Archive for the 'Australia' Category
Since we’ve been in Australia, launching Mr & Mrs Smith’s new venture down under, we’ve been lucky enough to cross paths with some of Sydney and Melbourne’s most influential movers and shakers. Never one to miss an opportunity, I’ve shamelessly used our chats to plug them for information about their home cities, and over the [...]
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Posted in Activities, Arts & culture, Australia, Destinations, Eating & drinking, Features, Insider interviews, Shopping, Travel tips, Worth getting out of bed for | 5 Comments »
It’s been, you might say, a busy week.
Last weekend, Mr & Mrs Smith cut the proverbial ribbon on their latest acquisition. Not a hotel for once, but a gleaming new office in Melbourne. From its marbled halls*, our all-singing, occasionally dancing Australian team will be hunting down the most glamorous, most homely, and most all-out [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Destinations, Events, Japan, London, News, Spain, Uncategorized, United Kingdom | 8 Comments »
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Late last year, we dispatched our antipodean hotel expert, Sam, on a mission to uncover the best boutique hotels in Australia. She not only uncovered some of the most mind-blowingly stylish stays south of the equator, she also proved to be pretty handy with a camera.
Back at Smith HQ, we were braced for politely nodding [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Destinations, Smith Trips, Uncategorized, Worth getting out of bed for | 16 Comments »
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
To complete our budget boutique hotel blog trilogy (we’ve already covered cheap luxury stays in the UK, and budget-beating boltholes in Europe, in case you missed them), we’ve scoured the Smith collection for a selection of long-haul hotels that still leave you with cash to splash. Here’s our run-down of the world’s most romantic resorts [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Canada, Cape Town, Destinations, Features, Langkawi, Malaysia, South Africa, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Mr & Mrs Smith’s new correspondent down under, Simon Westcott, has served up his first portion of travel-blogging greatness from Melbourne, Australia, for the Smith Travel Blog - enjoy!
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Iron up those Fred Perry tennis whites, restring the old Slazenger and dust off the McEnroe headband – the Australian Open is now in full swing [...]
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Posted in Activities, Australia, Boutique hotels, Destinations, Eating & drinking, Events, Travel tips, Uncategorized, Worth getting out of bed for | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
In a move that looks a lot like it was cleverly timed to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s colossal geopic Australia, but was really just blind luck with bells on, we’re please to announce the addition of a host of Aussie hotels to Mr & Mrs Smith’s collection.
Until last week, we had just [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
To celebrate the launch of the Mr & Mrs Smith wedding pages, we’ve persuaded Brides magazine editor Deborah Joseph to divulge her Little White Book of wedding secrets – and trust us, what she doesn’t know about weddings and honeymoons probably ain’t worth knowing: Brides is the UK’s biggest-selling bridal magazine.
Here she reveals her [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Caribbean, Destinations, Eating & drinking, Events, Guest blogs, Honeymoons & weddings, Insider interviews, London, Maldives, South Africa, Uncategorized, United Kingdom | 2 Comments »