Get the low-down from the original style-seekers' latest good-time hunting expeditions, find destination inspiration and insider tips from around the world. Welcome to the official Smith blog: we hope you enjoy your stay
Hot on the heels of our last (wildly successful, if you’ll pardon the impudence) two-for-one promotion with The Times comes another boutique giveaway – but this time, it’s super-size. No less than 70 hotels have made the cut (compared to the last lineup of 40 finds), dotted across glamorous locations such as Italy, Spain, Portugal [...]
There are rooms with views. There are hotels with views. And then there are the best hotels with views in the world. Since we at Smith don’t like to do things by halves (we’re all about romantic escapes with you other half, after all), we’ve rounded up our pick of the globe’s most scenic stays, [...]
The onset of autumn has left us craving an exotic adventure – we’re dreaming of untamed forests, wild animals’ roars and sun, glorious sun. Our greed is such that we can’t choose just one, so in a Hotel of the Week exclusive, we’ve picked two: Singita Lebombo and Singita Sweni. Located in the sky-high foliage [...]
Luxury Travel Bible’s formidable founder and Editor in Chief Hilary Doling is a woman after our own hearts. Well-travelled, well-read and well-versed in the high-threadcount trappings of luxury travel, she kindly pressed pause on her champagne-tasting, helicopter-flying, wildlife-spotting, Charleston-soundtracked life (sheesh, somebody get me her job!) to give Mr & Mrs Smith a whirlwind tour [...]
Prepare your palates for free-range pork belly, dauphinoise potatoes, artichoke risotto with parsley and Kent cobnuts, and pan-seared Falmouth scallop and pancetta. Did we mention that this is just one of five courses? Or that you’re feasting in someone’s private dining room, with the professional chef concocting his creations in the ensuite kitchen? Welcome to [...]
This month, we crossed the, er, two corners of the globe to see what’s going on hotel-wise down in Europe and the Americas…
On the Jersey Shore, we found Bungalow Hotel, a stylish surf house seconds from the sea, and just an hour out of Manhattan. In San Francisco, we crossed the Golden Gate to Sausalito [...]
Creamy sand beaches and a lively, cosmopolitan personality – Cape Town has enough to attract any beach chair connoisseur or bon viveur. But it’s especially beloved by international celebrities who flock to South Africa for sun-kissed R ’n’ R. Camille de Mondesir enjoyed a gossip with convivial Capetonian, Troy Goatley, who kindly (if a little [...]
Wondering what books to take away with you this autumn? We’re looking to The Guardian for advice.
There’s a great article by Sarah Crown in today’s newspaper on the best reads around. Indeed, we can’t think of a better way to spend a weekend than curled up by a fire with the likes of Peter Ackroyd, [...]
Dreary British rain has left us longing for a tropical getaway and the bathtub-warm waters of the Caribbean – it’s time to migrate to Parrot Cay. We also love the idea that Bruce Willis could be sitting in the comfy poolside lounge chair right next to us…
Style Sun-sprinkled spa sanctuary
Setting Private island’s mile-long [...]
Well, goodness. There we were being crushingly disappointed honoured and humbled to be named runner-up in the Condé Nast Readers Awards, and barely had the champagne bottle gone out with the recycling, when along comes Travolution with a double whammy of gongs.
Mr & Mrs Smith loves a jolly makes a point of attending key events [...]
