Charleston. Oh, what a divine place with some lovely, quaint, and very hospitable hosteleries. The reason for this trip is the 2026 Global Conference of Preferred Hotel and Resort.

One of London’s largest sculptures, Slipstream, was unveiled for the reopening of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 was unveiled by her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in June 2014.

Girlahead is taking a break to look at unusual art. The piece above in the lobby of Claridge’s, London, is by Lynn Chadwick, 1915-2003, known for striking, bold, and sometimes angular sculptures.

Why don’t all hotels do this? Turn the inside of elevator cabins into quick exercise venues. But then there are so many features of Grand Hyatt Rio that are definitely worth mentioning.

Alexandra Bueno, known as Ale, can’t believe her luck. After two years as a Hyatt GM in Montevideo and the same duration in Cartagena, since 2022 she’s back in her home town, as GM of Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro.

Belmond Copacabana Palace, dominating Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, is stylish through and through

Ulysses Marreiros, above, is a very imposing Portuguese who comes from Faro in the very south of that country, and he’s in charge of a very imposing hotel

The Sybaritic Single indulges by the pool at The Chedi Muscat when he receives the news that he has to be in Istanbul the following day.