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With so many incredible websites and online resources out there today, winning the 2011 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Award for Best Website last night at the travel industry’s most credible awards was incredibly touching and a huge honour, and we want to thank everyone for your support.
Just under a decade ago, Mr & Mrs Smith [...]
Sorry to brag, but hey, we’re starting to feel like James Cameron…
Mr & Mrs Smith has been cleaning up on the awards circuit recently. Fresh from our recent successes at the Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Awards (Best Travel Website runner-up) and the Travolution ceremony (Travel Brand of the Year; Best Accommodation-only Website), oops – we [...]
William Drew, host of the National Restaurant Awards and editor of Restaurant magazine, dishes the dirt on last night’s winners’ dinner event in London. On the menu? Flamboyant chefs, dazzling dishes, and some of the UK’s best restaurants, boutique-hotel bistros and restaurants with rooms…
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I’ve just emerged from a large room full of the UK’s most [...]
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 [...]
Today, a brief tale of David and Goliath, this battle taking place within the web-wide travel industry at last night’s Condé Nast Traveller Readers Travel Awards, held at the very grand and grown-up Royal Institution of Great Britain. Mr & Mrs Smith were up for Best Travel Website.
After a couple of drinks, Mrs Smith and [...]
The Caribbean summer is on its way – and you can save 25 per cent with our special offer: two reasons why Hermitage Bay this week is very hot indeed
Style Asian-inspired Caribbean cottages
Setting Secluded Antigua Bay
Why this week?
When we find a time or a reason not to visit Antigua, we’ll be sure to update [...]
It all began with a fabulous Portuguese farmhouse back in July. We’ve since raved about an A-list friendly LA villa, a cosy Norfolk cottage and a traditional Thames-side inn. But we just can’t keep our hotel-loving minds still and now we’re excited about — drum roll, please — a boutique guesthouse in the Cotswolds’ capital, [...]
How to follow a fabulous Portuguese farmhouse, a cosy Norfolk cottage and a trad Thamesside inn? Why, with another equally stunning boutique property, of course. This week, our fickle fancies turn to…
Scandal has rocked Mr & Mrs Smith’s Hotel of the Week awards in their infancy. One week into our virtual glory-giving and a cry has gone up from those in the Smith & Friends corner – why exclude all our luxury self-catering properties by limiting ourselves to hotels? Quick – change the title… There are [...]
Bolly corks are flying around Smith HQ like Wimbledon tennis balls today, and the level of group-hugging going on is almost sinister. Why such festivity? No, it’s not just Prince William’s right royal name-thievery earlier this week, we’re as pleased as Punch, as happy as Larry and as, er, delighted as Delia because the Smith [...]
