https://simonandbaker.com First hand information on some of the most comfortable and luxurious destinations, accommodations, voyages, products, restaurants, spas and attractions for the discriminating traveler. Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://simonandbaker.com/ivory-lodge-lion-sands/#comment-40506 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:50:04 +0000 http://simonandbaker.com/wp/2007/11/01/ivory-lodge-lion-sands/#comment-40506 […] in the Simon and Baker Travel Review, our sister publication. The following year we also featured Ivory Lodge, 1933 (an exclusive use luxury rental house since closed) and Lalamuka Spa at Lion Sands in the Lion […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/cape-cadogan/#comment-40505 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:30:05 +0000 http://simonandbaker.com/wp/2006/11/01/cape-cadogan/#comment-40505 […] has changed in Cape Town, South Africa since we profiled the Owner’s Villa, part of the Cape Cadogan Boutique Hotel in 2006, in the Simon and Baker Travel Review, our sister […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/atlantide-golf/#comment-31558 Mon, 13 May 2024 13:01:13 +0000 http://simonandbaker.com/wp/2010/09/01/atlantide-golf/#comment-31558 Horrible experience
Sept 2023 • Solo
Had a horrible experience at Golf Atlantide yesterday Sept. 11, 2023. Arrived at 10:45 to discover a big tournament getting ready to tee off. Very busy. I checked in at the proshop and was told that there was an opening at 12:30. I agreed, and left my name and number should anything earlier become available. I then went and told the starter the same thing, and left my name and number. So what to do now with an hour and a half….I put my bag on a cart and went to hit balls…..advising the starter as I drove by that I’d be hitting balls and that she should call me if anything earlier came up. She said ok. 15 minutes later I am accosted by some dude from bag drop…..aggressively and rudely asking “what the hell are you doing here?” I explained that I’m hitting balls waiting for my time and he absolutely lost his mind and told me I have no right to be here……I can’t just take a cart and hit balls before checking in and paying. He was at this point totally out of control. I am guessing he had a bad morning setting up the tournament…..but to take out his frustration on a single gentleman hitting balls???? Come on man! So I suggested that he calm down and that I’d gladly go and pay now but he was having none of that…..he then arrogantly told me that he’s the Pro and there’s no time for me and I should leave. Wow! Shame on you Mr. Pro! You should know that customer experience is priority one and you miserably failed at that. Shame on the club manager and club owners for putting up with this kind of behaviour from their Pro/Bagdrop personnel. You should come to The Falcon, where I work, and we’ll show you how it’s done.

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/mashatu/#comment-27846 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:23:06 +0000 http://simonandbaker.com/wp/2008/05/01/mashatu/#comment-27846 […] been a while since we profiled Mashatu Main Camp at Mashatu Game Reserve, a safari property in a private reserve in Botswana’s Tuli Block, in 2008. At the time it was […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/restaurant-lasserre/#comment-26730 Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:23:05 +0000 https://simonandbaker.com/?p=5334#comment-26730 […] 2019 we profiled Restaurant Lasserre in Paris, France. Situated in the well known avenue Franklin Roosevelt the restaurant offered a […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/restaurant-le-meurice-alain-ducasse/#comment-26351 Tue, 23 May 2023 07:23:05 +0000 http://simonandbaker.com/?p=4846#comment-26351 […] a 2016* profile of the Restaurant le Meurice Alain Ducasse at the Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, France our team described their lunch as follows, “Our […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/hotel-le-meurice/#comment-25653 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:53:05 +0000 http://simonandbaker.com/wp/2011/03/01/hotel-le-meurice/#comment-25653 […] 2011* we profiled the Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, France and its eponymous restaurant following a brief team stay at the luxury property. […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/lakestone-lodge/#comment-24753 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:53:06 +0000 https://simonandbaker.com/?p=5352#comment-24753 […] to reply to our emails, two others have closed and one of the attractions is no longer in business. Lakestone Lodge and Cabot Lodge shared updates and responded to questions, see Update: NZ lodge near Fiordland […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/intrepid-south-island-new-zealand/#comment-24752 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:45:06 +0000 https://simonandbaker.com/?p=5398#comment-24752 […] 2019, following a trip to New Zealand and private tour, we profiled Aroha New Zealand Tours Intrepid, South Island. Three of the properties in that itinerary have failed to reply to our emails, two others have […]

]]> https://simonandbaker.com/lakestone-lodge/#comment-23842 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:05:06 +0000 https://simonandbaker.com/?p=5352#comment-23842 […] this year we reached out to the owners of Lakestone Lodge, originally profiled in 2019 following a South Island itinerary, to ask how the property is doing […]

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