Featured Image for An Insider’s Guide to Berlin

Cool Travel

The world is full of amazing places – natural and man-made. Our team travel the globe in search of the absolute best; spectacular, inspiring places that make you gawk with disbelief. Plan a trip or explore from your desk. It’s up to you.

Know your stuff? Contribute now

Liquid floors at The Edge, Bali

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in Cool Travel on Monday 15 April 2013

What could be more relaxing than spa treatment in a beautiful room overhanging a cliff in Bali? Now, imagine if that spa had liquid floors. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as liquid floors! Welcome to the Edge spa. Everything about the design is meant to exude luxury and relaxation.

Read more

Extreme Environment Love Hotel: comes with added gravity

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Friday 12 April 2013

This whole love thing, it can be uplifting, or it can pull us down like gravity. Ai Hasegawa‘s Extreme Environment Love Hotel reimagines the love hotel as a centrifugal mechanism with Jupiter’s gravity, which is more than double (2.34 times, to be exact) of what we’re used to on Earth. This means, for instance, that [...]

Read more (1 comment)

Melbourne’s Music Swop Shop: buy second hand instruments

Ainslie Wills Reader Find

By Ainslie Wills in Cool Travel on Friday 12 April 2013

For musicians, being in this store is like being a kid in candy store. The Music Swop Shop is a must see for any local or visiting musician to Melbourne, they sell second-hand musical instruments of all shapes, sizes and sounds.

Read more

The Orange Public House and Hotel, London

Zac Contributor

By Zac in Cool Travel on Wednesday 10 April 2013

The Orange hotel is nestled at the top of a classic, refurbished bar and restaurant in London’s Belgravia. In the popular bar downstairs the Orange is a favourite for the discerning locals from nearby Chelsea and Belgravia, while upstairs the four upmarket ensuite bedrooms draw guests from around the world looking for a truly unique London homebase.

This content series brought to you by Emirates - HELLO TOMORROW

Read more

Twenty and Six Espresso: the best coffee in Melbourne?

Ainslie Wills Reader Find

By Ainslie Wills in Cool Travel on Tuesday 9 April 2013

This is where I get my daily caffeine fix in North Melbourne. Set up by a couple of designers turned cafe owners, they make, in my opinion, the best coffee in Melbourne without the coffee snobbery and they also have an impressive menu to boot.

Read more

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: The Emirates Business class experience

Zac Contributor

By Zac in Cool Travel on Friday 5 April 2013

The business footprint of Lost At E Minor spans Australia, the US and the UK. So when I needed to head over to the UK to meet with some of our commercial partners, I was lucky enough to fly there with our friends at Emirates. It was certainly an unforgettable experience, resulting in the Hello Tomorrow content series we’ve been running over the past few weeks.

Read more (2 comments)

The only underwater bar in the world: Israel’s Red Sea Star

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in Cool Travel on Thursday 4 April 2013

Welcome to the only underwater bar in the world! Enjoy exotic seafood and meat dishes in style as you wine and dine under the sea at the Red Sea Star. Plan your next party there. Be the talk of all your friends. Or maybe go above, then beyond, to propose to that special someone. It’s the [...]

Read more

Kazakhstan’s remarkable Palace of Peace and Reconciliation

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in Cool Travel on Thursday 4 April 2013

Kazakhstan’s new capital city of Astana is home to a huge, futuristic pyramid structure – the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation – created to house the triennial ‘congress of world and traditional religions’. The stunning project was designed by Foster and Partners and ate up 8.74 billion kazakh tenge (as in £35 million or US$53 [...]

Read more

Gate of National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in Cool Travel on Thursday 4 April 2013

National Civil Rights Museum is notable for several reasons. One, it’s the actual location of MLK’s assassination. The museum is the original motel building. And it actually houses police evidence concerning the investigation. Recently, money was donated by theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand. The museum is now a full campus with a stronger focus on education [...]

Read more

Lake Hillier in Australia: the prettiest lake in pink

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Tuesday 2 April 2013

We’ve seen all types of lakes: blue, mossy, muddy… so Lake Hillier completely defies our notions of what lakes should look like. The lake water in it is completely pink and looks like strawberry milk. The hue is thought by biologists to be caused by low nutrient concentrations as well as the dunaliella salina and [...]

Read more

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: No cold feet at this boutique hotel

Zac Contributor

By Zac in Cool Travel on Saturday 30 March 2013

Luxury boutique hotel Eccleston Square Hotel claims to be London’s most high tech hotel, and it’s easy to see why. While the rooms are gorgeous enough, they are also fitted out with 46” high-definition 3D plasma TVs, surround sound systems, iPod docking stations, VoIP phones and your very own iPad to tinker with. For those [...]

Read more

Buy a luxury private island yacht

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in Cool Travel on Friday 29 March 2013

What are you planning to do when you retire? I don’t know about you, but I’m planning to buy this luxury island yacht. That’s right. Orsos Island is the best of both worlds. You don’t need to decide between renting a private island or buying a yacht. Just order an island yacht! Hopefully this concept will be available  [...]

Read more (1 comment)

Ampersand the Conery: tasty gourmet Ice Cream Cones

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in Cool Travel on Thursday 28 March 2013

The humble ice cream cone. Since making its debut at the St Louis World’s Fair in 1904, it hasn’t changed all that much. Ampersand the Conery are looking to change that. This fledgling food startup is, in their words, “re-imaging the cone.” The vision is to create a more dynamic, ice cream cone market. One where flavours [...]

Read more

Mr & Mrs Smith: a stylish getaway in Portland

Alexandra Rutman Reader Find

By Alexandra Rutman in Cool Travel on Thursday 28 March 2013

Portland, on the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, is shaping up as the new Seattle/Melbourne, with its passion for indie music, coffee and cycling. Oregon’s low-rise, river-bestriding capital has long taken a creative approach to city planning, ensuring its heritage architecture remains pristine and independent stores, arts spaces, bars and cafés flourish. For a stylish getaway, [...]

Read more

ABICUS: The best of fashion and music in Newcastle

Cormack O'Connor Contributor

By Cormack O'Connor in Cool Travel on Wednesday 27 March 2013

Ever since it opened back in 2000, ABICUS has been my favourite store. Run by husband and wife duo Tim McPhee (yes, of Firekites fame) and Tiffany Minell, ABICUS brings the best of fashion and music together and serves it up on a shiny slab of amazingly polished concrete. We caught up with Tiff to [...]

Read more