Year in Review

The Five Places That Stole My Heart in 2018

How to recreate the most memorable trips that Bloomberg Pursuits’s globetrotting travel editor took this year.

Overwater bungalows, the calling card of the Maldives.

Source: Soneva Jani

It’s always a whirlwind year of traveling when your job is to suss out the world’s most ambitious hotels and bucket list-worthy vacations. And while there were many individual moments that I’ll cherish from my travels in 2018—such as the benevolent spa therapist at Faena Miami Beach who practically raised me from the dead after a brutal conference—these are the destinations that made the most lasting impressions. I know I’ll return to all of them; follow in my footsteps and you likely will, too.