Archive for the 'Boutique hotels' Category
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Our offer of the year – 2 nights for the price of 1 – across a wealth of properties in the UK, Paris and Morocco has been behind many a judging decision when it comes to pinpointing Hotel of the week of late. Now, the offer has just one week left to run. You’ve got [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
We Smiths like to rank ourselves rather highly in the cookery stakes. In fact, a week rarely goes by without Gareth bringing in baking-parchment parcels containing new-recipe treats or Anthony relaying his latest culinary combinations (eg. pork balls and rice for breakfast). But if there’s any time of year when you need skills in the [...]
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Jelly. A curious entity – reminiscent of school days, lumpy custard and Seventies trifles. Many would agree it’s an unlikely object of passion. Not Bompas & Parr, the oddballs behind the Horseless Carriage of Curiosities, Flavour Tripping and the breathable cocktail. Their slippery creations include wobbly wedding cake-alternatives for adventurous brides, alcoholic stars for Courvoisier, [...]
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
We’ve taken to the skies this week and, after looping the loop over farm and field, we have landed in Hampshire to award our Hotel of the Week accolade to one-of-a-kind aeronautical affair, the Aviator hotel…
Style: Silver belle
Setting: Airfields of Farnborough
Why this week? Until the end of the year, you can stay Friday and Saturday [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Hampshire, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 6th, 2009
The polls are closed, the votes are in (and have been checked by an independent adjudicator), and this week’s elected hotel of choice is Vienna’s parliamentary neighbour, The Levante Parliament…
Style: Streamlined chrome cool
Setting: Oh, Vienna
Why this week? Austria’s opulence seduces with every passing season but this time of year is especially spectacular, because Christmas and [...]
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Posted in Austria, Boutique hotels, Vienna, offer | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Our reviewers for our new guidebook were, as ever, a panel of people we admire and respect, all of whom have impeccable taste, and who we trusted to report back to us on Smith hotels with total honesty. The only thing we asked of them? That they visited each hotel anonymously with a partner and, [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
It can be tough sometimes, working for boutique travel experts, whose daily tasks include jetting around the world, seeking out glamour-soaked hotels in wow-factor destinations. No really, it can. Especially when said work involves testing out our luxurious hotels’ facilities, just to check they are still as top-notch as ever - the spa for instance, [...]
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Posted in Activities, Eating & drinking, London, Spa, Travel tips, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, Worth getting out of bed for, spa hotels, spa treatments | 3 Comments »
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
The French may be busy fermenting grapes and bringing out the Beaujolais, but while they’re up to their elbows in viticulture, we’ve brought in a harvest of our own: the cream of France’s boutique-hotel crop…
Washed up on the shores of southern Brittany, we found Le Lodge Kerisper, a cosy portside cabin in the sailing [...]
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
This week, we’re donning our snoods* and heading to Canada, home to mountie, moose and maple. Toronto is a shimmeringly clean city of towering high-rises, and, in winter, has that kind of fresh chilly air that makes you glad to be alive (and wearing a coat). It’s a also a great place to do your [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Our latest glamorous guidebook Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection: Australia/New Zealand is poised to hit the shelves: and it’s our boldest expression of wanderlust yet. From the lush wet plains of Australia’s Top End, via the iconic beaches and islands of the east coast, right through to the Middle Earth peaks of New Zealand’s [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Melbourne, New Zealand, Sydney, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »