Monday, October 03, 2011

I SHARED A BED WITH PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCESS KATE




It wasn't until the second day of our visit on North Island in the Seychelles that we learned we were staying in the same villa where Prince William and Princess Kate hunkered down for their honeymoon just a few weeks earlier.


Pretty sweet digs. But the least you'd expect when the tariff is $3,000 per day. Per person.


Every now and then, being a travel writer on assignment has its perks.










There are only 11 villas on the entire island -- maximum of 44 guests with about 150 staff to look after them. Meaning, there is plenty of pampering.







One morning, my wife and I set out on a two-hour hike with the island's naturalist. It was a fairly grueling leg-stretcher, the weather quite hot. When we returned to the villa, the bath was already drawn and waiting for us, with orchids floating atop the bubbles, a bottle of champagne chilling in an ice bucket, a box of truffles nearby.















Yeah, a guy could get used to the royal treatment.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, rub it in, Bob, rub it in. So for $6,000 a night my husband and I can share the same bed as you and your wife?