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With history-steeped hutongs and shiny urban enclaves, Beijing shakes up an in-your-face cocktail of culture, cuisine and riotous colour. Situated in the stylish Sanlitun district, Hotel G offers a boutique stay with a twist, thanks to a sexy fit-out, delicious fusion food and switched-on 24-hour service.
Style Boutique-bordello luxury
Setting Heart of the high-rises
Why this week? China’s [...]
The original Mr & Mrs Smith (aka Smith co-founders CEO James and CTO Tamara) are fresh off the plane after visit to Asia in search of new Hong Kong boutique hotels. They report back from action with a mini city guide listing five things to love about Honkers…
1 THE UPPER HOUSE
What makes [...]
Australia’s events guru extraordinaire David Grant has been the invisible hand behind eight Olympic Games and some of the sexiest parties from Sydney to New York. With over 25 years experience in drumming up jaw-dropping events for media players and luxury brands such as Hermès and Calvin Klein, David knows a thing or two about [...]
It’s been a while since we visited Hong Kong so we’ve been refreshing our style radar ahead of a recon mission to track down some more Smith-style stays – keep your eyes peeled for some hot-off-the-presses Hong Kong hotel news. Meanwhile, Mr & Mrs Smith thought you’d appreciate a local shopping tip-off from vintage-dealer extraordinaire, [...]
Luxury Travel Bible’s formidable founder and Editor in Chief Hilary Doling is a woman after our own hearts. Well-travelled, well-read and well-versed in the high-threadcount trappings of luxury travel, she kindly pressed pause on her champagne-tasting, helicopter-flying, wildlife-spotting, Charleston-soundtracked life (sheesh, somebody get me her job!) to give Mr & Mrs Smith a whirlwind tour [...]
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet?
Join the discussion, hotel lovers… See The New York Times’ T Magazine piece:
For the Moment | East vs. West
Pictured: Sukhothai, Bangkok, left; Miller’s Residence, London, below.
Adding their tuppence to the debate, from the Mr & Mrs Smith team, were:
Anthony Leyton, managing editor, [...]
Roving Smith stylista Toni Jones sends Mr & Mrs Smith a postcard from exotic Hong Kong…
As one of the newest recruits to the Smith blogging team, I felt it was my duty to jet off somewhere glamorous pronto. So… a slightly belated Kung Hei Fat Choi (Happy New Year) from Hong Kong! I’m taking a [...]
NEWSFLASH! Smith Travel Blog’s newest insider expert, fashion editor Toni Jones will soon be sending us monthly style updates – more on our globetrotting fashionista later this week – but for now here’s her first fashion newsflash, from China…
If you’re a shopaholic heading to Hong Kong, you need to meet the Secret Stylist.
Say what? This [...]
Credit crunch, schmedit crunch… what we all need during January’s bleaker moments is a bit of holiday escapism. So we quizzed editor of Luxury Travel magazine Alyson Cook about the highs and lows of luxury, and asked her for some luxe-for-less tips to make your budget go further…
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Define ‘luxury’…
Luxury for me is the chance to [...]
Our man in the East, the redoubtable writer, food-blogger, and high-life liver Aun Koh, has been busy roaming the wilds of China in search of more stylish stays for the Smith collection. And, judging by this month’s quintet of new hotels, he’s really come up trumps.
