4 Seasons motels 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, perhaps 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 kids,” as Armond, the supervisor of the fictional “White Lotus” resort on Maui, instructed his workers earlier than his premature demise?

Both means, you possibly can stay out your “White Lotus” fantasies by visiting the real-life 4 Seasons resorts the place the smash HBO sequence was filmed. And to indicate you simply how candy a keep at one in every of these resorts is — you recognize, with out the drama the friends on the present expertise — we despatched a few of TPG’s finest to every of the three featured 4 Seasons resorts to movie their experiences.

Here is every thing you should know concerning the 4 Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, the posh Hawaiian resort the place the primary season was filmed; the San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Lodge, 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 sequence.

Sadly, 4 Seasons does not have a loyalty program, so if you happen to determine to go to one in every of these stunning (and costly!) motels, you want a workaround to snag some elitelike advantages.

Contemplate reserving by our associate Skylark for property credit, potential room upgrades and late checkout (when out there). Or, you probably have The Platinum Card® from American Categorical, you possibly can e book by American Categorical High quality Resorts + Resorts to get perks like day by day breakfast for 2, property credit and assured late checkout.

In case your trip finances is not fairly as massive as Tanya McQuoid’s, we have additionally discovered points-based alternate options to think about that’ll aid 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 every of Hawaii’s most luxurious resorts, the 4 Seasons Resort Maui. Within the in style resort space of Wailea, this 4 Seasons is vibrant, ethereal and, in true 4 Seasons fashion, completely refined (however with a tropical twist).

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

E book a remedy 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 stay music. Or, simply laze the day away and order room service.

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

All are adorned in muted tones that replicate the pure fantastic thing about Maui and have lanais that enable friends to have a non-public outside house to breathe within the salty ocean air.

To take a luxurious journey to this resort to the subsequent degree, 4 Seasons may help manage a non-public aircraft to the island by its associate NetJets.

The on-site concierge group also can manage unimaginable actions like personal helicopter excursions over the island with stops for espresso tastings, hula classes and outrigger excursions to see the ocean from a unique perspective.

Additionally, if you should get out on a ship (is it even “The White Lotus” if Tanya is not on a ship in some unspecified time in the future?), the resort can manage a non-public 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 lots of of {dollars} an evening throughout peak seasons.

Factors different: Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort

Simply down the street from the 4 Seasons, the Andaz Maui is a well-liked Hyatt resort you possibly can e book utilizing factors. The corporate has a positive award chart and provides lots of the identical facilities as 4 Seasons.

This resort is a superb different if you will discover 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 chill out in one in every of 5 totally different swimming pools: three infinity swimming pools, a lagoon-style pool and an adults-only tranquility pool.

At evening, chill out with a drink close to an out of doors fireplace pit or e book a desk for “The Feast at Mokapu Luau,” an interactive present that tells the story of Hawaii by 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 seashore bar and an out of doors lounge that is the right spot to look at the solar set.

Just like the 4 Seasons, the Andaz Maui has trendy, well-appointed rooms, suites and even villas, all of which have personal lanais. If you actually need to unfold out, take into account reserving one of many multiroom villas, a few of which function personal swimming pools or sizzling 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 Lodge

Regardless of what Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya would possibly assume, there isn’t any queen of Sicily. Nonetheless, you will actually really feel like royalty after a keep at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A 4 Seasons Lodge — 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 manager suite with a plunge pool and sea view. The decor is gentle, vibrant and breezy. Rooms additionally showcase Italian artwork and marble loos.

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 remedies, like a San Domenico sizzling stone therapeutic massage or a customized physique remedy wrap.

Take a look at a number of the experiences out there 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 superb technique to study concerning the island’s mixture of Arab and North African cultural influences.

The 4 Seasons group also can 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 personal lunch.

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

Room availability could be spotty, and charges are steep — so e book rapidly forward of the resort reopening for the season March 1.

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

Factors different: Delta Resorts Giardini Naxos

For many who aren’t 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 Resorts Giardini Naxos, which is a part of Marriott Bonvoy. The beachfront resort showcases views of the Ionian Sea and has a non-public seashore, 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 high 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 high-quality eating, La Sciara options Sicilian delicacies and wines. The Brezza Seashore 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 comfy furnishings with a mixture of vibrant upholstery and darkish wooden furnishings. Sea views are solely supplied with superior and deluxe visitor rooms and suites. The one-bedroom presidential suite, the last 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 sights embrace Mount Etna, one of many world’s most energetic volcanos and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps, and the Alcantara Gorges, a river mattress courting again 300,000 years.

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

Season 3: 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui

Although we’ll have to attend for Season Three to unfold, we will 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 good looking vacation spot for vacationers who need to take pleasure in crystalline waters, boat round stunning pure formations, hike to hidden waterfalls or simply chill out 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 every of 60 villas that includes a non-public pool and totally different viewpoints, together with one proper on the seashore with quick access to the water or one other larger 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 look at the goings on of no matter mischief takes place in Season Three.

After all, the 4 Seasons Resort Koh Samui provides loads of different luxuries we have seen on the present, like personal yachts to constitution and sail across the islands, a spa with an array of remedies, a beachfront infinity pool — and, in true Thai style, a Muay Thai ring.

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

Factors different: 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 couple of packages, 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 looking 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 stay dancing on Saturday nights.

In the course of the day, friends can chill out by the seashore 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 kinds of fish.

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

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