Deep into luxury

At high altitude over Spain, blogging through wifi after a fabulous short visit to Barcelona and the Costa Brava. I will start with the amazing Alva Park at Platja de Fenals. The perfect place to escape the autumnal world and sink deep into luxury…

Check in at the stunning Alva Park hotel…

Suite 163 - just the best

Greeted by the lovely staff

Luxuriating at the spa...

Relaxing in the magical Princess Bath

 And sinking into the luxury of our suite...

The beds are just great

 

Your own spa in the suite

And meals to keep up the impeccable standard...

The breakfast is perfect

My breakfast rose

Having a wonderful evening ...

At Alva Park's unique Butterfly Restaurant

Lovely Judy at our service

 

Delicious food

More delicious food

The butterflies dining as well

 

Evening finished with white roses for me

A great conclusion! Alva Park and the Butterfly Restaurant is just perfect if you want to celebrate some special occasion.

Here the butterflies are growing soon
ready to spread their wings

The exotically tropical Butterfly Garden

 

One of the many beautiful butterflies you
can watch during the dinner

This exotic environment came originally from Costa Rica, bringing the tropics to Spain and Alva Park. 

You can also have a courtesy car to explore the real world, where you can find small medieval towns and top level cosy restaurants.

This smart little car free of charge

For the children

A while back I attended a philanthropic event. We watched beautiful Balinese dancing, and all the money raised during an auction that evening went to children in need in Indonesia. One of the organizers is a very special person…

Kanthi Beck

Kanthi is the Founder of the International Philanthropic Society of Stockholm (IPS). She is not just a lovely person and a good friend but also an admirer and frequent client of Select Collection Travel & Spa

The evening was sponsored by the Indonesian Embassy, so many thanks to…

The Ambassador of Indonesia & his wife

The event was held at the Volvo show room in Kungsträdgården (the King’s former garden). Volvo is another of the sponsors, and so was Select Collection. We donated wonderful Spa treatments for the auction.

Åke and me

 

Guests

 

Pirjo and Samantha enjoying the evening

Since the money from the auction was for children in Indonesia, I would like to show some  lovely images of hotels in Bali - tourism to Bali also helps the welfare of the children ...

 

Banyan Tree Ungsan Bali

The Legian Bali

St Regis Pool Villa Bali.

Yachting not cruising

Yesterday we invited guests to our Stavanger office to present small ship cruising with SeaDream. This is yachting not cruising as SeaDream would say.

Our office in wet and windy Stavanger -
a perfect place for warmer sea dreams

SeaDream is a Norwegian company with two mega yachts, SeaDream I and SeaDream II. They take no more than 112 guests, sail to places larger ships can't go, and are the only cruise line to have a watersports marina with jet skis and other fun activities.

Jannicke, sales director at SeaDream
bringing warm sea dreams to life

Gourmet meals, wine and Champagne are all included in the rate. A cruise with SeaDream starts from approximately 22 000 NOK per person for 7 nights and will vary with season, destination and chosen accommodation.



 

Screen set up and givewaway bags

 

Guests coming in from the cold to our warmth

Office manager Petra in action

Interacting with our valued guests

Appropriately delicious

Jannicke presenting SeaDream to our guests

Comfortably seated for the
inspiring presentation

 

The beautiful miniature of SeaDream in our
office window to keep the Dream alive...