Macao leads in Forbes Travel Guide 2018 with the most five-star hotels and restaurants

Macau 

This year’s edition of Forbes Travel Guide made Macao the city with the most number of “five-star” hotels and restaurants, surpassing Paris.

Hotels - After last year giving the victory to both Paris and Macao, for its 2018 edition the five-star award given to 12 Macao hotels placed the city on the top of the list, followed by Paris with 10 hotels, London with nine and Hong Kong with eight.

The coveted top award was receive in Macao by Altira, Banyan Tree, Conrad, Encore, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, MGM, Nuwa (former Crown Towers), Star Tower (at Studio City), Wynn Macau, Wynn Palace and The Ritz-Carlton.

Several of hotels in Macao were multiple awardees of the five-star awards, namely Wynn Macau and Mandarin Oriental with six five-star awards each, for the hotel, the spa and four restaurants. While Nuwa received five, for the hotel, the spa and three restaurants, followed by Altira with four awards on the top category.

In addition, six hotels in Macao received the Forbes four-star award, in tie with last year, namely Galaxy, Grand Hyatt, JW Marriott, Okura, St. Regis Cotai Central and The Venetian.

Galaxy Macaune

Restaurants - Macao was also the most awarded city in restaurants category with a total of 12 restaurants receiving the five-star accolade, one more compare to last year, while nine restaurants in Hong Kong received the top award.

The list of five-star restaurants awarded in Macao: Aurora (Altira), Belon (Banyan Tree), Golden Flower (Encore), Il Teatro, Mizumi and Wing Lei (Wynn), Jade Dragon (City of Dreams), Shinji by Kanesaka, Sushi Mizumi, The Tasting Room (City of Dreams), Tenmasa and Vida Rica (Mandarin Oriental).

With four-stars appear the restaurants: Andrea, Lai Heen, Mizumi, Wing Lei Palace and SW Steakhouse (Wynn Palace), Pearl Dragon (Studio City), Robuchon au Dôme (Grand Lisboa), Terrazza (Galaxy), Ying (Altira) and Zi Yat Heen (Four Seasons).

Spas - In the spas chapter, Macao is represented with eight of the best spas in the world, located at Wynn Palace, Wynn Macau, Mandarin Oriental, Encore, Nuwa, The Ritz-Carlton, Banyan Tree and Altira.

Forbes lists five reasons to visit Macao on its 2018 guide: the Galaxy swimming pools complex, the emerging restaurant scene, the luxury shopping, Macau Grand Prix and the contact with local culture in Coloane village.

The five-star accolade was given by Forbes in 2018 to a total of 199 hotels, along with 64 restaurants and 60 spas around the world.

Veerey and Geet share an amazing chemistry off screen as well

The lead actors of the upcoming family entertainer Veerey Ki Wedding, Pulkit Samrat (Veerey) and Kriti Kharbanda (Geet) have already given a glimpse of their sizzling on screen chemistry to the audience after the launch of the trailer recently. The duo shares an undeniably amazing equation not only on screen but off screen as well. They will be seen opposite each other for the first time in Veerey Ki Wedding. The audience is already in love with the duo and are eagerly waiting to see them together in the film. According to the actors, they first bonded on their common love for food on the sets.  Being true blue Punjabis, the actors share a passion for food and are always found sharing a bite of scrumptious snacks during breaks and in between shots as well!  They compliment each other very well on and off screen as well. Both Kriti and Pulkit say that they signed the movie just because the other was being cast opposite them and have also said that they will surely be excited to work with each other in the future as well. 

Make My Day Entertainments, A Panorama Studios release, Veerey Ki Wedding is produced by Rajat Bakshi, Parmod Gomber and co-produced by Chandan Bakshi and Karan Gomber. The movie is all set to hit the theaters this Holi, on 2nd March

Sony Max Highlights and Listings- 1st - 15th March

THU	1-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	SARRAINODU
FRI	2-Mar-18	08:00:00PM	DYNAMITE
SAT	3-Mar-18	08:00:00PM	TUMHARI SULU
SUN	4-Mar-18	08:00:00PM	KANCHANA THE WONDER CAR
MON	5-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	EKKADIKI
TUE	6-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	BHAIRAVAA
WED	7-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	YEVADU 2
THU	8-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	KATAMARAYUDU
FRI	9-Mar-18	08:00:00PM	TERA SUROOR
SAT	10-Mar-18	08:00:00PM	3 IDIOTS
SUN	11-Mar-18	08:00:00PM	SUPER KHILADI 4
MON	12-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	KANCHANA 2
TUE	13-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	POSTER BOYS
WED	14-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	THE RETURN OF REBEL 2
THU	15-Mar-18	09:00:00PM	SURA

Karan Johar tells everyone to take a ‘Self pity Spa’

Kjo has some really cool advices for his callers on his radio show- Calling Karan on Ishq 104.8 FM. While he has been getting calls round the globe on love and relationships, there was a recent caller who was brave enough to  openly speak up about her abusive relationship. While we talk about our society being liberal and its changing scenario, domestic violence and physical abuse is yet kept under wraps. 

In a recent episode, a caller shared her journey of being in an abusive relationship with her partner which took Karan aback.  KJo who is a confidant of many, clearly advised the caller to not entertain such things and not even sulk about it. He said, “Self-pity is a spa and you can stay in it for 5 days if you like and enjoy it. But one need to pull out of it too. He added that there should always be more support in a relationship than discouragement. 

Trailer launch of “Indian never Again Nirbhaya”

Diva Films productions and Shree Adhikary  & sons presents a film based on the true event of Delhi bus gang rape and murder  “Indian Never again Nirbhaya”.They are going to launch the trailer of the film at  a suburban preview theatre,Mumbai on 24th feb,2018. 

The film is produced by   Bidisha Adhikary and Kanchan Adhikary and directed by Payal Kashyap and K Adhikary. The music is given by Rupesh Verma.The film is starring Riecha Sharma, Bidisha Adhikary, Dinesh K Mehta, Ravi Kumar, Raju Kher, Shailendra Srivastava, Raju Shrestha, Anil Yadav, Gopal K. Singh, Pappu Polister, K. Adhikary, Kamaal Malik, Manish Raj, Rambhai Bharvad, Bablu Sah, Anjali, Mukesh Kumbani, Dr. P G Patel, Jeetendra Jyotishi, R G Patel, S G Patel, Rasti Achariya, Anita Bhat, Vinodbhai Nakum, Soma,Ganesh Gagan, Shyamapada Acharjee, Toshi Kashyap, Ganesh Chaudhary, Chandu, Vishal Singh, Tapesha Nand Mathur, Najjo Fazal, Pawan Kumar Barnwal, Raj Tripathi, Neha, Master Niv and Gehna Vasisth.

The film is based on the Delhi bus gang rape of December, 2012. The film producer   Bidisha Adhikary and Kanchan Adhikary  and director Payal Kashyap and K Adhikary alongwith the leads are present at event .

The producer K Adhikary quoted “the incident held in the capital on December, 2012 had been shuddering to the nation. The films based on such incident motives to highlighten the issue that now in 21st century also girls are not treated the way they should be. This is very shameful act. People who are involved in such type of mindset should have to give a thought. As the film is based on true event it was very difficult to change anything. At the time of shooting it was really hard for us to shoot some of the scenes, everyone was remembering the time when it was actually happening to that girl.” 

Manoj Nandwana of (JVEL ) is the distributor and marketing cunsoltant for India release of movie “Indian never Again Nirbhaya” will release on 20th April 2018.