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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby
9PM, BBC2
Giles Coren and Monica Galetti return with a second series in which they go behind the scenes of some of the world’s most extraordinary hotels. This episode finds them flying to French Polynesia to visit an eco-conscious retreat in the middle of the South Pacific; the brainchild of actor Marlon Brando, this private island resort on the Tetiaroa atoll is nothing short of breathtaking. ‘It’s not been my dream to come here,’ says Giles as he steps off the private plane, ‘but now that I’ve seen it, I realise it should have been.’ Quite.