Hilary Doling
Hilary Doling has been getting on and off planes for twenty years since her days on London's Fleet Street where she worked for newspapers such as The Sunday Express, The Times and The Guardian and for England's glossy magazines. In search of sun she moved to Australia as Travel Editor at Fairfax newspapers, running one of the country's most widely read travel sections for twelve years. Specializing in up-market destinations she became Editor-in-Chief of Luxury Travel & Style Magazine. She now heads one of the world's most respected luxury travel websites, The Luxury Travel Bible (operating out of the UK and Australia). She has a regular guest spot on Qantas Up and Away in-flight radio talking about her travels. She also appears sporadically on TV when they need someone to comment on the latest luxury cruise liner to arrive in Sydney Harbour...
Articles published by Hilary Doling
Ten Bedroom Residence Alila Villas Soori, Bali
By Hilary Doling, The Luxury Travel Bible, www.luxurytravelbible.com
A teak-panelled entrance way leads though to a huge space with high vaulted ceiling and giant panels of glass overlooking the ocean. Surely this is lobby of a very grand resort. Well the lobby of Alia Villas Soori is impressive but this isn’t it. This is the entrance [...]
A Segway in Bali
By Hilary Doling, The Luxury Travel Bible www.luxurytravelbible.com
This has to be one of the most surreal things I’ve ever done, floating around the back streets of an isolated Balinese village on a two-wheel electric Segway. I feel like a creature from a bad 1950s sci-fi movie that has somehow landed in paradise. We roll [...]
LUXURY RESORTS: Alila Villas Uluwatu
There is something magical about Made. That’s the only explanation. How else does he know I’m going to need a coffee before I’ve even thought it, or that today I’d like to listen to Mozart when yesterday it was Lady Gaga? Or that a visit to a temple is bound to suit my mood tomorrow? [...]
