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Anantara Hotels & Resorts, the indigenous experience led luxury hotel brand, will roll out a global ban on the use of single-use plastic straws at every property worldwide by 1st October 2018. Since January of this year, when Anantara was the first major hotel brand to announce its decision to eradicate plastic straws at every single property across the Asia region, Anantara has been working hard to roll out the ban to properties in Australasia, Europe and the Middle East.

Travellers can now glam up for Thailand’s famous full and half-moon parties on the paradise island of Koh Phangan, as Anantara Rasananda Koh Phangan Villas launches a luxury Koh Phangan Party in Style Package. The upscale party package blends exclusive full or half moon revelry with indulgent island pleasures into a three night stay or more in an Ocean Pool Villa.

Exchange vows under a canopy of palm fronds with the Indian Ocean setting a perfect backdrop. Toast Champagne beside a tranquil lagoon at sunset, before enjoying a soiree reception in tropical gardens fragrant with the scent of frangipani, or in a stunning ballroom with dual views of the ocean and the Kalu River.

Always daring to be different, PER AQUUM Hotels and Resorts offers dreamers, adventurers and families alike a myriad of luxury aquatic experiences over, on and under the Maldives’ Laccadive Sea this festive season. From the avant-garde to the surreal, PER AQUUM Huvafen Fushi and its sister resort PER AQUUM Niyama are set to thrill holidaymakers with an array of experiences and offerings ranging from radiant glow parties six metres under the sea to dreamlike sleep-overs at sea, and the Maldives’ first live underwater coral Christmas tree.

Sri Lanka, August 2016: Sri Lanka’s award winning resort, which opened its doors in December 2015 and has to date received numerous awards and recognition from leading international luxury publications for service excellence, is proud to appoint Mr. W.H. Duminda Boteju to the position of Chef Concierge.

Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas and Anantara Layan Phuket Resort have taken luxury to the next level by popping open the bubbly for guests on a personally tailored day trip with free flowing Krug Champagne aboard your very own private yacht. Accommodating up to 12 people, The Krug Cruise offers a fully crewed 90-foot Sunseeker yacht named Major Affair, return transfers to and from the resort and the marina, breakfast and a sumptuous lunch created by your very own personal on board chef, plus free flowing Krug Champagne served all day long by Anantara’s esteemed Wine Guru.

The world’s elite travellers have a new secret hideaway to call home in Dubai, with the launch of Desert Palm PER AQUUM’s Villa LAYALI. The just-unveiled villa takes Arabian luxury into strikingly imaginative territory. Villa LAYALI welcomes guests to a world where designer geometries and sensory pleasures await behind closed doors and patterns of light shift across courtyard walls and panes of water.