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Our latest glamorous guidebook Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection: Australia/New Zealand is poised to hit the shops: it is officially out 25 November (£19.95), but you can order an advance copy now.
As you know, romantic and stylish is our shtick – and finally we’ve officially spread the love to the southern hemisphere. Barefoot-luxury lodges, [...]
Greece: home to the Olympics, the original action hero, and ouzo-swilling plate-smashing parties. As the evenings are setting in and a winter chill descends, now is the perfect time to flee for the fairer climes, feta cheese and famous sights of the Mediterranean land. And where better to be based than Athens’ Life Gallery? It’s [...]
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, [...]
As an award-winning blog, we thought it was about time we shared the love (or, more precisely, the awards) with a mini Oscars of our own: Mr & Mrs Smith presents… Hotel of the Week. As the catchy title suggests, there’ll be a weekly accolade awarded to the property du jour (or should that be [...]
Anyone who’s ever flown and has been subjected to the strange alternate reality of airline cuisine – perfect disc-shaped potatoes, geometrically cut meat, etc – will no doubt recall the letter that irate ad exec Oli Beale sent to Virgin head honcho Sir Richard Branson back in January. Oli’s account of his ‘culinary journey of [...]
Ok, so not all of you were taken in by our April Fools joke (Mr & Mrs Smith’s bendy-bus boutique hotels in Dubai), but if it piqued your interest in the UAE’s shopping, dining and tourism capital, Dubai, then you might like to learn a bit more about a real hotel there: Desert Palm, a [...]
I thought this might grab your attention.
And no, this isn’t merely a ruse using the age-old tactic of risqué connotation and celebrity name-dropping just to hook you in, only to find that the story has nothing to do with the headline: the bawdy and beautiful burlesque star Dita Von Teese really is one of our [...]
Well I don’t know about where you are, but it is a GORGEOUS day here in London town, so we thought we might try to lure you to our fair capital not only with spring sunshine, jolly daffs and unusually chipper citizens, but with a taster of one of our latest London hotel reviews: rejuvenated [...]
You might remember a couple of weeks back we spent a day raving about some of Britain’s Best Beach Cafés. As threatened promised at the time, Mr & Mrs Smith paid a visit to some of them, for – ahem – research purposes (nothing to do with the lure of knickerbocker glories, marshmallow-pink prawns, fresh [...]
If – like us – you’re an opinionated foodie (and we know you are), you’ll have some strong ideas about what you think are the best restaurants in London.
In fact, you’d probably leap at the chance to air those views in a constructive way. SO, hate it or rate it: why not help trusted restaurant [...]
