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The new hotels in Asia Pacific we’ll be booking first after the coronavirus pandemic, from Thai spa retreats to an Australian city property
- Should a travel bubble between Hong Kong and Australia open up, travellers could stay at The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel in increasingly hip Hobart
- For the spa break we all need there is The Rakxa in Bangkok or Zannier Hotels Bai San Ho in south-central Vietnam
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Nobody has a crystal ball to predict where and when we might be able to travel when borders finally reopen, but it seems plenty of Hongkongers will be prepared to splash the cash on something special when we can take flight.
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Our choice of destinations is likely to be limited at first, but there have been, or will be, a number of notable hotel openings in places considered relatively safe.
So where might you be able to go? And where should you stay?
Here are a few new addresses worth noting for a holiday in countries that have shown an ability to control Covid-19 and have had low infection rates and/or speedy vaccination roll-outs to help ensure their own people, and visitors, are as safe as can be.
Coral reefs and a historic harbour in Australia
Australia’s vaccination programme got off to a slow start and the country is unlikely to fully open its borders until mid-2022, but the Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan has hinted that more travel bubbles could follow the launch in April of a trans-Tasman corridor between Australia and New Zealand. Apart from the odd hiccup, it has so far been trouble-free. Australia is on the Hong Kong government’s Group D list of “low-risk” destinations, along with New Zealand, so might Hong Kong be the next place to agree a travel bubble with Canberra?
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