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
Our indomitable head of hotel relations, Peggy, just landed back in Smith HQ from a mission to find the crème de la crème of hotels in Paris. Anthony harassed her for the luxury lowdown…
Anthony So Peggy, you’ve been noseying around Paris for Mr & Mrs Smith – where did you go and what did you [...]
Just a quick update on Anthony’s recent post about world domination our hotels being featured in the Harper’s Bazaar travel directory. (You can read the original post here, if you missed it the first time round.)
Now, thanks to some clever
web trickery, you can also read candid reports by our roving team of anonymous Mr & [...]
Another month, another mouth-watering selection of boutique hotels…
After last month’s tropical island extravaganza, our hotel-hunters have been dividing their time trans-atlantically, pinpointing hot new hotels in some fabulous North American destinations, as well as a fresh flurry of stylish stays in the UK.
As promised last week, Juliet’s travels in Toronto have borne some snazzy hotel-shaped [...]
After another weekend of scrambling to pick up suits from the dry-cleaners, frantic headlong dashes down the motorway, whirlwind costume changes in hotel rooms, getting lost en route to tiny village churches and then realising you’re actually an hour early, the summer-wedding season is officially (read: thankfully) over.
Hopefully - if it was you saying ‘I [...]
Juliet’s been boutique-hotel hunting in not-actually-capital-of-Canada Toronto; Anthony caught up with her when she touched back down…
Anthony Good to have you back Juliet – where have you been gallivanting to then?
Juliet Hello. I was in North America… New York in July - whew - now that is hot. And I had a cheeky little few [...]
For exactly 100 years, this year, the world has been unquestioningly accepting one of the oddest trends ever to infiltrate the hotel industry - the Gideons. Yes, the sneaky evangelists have been ‘placing’ their maroon preacher-pamphlets in bedside drawers for a century. We don’t know if the scripture-scattering organisation is planning some sort of party [...]
Hotel soundscape designer, Music Concierge founder, and Mr & Mrs Smith’s very own TuneSmith Rob Wood explains why music is a key part of the boutique hotel experience, and wonders why so many get it wrong…
As a hotel music consultant, I can be something of a difficult customer when I check in for a weekend [...]
Lara Dunston asked us recently how we went about finding the wow-inducing boutique hotels in our collection. Juliet has been blogging about what checkboxes a hotel has to tick before it gets into the Smith collection (and a darned fine job she did too), but that doesn’t explain how we’ve got to the front desk [...]
Ah – the Great British seaside, a holiday institution that has seen more revivals and reinventions than Madonna’s on-stage wardrobe. With the Euro gaining strength, the credit crunch biting (anyone else sick of hearing that term already?) and growing interest in train travel and supporting local enterprise, making the most of our very own coast [...]
Reading Tam’s recent posts about Ilse Crawford’s new venture and the Barnsley House boys’ latest acquisition, I couldn’t help wondering (in true Carrie Bradshaw style) whether we’ll be seeing an explosion in polished designer ‘boozers with bedrooms’ in the next year or two. If this turn of events does become a trend, I don’t think [...]
