Rajive Menon

Rajive Menon is a luxury travel writer based between London and Singapore, specialising in the hotels and cultures of Asia and the Indian Ocean. Over twelve years he has reported from Balinese villas, Rajasthani palaces and the new generation of design-forward retreats reshaping the region. Rajive is fascinated by how the best properties translate local craft and ritual into a guest experience — the welcome, the bath, the meal — without tipping into pastiche. His writing is detail-rich and quietly opinionated, and he's as interested in the housekeeping and the breakfast as the marble lobby. He believes luxury is really about time and attention, not thread count, and he writes to help discerning travellers spend both well. When he isn't travelling he studies languages, badly, and hunts down the best noodles in whatever city he's landed in.