4 Seasons accommodations from ‘The White Lotus’

Are you feeling misplaced because the final season of “The White Lotus” ended? Are you counting down the hours till Season Three, set in Thailand, begins Feb. 16? Or, possibly the sweeping landscapes of Hawaii and Sicily, Italy, have impressed you to take a dreamy trip to a swanky resort the place friends are handled like “delicate youngsters,” as Armond, the supervisor of the fictional “White Lotus” resort on Maui, instructed his workers earlier than his premature demise?

Both method, you’ll be able to dwell out your “White Lotus” fantasies by visiting the real-life 4 Seasons resorts the place the smash HBO collection was filmed. And to point out you simply how candy a keep at one in all these resorts is — you realize, with out the drama the friends on the present expertise — we despatched a few of TPG’s greatest to every of the three featured 4 Seasons resorts to movie their experiences.

This is every thing you should know concerning the 4 Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, the luxurious Hawaiian resort the place the primary season was filmed; the San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Resort, the historic convent-turned-hotel that performed host to Season Two; and the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui, a lush paradise on the Gulf of Thailand that seems within the newest installment of the collection.

Sadly, 4 Seasons does not have a loyalty program, so for those who determine to go to one in all these lovely (and costly!) accommodations, you want a workaround to snag some elitelike advantages.

Take into account reserving via our accomplice Skylark for property credit, potential room upgrades and late checkout (when obtainable). Or, when you have The Platinum Card® from American Specific, you’ll be able to guide via American Specific Positive Lodges + Resorts to get perks like each day breakfast for 2, property credit and assured late checkout.

In case your trip funds is not fairly as large as Tanya McQuoid’s, we have additionally discovered points-based alternate options to think about that’ll enable you earn or redeem factors and rating elite evening credit.

Season 1: 4 Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea

When the world was launched to “The White Lotus” in 2021, we have been additionally launched to one in all Hawaii’s most luxurious resorts, the 4 Seasons Resort Maui. Within the well-liked resort space of Wailea, this 4 Seasons is shiny, ethereal and, in true 4 Seasons model, completely refined (however with a tropical twist).

Visitors are greeted with a conventional lei after which invited to expertise the numerous, many issues on provide. Spend your days absorbing some solar by one in all three swimming pools (together with an adults-only possibility) the place chilled treats are introduced out all through the day. Or, head to the seaside to snorkel or paddleboard.

Ebook a therapy in an open-air hut on the spa. The sounds of the Pacific Ocean waves therapeutic massage your thoughts whereas a masseuse massages your physique with Hawaiian pohaku (or rocks) collected proper on the island.

Eating choices are plentiful and vary from the Hawaiian outpost of Wolfgang Puck’s Spago, serving coastal fusion meals, to alfresco eating at Duo, a steakhouse and seafood restaurant.

There are additionally an Italian restaurant, pool bars and cafes, and a foyer bar that serves sushi and hosts dwell music. Or, simply laze the day away and order room service.

Talking of the rooms, friends can select amongst a variety of rooms and suites that face out to the ocean or the luxurious, inexperienced gardens.

All are embellished in muted tones that replicate the pure great thing about Maui and have lanais that enable friends to have a personal out of doors area to breathe within the salty ocean air.

To take a luxurious journey to this resort to the subsequent stage, 4 Seasons may also help set up a personal aircraft to the island via its accomplice NetJets.

The on-site concierge staff may also set up unbelievable actions like non-public helicopter excursions over the island with stops for espresso tastings, hula classes and outrigger excursions to see the ocean from a special perspective.

Additionally, if you should get out on a ship (is it even “The White Lotus” if Tanya is not on a ship sooner or later?), the resort can set up a personal constitution on a sailboat, catamaran or yacht.

Charges on the 4 Seasons Resort Maui usually begin round $1,200 per evening. Nonetheless, charges fluctuate all year long and simply climb by tons of of {dollars} an evening throughout peak seasons.

Factors various: Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort

Simply down the highway from the 4 Seasons, the Andaz Maui is a well-liked Hyatt resort you’ll be able to guide utilizing factors. The corporate has a good award chart and provides most of the similar facilities as 4 Seasons.

This resort is a good various if you’ll find award availability. Nonetheless, be warned that money charges are nonetheless fairly costly.

In the course of the day, friends on the Andaz can select to loosen up in one in all 5 totally different swimming pools: three infinity swimming pools, a lagoon-style pool and an adults-only tranquility pool.

At evening, loosen up with a drink close to an out of doors fireplace pit or guide a desk for “The Feast at Mokapu Luau,” an interactive present that tells the story of Hawaii via conventional music, dancing and different performances that features a family-style meal and drinks.

Different eating choices on the Andaz Maui embrace a Japanese restaurant by famed chef Masaharu Morimoto, a farm-to-table-style restaurant, a seaside bar and an out of doors lounge that is the proper spot to observe the solar set.

Just like the 4 Seasons, the Andaz Maui has fashionable, well-appointed rooms, suites and even villas, all of which have non-public lanais. If you actually need to unfold out, think about reserving one of many multiroom villas, a few of which function non-public swimming pools or scorching tubs.

Different options of the resort embrace the Awili Spa and Salon in Wailea, dog-friendly rooms and a concierge workers that may assist prepare actions and excursions like helicopter excursions or whale-watching journeys.

A Class 8 World of Hyatt resort, the Andaz Maui has award nights that vary from 35,000 to 45,000 factors per evening. Money charges begin round $950 per evening.

Season 2: San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Resort

Regardless of what Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya would possibly suppose, there isn’t any queen of Sicily. Nonetheless, you may actually really feel like royalty after a keep at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Resort — the setting for the second season of “The White Lotus.”

Constructed as a convent within the 14th century and transformed to a resort in 1896, the property options sweeping views of the Ionian Sea. Let’s simply say the one factor dramatic in actual life on the San Domenico Palace is the views from the clifftop infinity pool or sea-view suites.

Attempt to splurge on the chief suite with a plunge pool and sea view. The decor is mild, shiny and breezy. Rooms additionally showcase Italian artwork and marble bogs.

The resort is residence to Italian gardens and the Michelin-starred Principe Cerami restaurant (no, it is not odd that the friends within the second season of “The White Lotus” spent a lot time consuming on the resort). Unwind on the spa with quite a lot of therapies, like a San Domenico scorching stone therapeutic massage or a customized physique therapy wrap.

Take a look at among the experiences obtainable all through the resort — from Sicilian wine tastings to exploring historic websites just like the Palazzo Corvaja and the Piazza IX Aprile. These customized excursions are a wonderful strategy to study concerning the island’s mixture of Arab and North African cultural influences.

The 4 Seasons staff may also help with chartering a yacht or sailboat for snorkeling, sightseeing the landmarks of Isola Bella and Grotta Azzurra, and nourishing the day with a 4 Seasons-prepared non-public lunch.

When disembarking the boat (spoiler alert), do not be a Tanya — please watch your step.

Room availability may be spotty, and charges are steep — so guide shortly forward of the resort reopening for the season March 1.

Charges for sea-view rooms at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Resort usually begin round 2,585 euros (roughly $2,760) per evening all through the summer time. Extra inexpensive visitor rooms (with out the ocean view) can be found in October and begin at 1,545 euros (roughly $1,650) an evening.

Factors various: Delta Lodges Giardini Naxos

For many who are usually not seeking to drain their 401(ok) for a Sicilian resort keep, you are in luck.

A 20-minute drive southwest down the coast from San Domenico Palace is the points-friendly Delta Lodges Giardini Naxos, which is a part of Marriott Bonvoy. The beachfront resort showcases views of the Ionian Sea and has a personal seaside, an infinity pool and upgraded areas following a renovation that was accomplished in 2021.

Public areas function native artwork with pops of Mediterranean blue, yellow and stone hues. The renovation prolonged to the foyer and check-in space (the brand new darkish grey lava prime of the check-in counter is a nod to the island’s Mount Etna volcano) and the resort’s bars and eating places.

Fluido Bar on the pool terrace is a wonderful spot to seize a cocktail and take within the views of the ocean and volcanic sandy seashores. For fantastic eating, La Sciara options Sicilian delicacies and wines. The Brezza Seaside Bar and Panarea are extra informal spots to seize a chew (Panarea is the resort’s breakfast spot).

All visitor rooms and suites function balconies and comfortable furnishings with a mixture of shiny upholstery and darkish wooden furnishings. Sea views are solely supplied with superior and deluxe visitor rooms and suites. The one-bedroom presidential suite, the final word RG Naxos splurge, comes with a sea view and an expansive terrace.

The resort’s spa provides quite a lot of providers, from {couples} massages to manicures and pedicures. Close by points of interest embrace Mount Etna, one of many world’s most lively volcanos and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps, and the Alcantara Gorges, a river mattress relationship again 300,000 years.

Nightly charges at Delta Lodges Giardini Naxos usually start at 169 euros (roughly $180) or 25,000 Marriott Bonvoy factors via the summer time.

Season 3: 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui

Although we’ll have to attend for Season Three to unfold, we are able to dig into the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui in Thailand, the place we all know the third installment of “The White Lotus” will partially happen.

Koh Samui is the second-largest island in Thailand and a lovely vacation spot for vacationers who need to take pleasure in crystalline waters, boat round lovely pure formations, hike to hidden waterfalls or simply loosen up on picture-perfect seashores. To do it in luxurious, the 4 Seasons is a no brainer.

On the resort, friends can keep in one in all 60 villas that includes a personal pool and totally different viewpoints, together with one proper on the seaside with easy accessibility to the water or one other increased up with panoramic views of the islands dotting the Gulf of Thailand.

Scenes will definitely happen at one of many resort’s many eating places and bars, like Koh Bar, which serves Thai wine; the poolside rum bar Cocorum, which has Asia’s solely rum vault; and Koh Thai Kitchen, a Thai restaurant with a thatched roof excessive up within the resort, making it a scenic perch to observe the goings on of no matter mischief takes place in Season Three.

In fact, the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui provides loads of different luxuries we have seen on the present, like non-public yachts to constitution and sail across the islands, a spa with an array of therapies, a beachfront infinity pool — and, in true Thai trend, a Muay Thai ring.

Charges on the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui begin round $1,033 per evening.

Factors various: The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui

If you wish to take a “White Lotus”-style trip to Koh Samui utilizing factors, there are a handful of nice choices throughout a number of applications, like IHG One Rewards, Hilton Honors and Marriott Bonvoy. However few are as luxe because the island’s Ritz-Carlton.

Set on 58 acres on the northeastern a part of Koh Samui, this Ritz-Carlton has many lodging varieties to select from, together with terrace suites with king beds and pool villas searching throughout the water.

Breakfast is served on the open-air Shook! restaurant, with Asian and Western choices on the menu, whereas different eating choices embrace a steakhouse, an Indian restaurant and even a dinner expertise that includes Thai avenue meals and dwell dancing on Saturday nights.

In the course of the day, friends can loosen up by the seaside or pool, get in a Muay Thai exercise, go to the spa for some relaxation and rest and even embark on a guided snorkel on the resort’s on-property swim reef that is freed from jellyfish and residential to 50 styles of fish.

Charges at The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui begin round $308 or 70,000 Marriott Bonvoy factors per evening.

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