With over 100 of the world’s most luxury yachts smoothly sailing into Antigua’s beautiful harbours and gracing three of Antigua’s most exclusive and impressive marinas with their elegance and opulence, it is easy to understand why the annual Antigua Charter Yacht Show is in its 49^th year, and is one of the most elite events on the worldwide yachting calendar.

For six consecutive days –an extended duration on previous years – Nelson’s Dockyard Marina in English Harbour, the Falmouth Harbour Marina and the Antigua Yacht Club Marina, both located in Falmouth Harbour, are bestowed with a refined flock of oyster white deluxe yachts boasting flawless satin teak interiors, undoubtedly some of the finest yachts in the world let alone in the Caribbean.  

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When it was launched in December of 2008, the motivation behind Flight 112’s ‘Unique Wine Experience’ was for everyday people to have a luxury but organic wine experience.  Two year’s later Flight 112 is swiftly escalating in reputation and popularity, living proof that luxurious lifestyles can indeed be organic and not wasteful.

Flight 112 is an organic, luxury wine house situated in the infamous Mecca Building in Elmhurst. The Mecca Building houses the Glitch Art Gallery, which strives to create a unique and organic atmosphere. ‘Wellness’ also lies within Mecca’s walls, which provides chiropractor and wellness services, including massage therapy, acupuncture and nutritional counselling. Innovation, excellence, personalized attention is also transpired into Mecca’s Efigy Salon, which offers haircuts, colouring, re-texturizing and nail services.

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You are attending one of the greatest, elitist and grandest sporting events of the year. It might be the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Prix in Monaco or the Cannes International Yacht Show. With everyone attending these glamorous events looking like a million dollars, standing out from the crowd can be a difficult exploit to accomplish. But if you are determined to turn heads on your arrival we may have found the solution. Why not arrive in the most luxurious, extravagant way possible – by private jet.

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Orbital Technologies, a Moscow-based firm have proposed the idea of a Commercial Space Station to serve as a hub for travellers and as overspill accommodation for the International Space Station.

The plan is to create a four-room guest house that will be in orbit by 2016. Guests would be ferried from Earth to the hotel in a shuttle that is usually used to transport cosmonauts to the International Space station (ISS). It will follow the same orbit as the ISS and promises to provide greater comforts to space tourists in the place of the often cramped conditions within the ISS. Orbital Technologies have also revealed that guests will also be able to look at the Earth through large portholes.

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A train establishing a direct link between Moscow and the French Riviera was launched in September 2010 and is set to fulfil a growing demand for luxury railway travel in Russia.

The route between Russia and France has existed since the late 19^th Century and was used to transport wealthy Russians to resorts along the Cote d’Azur, but it was then abandoned in 1914. Now, after a century’s break, the train line has been restored by Russian railway company RZD who aim to provide an alternative to plane travel. Trains are the most popular method of transport in Russia and these luxury carriages will no doubt appeal to affluent Russians that wish to visit the South of France. The 12-car train will depart once a week and will travel a distance of 3,000 miles. The journey takes just over 50 hours to reach its final destination in Nice, including stopovers in Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and France.

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