Luxury Hoteliers Magazine 1st Quarter 2018 | Page 52

6 Star THE th EXPERIENCE By Colin Cowie As a lifestyle expert, event planner, author and interior designer, I tend to spend more time living out of a suitcase than I do in the comfort of my own home. As a result, I’ve become intimately familiar with the “5-star experience” and what it really means to be a luxury hotel. Not only have I designed and opened some of these hotels, I’ve also experienced their services first-hand by staying at them as a guest. I tend to travel almost 200 days a year. I have clocked in excess of 13.5M miles in my never-ending search for luxury on behalf of my extraordinary clients. 52 ILHA