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
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, [...]
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, [...]
Our hotel-love levels have reached new heights this week as we turn our amiable affections to yet another hand-picked hero. Hot on the heels of Istanbul’s finest pasha palace and the Top End of Australia’s wildlife-teeming Bamurru Plains, it’s the turn of Floridan minimalist masterpiece, the Standard Miami…
It’s that time again when we reveal the new hotel debutantes we’re inaugurating into Smith society. We’ve combed the beaches of San Sebastián, searched the coastal charms of Empordà and scoured the heavenly excesses of the Hamptons to bring you the very best of the boutique-hotel world this August…
Come August, you can always be sure of a good party or two in Ibiza — the hair-down, free-spirited fun times at Atzaró next month will be no exception. The family-friendly finca joins in with the rest of the island and presents its soul-nurturing programme of spiritual summer specials…
Balearic-based concierge service, Deliciously Sorted, arranges private chefs, jet and boat charter and VIP entry to Ibiza and now also Mallorca’s best destinations. Who better then, to give Mr & Mrs Smith the inside scoop on the island’s hotspots than Deliciously Sorted’s on-isle red-carpet roller-outers, Tor Cooper-Evans and Claire Gauvain from TLC? (right, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year – and romantic hotels are filling up fast… so we’ve brought you our insider guide to the perfect weekend-away hotels that will wow your wooer, knock their socks off and generally tick all the right boxes - and crucially, they still have some availability (although, obviously, it [...]
Not long before Christmas, me and my soon-to-be-Mrs-Smith found ourselves touching down in the heart of the Swiss Alps, for a weekend reconnaissance mission at Solis Cambrian Hotel & Spa – one of the latest additions to the Smith boutique hotel collection. We visited Adelboden in the Bernese Oberland, a village-sized cluster of gingerbread-house wooden [...]
