Luxury is dead, Bensley's luxury hotel is being reborn.

If you want to go on vacation in Southeast Asia but don't know which hotel to stay in, look for Bill Bensley. Having designed more than 200 luxury hotels in 30+ countries around the world, Bill Bensley possesses the radical, eclectic and deep fascination that a talented designer would have. His most classic saying is "Luxury is dead" - "Luxury is dead". He was extremely disgusted by the "landowners" of luxury hotel groups who were destroying the original environment in order to build large hotels with hundreds of rooms. 🔹Capella Ubud, Bali, known as the "No. 1 wild luxury in Asia", was "saved" from Bensley. The owners wanted to convert the site into a 120-room traditional luxury hotel, and Bensley was brought in as the designer. Therefore, Bensley was inspired by the first Dutch people to land in Bali and persuaded the owners to convert the original hotel into wild luxury tents, with only 23 tents. In order not to damage the original environment, these tents were erected in mid-air. 🔹The tent design also combines the story of the Dutch explorers. Monkeys and traditional wood carving elements can be seen everywhere in the interior decoration, but there is also a Western-style bed surrounded by gauze curtains. Here, Eastern and Western cultures have a wonderful collision, just like the Dutch expedition My family came to Bali that year. 🔹However, if we want to talk about the pinnacle of Bill Bensley’s efforts to protect the local environment, we have to mention [Shinta Mani Wild]. 🔹At that time, Bensley heard that the Cambodian government was about to sell a forest with approximately 875,000 trees, 4.5 kilometers of rivers and 3 waterfalls. In order to prevent this ecologically rich virgin forest from becoming a logging site, he resolutely bought the land and transformed it into the most proud work of his life [Shinta Mani Wild]. As Bensley's own hotel, everything is Create according to the most ideal appearance. 🔹All guests need to check in through the high-altitude cableway. Once entering this primeval forest, they seem to be isolated from urban life. 15 wild luxury tents with an area of ​​about 100 square meters are scattered along rivers and waterfalls. Living here is not like a guest, but more like an aborigine. You can watch birds, recognize butterflies, fish, and picnic at waterfalls. This is [Shinta Mani Wild ] daily life. 🔹But what’s even more amazing is that because of Bensley’s existence, the residents of the area have also been given a new life: the original loggers and poachers were hired as engineering teams, without cutting down a single tree during the period, and Bensley also built a hotel school , after rigorous training, local children also have the opportunity to work in hotels. In these unconventional ideas, Bensley truly announced the demise of traditional luxury. For him, what he achieved was not only luxury hotels that implemented sustainable concepts, but also local communities that continued to develop. If you are interested in Bensley Hotel, please welcome Didi.