Archive for the 'Independent reviews' Category
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
At Mr & Mrs Smith, we love London, and not just because we live here. The thing is that, since we all have homes to go to, it’s rare that the Smith team gets the chance to stay in any of our city’s own luxury hotels (although we are partial to the odd cocktail at [...]
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Posted in Boston, Boutique hotels, Design, Destinations, Eating & drinking, Independent reviews, London, Los Angeles, News, San Diego, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up from one of our panel of independent reviewers on the Mr & Mrs Smith site, we’ll let you know here on the blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies and style insiders on their global roams. We visit every hotel in our [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Cape Town, Independent reviews, South Africa, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
First things first: Happy New Year from Mr & Mrs Smith! Here’s wishing you a travel-happy, free-roaming, sunshine-drenched, world-exploring, high-flying, far-reaching 2009…
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up by Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies [...]
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Posted in Brighton, Independent reviews, Sussex, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 29th, 2008
In this season of good cheer and high spirits, we thought you might need a little festive drinking inspiration, so we put our heads together, sank a few martinis, lost track of what we were doing somewhat and then decided to get someone else to do it for us. So we quizzed Soho bar supremo [...]
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Posted in Design, Eating & drinking, Independent reviews, Insider interviews, London, Mexico, Travel tips, Uncategorized, Worth getting out of bed for | 7 Comments »
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Yes, that’s right – it’s new-review time again! Every time we publish an anonymously conducted hotel review by Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our global wanderings. We visit every property in our hand-picked hotel collection in person, just to check [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Destinations, Independent reviews, London | No Comments »
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
And another review (they’re coming thick and fast at the moment): this time, our Smith spies have been in La Bella Italia, in that most stylish of fashion capitals, Milan. They took refuge in the spankingly chic new urban resort in the up-and-coming Boviso district known as The Chedi Milan, and here’s a little excerpt [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Independent reviews, Milan, Shopping, Uncategorized, spa hotels | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
While it’s a bit miserable and dark (well, it’s winter, innit), we thought we’d brighten your day with tales from a sunnier isle – Sicily.
As you know, every time we publish a new hotel write-up from one of our panel of independent reviewers at Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know, so you can [...]
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Posted in Independent reviews, Italy, Sicily, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Rio: what are you thinking? (as in, what does that city make you think of? Not, ‘Oi, Ferdinand, get it together’). Samba, bikinis, Carnival, baile funk, that giant statue of Christ the Redeemer… there are a lot of things that make Rio de Janeiro one of the most exciting cities in the world, and for [...]
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
As romantic destinations go, there aren’t many more beautiful than Indian Ocean islands – they regularly crop up in top-10 polls for ‘most romantic’, ‘best honeymoon‘ and ‘exotic escapes’. One of Mr & Mrs Smith’s intrepid independent reviewer couples has just returned from a trip to the Oberoi in Mauritius, the honeymoon-fabulous spa retreat in [...]
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Posted in Independent reviews, Mauritius, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
The most recent hotel to have been reviewed for our online collection, Hotel Fazenda da Lagoa is a beachy dream come true, set on the lush coast of Bahia in Brazil.
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up from one of our panel of independent reviewers at Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know [...]
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Posted in Brazil, Independent reviews, Uncategorized | No Comments »