My favorite hotel is...
Probably the Plaza Athenee in Paris. I always like to do a bit of shopping when I’m in Paris – YSL, a couple of vintage joints. Usually I’m just two steps behind my wife [the fashion designer Rachel Roy].
I always travel with …
Towels. I don’t like using other people’s towels.
I’m not interested in…
I like my wife to be the one pampering me. It’s too intimate, all that rubbing and stuff . I’d rather be touched like that by someone who loves me.
No matter where I am…
I’ll always have a cheeseburger, as long as the beef is right. I’m not inter interested in eating the cuisine of the country I’m in. The best burger I’ve ever had was at Jackson Hole in New York. That was off the hook – really big and really good. I’ve never eaten fish in my life. Fish are disgusting. I must have been a fish in another life or something.
I’m planning a trip to …
Ayrshire in Scotland. I’ve never been before, but it’s where my range of vodka is from. Every time I’m drunk, I think of Scotland.
The worst vacation I’ve ever had was…
When I was bodysurfing with my son in Mexico and broke my collarbone. It was so painful.
I love being…
On my yacht in St Barts. That’s awesome fun. I just eat, sunbathe and listen to music. I used to have a house in London, right in Chelsea, which I really like too. I liked the British – they’ve got great humour.
My ideal traveling companions are …
My wife, my daughter and my son. I love vacations with my family. For me, the best view I could have on a holiday is my wife sunbathing in front of me.
I would never…
Fly economy, not if I can help it. I like to travel private, but if I can’t fly private, I go first class.
I can’t live without…
Some music. I always have an iPod or my computer with me. I’ll listen to pretty much everything. At the moment I’m into Citizen Cope and Alice Smith.
My first holiday…
Was to Disney World in the States when I was a kid. I took my son and my daughter a while ago. They loved it, a lot more than I did. I’m too old for it now.
My top travel tip would be…
Make sure you don’t travel with any weed in your pocket. Take it out before you get to the airport.
· Damon Dash is best known as the cofounder of Roc-A-Fella Records (along with Jay-Z ), for discovering Kanye West, and working with Victoria Beckham. He now runs companies producing everything from hip hop to vodka and a new online social networking website,
www.blocksavvy.com).
