Luxury hotel brand Mandarin Oriental has launched a US$10,000-a-night helicopter package to whisk guests between two of its lakeside properties. Rose Dykins reports
The new Lake-to-Lake Helicopter Experience from Mandarin Oriental provides hotel guests the chance to transfer between properties in Italy’s Lake Como and Lake Geneva with ease, speed and style.
As Globetrender predicted in its report on Travel in the Age of Covid-19, Isolation Vacations are a big trend in 2020.
Being confined to our homes during lockdown has been a time to conjure up plans for the future, including bucket list trips. And a helicopter ride over the Alps is the kind of private, exclusive experience that will appeal in a world that’s still social distancing.
Guests can stay at the Mandarin Oriental, Geneva and Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como, and travel between the two properties in a five-seater private helicopter.
With the Lake-to-Lake Helicopter Experience, guests spend one night at a suite in each of the Mandarin Oriental hotels.
They can start at whichever hotel they prefer, and the package also includes limousine airport transfers, a bespoke three-course dining experience at each hotel, daily breakfast for two and a bottle of champagne on arrival at both properties.
Set along a bank of the River Rhône, Mandarin Oriental, Geneva is right in the centre of the picturesque Swiss city.
Mandarin Oriental, Geneva is famed for its Peruvian restaurant, Yakumanka, headed up by Gaston Acurio. Designed in the style of a traditional Peruvian ceviche restaurant, it has an open kitchen and a wide selection of pisco-based cocktails.
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