Hints and tips:
...There are, after all, only eight clubs in the Chinese territory and not all accept visitors....
...But there are also concierges to service any and all business needs, from cars to translators — as well as an excellent Club Lounge, and some of the speediest butler service I’ve ever had....
...Once there, residents mostly zip around on golf carts. Often described as “one of America’s richest zip codes”, Fisher Island is also beset by semi-regular scandals....
...She picks me up in her turquoise golf cart, the preferred method of transportation on this 216-acre island of golf courses, restaurants, apartment buildings, a gym and a school, a community indistinguishable...
...world’s most expensive golf carts, going for $250,000 apiece....
...Given all that, how could such an audacious project get the go-ahead? Why would someone even consider trying to open a golf club nearly one-and-a-half times the size of Manhattan?...
...But unless you fit a tow-bar and mowing attachment, the car, for all its many capabilities, won’t mow the lawn....
...He began collecting brochures on Ebay of early electric vehicles – “goofy little cars”, he calls them, with style and performance little better than golf carts....
...1,000 cars, 10,000 people as well as chandeliers and countless bottles of champagne)....
...homes with full concierge service, golf courses and a beach club....
...So do the area’s 80 golf courses (air-conditioned carts a speciality). Bars waft water vapour into the air to encourage outdoor drinkers....
...The finest service the press office could give him would be to book him on easyJet and GNER more often and publicly to snap his golf clubs in half....
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