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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, [...]
If even the thought of herding up your brood for a holiday is enough to give you a headache, we’ve done some homework for you that might help.
Plan, plan, plan…
When booking the hotel, find out what they can provide so you don’t lug anything unnecessarily. Some hotels provide sterilisers and monitors, and even nappies. We [...]
Carina Scott brings both a combination of 20 years’ experience in fashion and a progressive parenting attitude to Nonchalant Mom, her child-friendly blog and online kids’ clothing boutique. We asked her about what inspired her to set up such a unique business, what gets her excited in the world of kids’ fashion, and the terrors [...]
Tamara’s been cheating on the Smith Travel Blog again – she’s just done another post for our favourite US parenting mag, Cookie’s Going Places blog. We don’t mind her philandering with other blogs, however – especially when she’s posting about what’s probably the UK’s most child-friendly hotel, Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire.
Tamara visited en famille not [...]
Following on from her first post for the Smith Travel Blog on what to do in Rome with your kids, we’ve asked the lovely Debbie Dubrow of DeliciousBaby.com back to impart her motherly pearls of wisdom on family-friendly breaks in Barcelona. We know you’re all romantic-weekend fans at heart, but there’s no reason you can’t [...]
It might seem a little tenuous linking a recipe to a stylish self-catering stay in the Cotswolds. But not only is Nigel Stengard-Green one half of the husband-and-wife team behind the latest addition to our Smith & Friends collection, the Old Surgery, the owner of this chic Tetbury retreat has also written a series of [...]
This week, we bring you tidings from our newest co-blogger, Marrakech-based American abroad, Maryam Montague (right). Maryam is the self-confessed design junkie and boutique hotel addict behind the gorgeous to look at, lovely to read My Marrakesh blog. Here’s her first Smith postcard, with a great insider tip on a child-friendly activity in the usually [...]
Ok, we know you Mr & Mrs Smiths out there love a nice romantic weekend away, but we also know that all those romantic weekends away can result in a couple of mini-mes and put you in the family way, which is why we steer you towards hotels that are stylish and child-friendly with our [...]
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 and style insiders on their global roams. We visit every property in our hand-picked hotel collection in person, and we anonymously [...]
Tamara’s done one or two pieces for the Going Places blog, over at stylish Stateside parenting mag, Cookie (this month she’s covered child-friendly London cafés), but we’re delighted to see that the the nice folk on the print magazine have chosen to do a little feature on us too. You can’t buy a copy here [...]
