If you need a break to escape the “intense” Vietnam’s capital, Hanoï,  this is THE place! Meliá Ba Vi Mountain Retreat is just 55 kilometers from Hanoi and offers you the perfect getaway to relax into the mountain jungle, with the panoramic view of Northern Delta!

After driving through beautiful scenery in the heart of BaVi National Park we found a beautiful place of peace. The hotel is beautiful with a mix of colonial and vietnamese architecture in the middle of a rainforest.

From the lobby to your room every details are enchanting.

The Meliá Ba Vi Mountain Retreat is a proudly Eco-friendly resort which features an organic garden and sustainable amenities mixing wooden fournitures in the rooms and amazing fusion of French colonial and Vietnamese village architecture at the lobby and diverse places.

The breakfast is a fantastic buffet and you can enjoy lunch and dinner in one of the other two restaurants in the hotel. If you want to enjoy a cocktail or a beer you can do it as well in the bar.

To relax the spa will welcome you in a beautiful setting with quality massages.

The must : the pool with a beautiful view of the surrounding nature is heated. Meliá Ba Vi Mountain Retreat definitely a perfect retreat for a few days. The kind of place where times stopped to offer to you a real escape!

The place: Melia Ba Vi website

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After some researches on the Halong Bay it was obvious that cruising would be the best way to explore this area and it was definitely the best choice !
We embarked for 2 days and one night on the Perla Dawn Sails, a very beautiful boat, with the charm of the typically Vietnamese decoration and beautiful sails.

Each cabin has a private balcony and our room had a beautiful bathtub with a large window.

Such an amazing view ! It’s difficult to explain how incredible it was to woke up with this view.

Unfortunately it was a little bit cloudy during this time but it still breathtaking. You have to do it once in your life !
During our trip all your meal are all included and the food was really good.
Breakfast and lunch are a buffet (very large choice of meals) and dinner served on the upper deck (depends of the weather) with a traditional music show is magical. Happy hours as well if you want to partying

You can choose as well several activities: kayaking, night fishing, swimming, visiting caves in a bamboo boat… or just staying on the boat will amaze you from the view. That we will never get tired of.
If you want to enjoy as we do choose the Perla Dawn Sails !

We started our road trip in Israel in the city of Eilat.

Eilat is a touristic city along the famous Red Sea. Israeli people often go there to enjoy the beaches there.

We were welcomed by the Fatal group hotels to relax in the lovely Herods Vitalis Hotel.

We arrived there after 5 hours travelling and were welcomed with a glass of Champagne. The guest relations manager showed us all the facilites of the hotel: restaurants, pools, spa, gym… and escort us to our beautiful Castle Suite.

This is the biggest suite of the hotel with an amazing 180° view of Eilat, Jordan and the left and Egypt on the right.

The hotel kindly offers us a wonderful welcome table with fruits platter, chocolate platter and a bottle of Champagne (again!)

It was 16.30, the perfect moment to enjoy an outstanding sunset while drinking our glass of champagne on our terrace …

In Israel, be sure to get at least 300 sunny days per year! It was amazing to enjoy the sun coming into our room when we woke up….

After a lazy morning we run to the restaurant for a perfect breakfast before enjoying the pool.

At Herods Vitalis we had a quiet private pool just for this part of the hotel.

At the end of the day we went to rent a car and drove a bit around Eilat. It is very easy and safe to drive in Israel.

We found an amazing spot next to Tina National Park to watch the sunset  … 

After our relaxing stay at Herods Vitalis we drove through the desert and headed to to Dead Sea.

What a crazy experience floating on the water!!!

The Dead sea is 10 times more salty than the ocean. The feeling is really strange, when your enter the water you can feel your calfs getting tight, then all your legs and suddenly you let you in and you’re floating!!!

Around the Dead sea the landscapes were completely unreal, it feels like you are on another planet with all the salt formations…(it looks nice but it was very painful to walk on! )

We enjoyed a beautiful sunset along the dead sea shores.

For our last day in Israel we decided to explore the desert because we didn’t have enough time to drive to Jerusalem.

We found really interesting spot and just enjoyed our drive…

We drove to the Ramon Crater

The Ramon Crater is ….

On the edge of the crater a charming friend came to join my picture 😉

And, once again, on our way back to Eilat an beautiful sunset made our day end…

Sorry, I couldn’t resist 😉

Durant mon séjour à Paris en septembre 2018 j’ai séjourné à l’hotel Particulier Montmartre.

Je ne me lasse pas de ce beau quartier parisien! Ces ruelles, ces jolies maisons, on oublie presque que l’on est à Paris, et lorsque l’on vient de la « campagne », cela est plutot sympa^^

À mon arrivée rue Jeunot, un grand portail en fer forgé marque l’arrivée à l’hotel Particulier.

Après avoir longé une agréable allée de verdure j’arrive dans un superbe jardin où je découvre une terrasse dans lequelle il est bon de se détendre avec un livre et un bon thé.

Il est midi, mais pour moi midi c’est l’heure du thé! Je m’installe donc au très chic restaurant de l’hôtel pour savourer un mon thé chaud aux saveurs qui vont font voyager… L’Hotel particulier offre une gamme de thés qui sauront ravir les addicts aimant découvrir de nouvelles saveurs!

J’aime savourer ma petite pause tout en observant les gens autour de moi qui continuent de vivre.

Des dames déjeunent aux tables d’à coté, j’imagine que ce petit restaurant attire tout autant les clients de l’hôtel que les parisiens habitués qui s’éclipsent du mouvement de la ville pour cet écrin de verdure.

Il est l’heure de mon check in, et c’est un plaisir de découvrir la suite n°3 « Chapeaux »

Au 3eme etage, je bascule dans un nouvel univers, j‘aime cela! 

Après les teintes rosés et poudres du restaurants me voici transporté 20 ans en arrière, dans un belle suite totalement noire et blanche en compagnie de Serge Gainsbourg!

Je suis totalement conquise par ces tirages N&B qui ornent mon lit et mon immense salle de bain!

Quoi de mieux pour séduire une photographe?

Lorsque l’on réalise une chambre totalement en N&B, il faut savoir jouer avec les matières pour lui créer un vrai style, ici le pari est plus que réussi!!! Beau mobilier, Coussins rayés, lampes originales, et je ne vous ai pas encore parlé de l’immense verrière qui entour la salle de bain plantée au milieu de la chambre! J’adhère totalement!

Alors évidemment, une suite comme celle ci, on a pas envie de la quitter!

On y prends donc son petit déjeuné! surtout lorsqu’on a un immense lit de plus de 2 mètres de large! Et puis, on profite amplement de cette manique baignoire en mosaïque (Ah bon? vous ne saviez pas encore que je suis fan de baignoires?!)

Bon, il va quand meme falloir sortir de sa chambre un petit peu! C’est l’occasion de prendre un verre au bar le Très Particulier! Et là, encore une fois, c’est une belle découverte et une nouvelle ambiance totalement différente qui s’offre à moi. Le bar est situé dans une magnifique verrière (oui, je suis fan de baignoires, et de verrières!). Le sol est N&B, carrelage d’esprit vintage et ca rend très bien mélangé aux canapés de velour rouge, le tout entouré par d’immenses plantes façon jungle!

À la tombé de la nuit, les jeux de lumière viennent illuminés ces plantes, et la magie opère! C’est l’heure de mon cockatil 😉 

Santé à vous!