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This month’s new boutique hotel launches are brought to you by the letters P and M, and by the number 14. 14 because there are, well, 14 of them, and P and M partly because January’s destinations of choice are Paris and Marrakech, and partly because our new hotels have been cherry-picked by the Smith [...]
Going to stay in Paris or Japan any time soon? Check out these insider restaurant and hotel recommendations from a Michelin-starred chef as Alain Ducasse shares some secrets from his personal travel address book with us…
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My favourite hotel in France (not including the Maisons d’Alain Ducasse, such as Mr & Mrs Smith’s pick Domaine des [...]
Every time we publish a new hotel review on 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 boutique hotel, country guesthouse, chic beach hut and luxury stay in [...]
Ah, Mondays. Don’t you just love to hate ‘em? Definitely the best day of the week to spend a few idle online moments casting your eyes around in search of sunny pictures, faraway inspiration and otherwise entertaining distractions from the daily grind – presumably what brought you to our balmy travel blog shores in the [...]
As you may or may not know, one of the most important things we do at Mr & Mrs Smith is get every property in our hotel collection anonymously reviewed by a real-life couple: it’s the only way to really make sure the hotel lives up to our romantic expectations and is a tip-top together-time [...]
The other day Pip McCormac at The Sunday Times asked me my thoughts on ski chic for this article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/specials/ski0809/article4744798.ec
We put our heads together here at Smith HQ and here are our thoughts:
Of course style is essential and practicality is paramount, but comfort is a priority if you’re as crash prone as me. Hi-tech gear means [...]
One of the most important criteria when we’re deciding whether a hotel will make it into the Smith collection is, quite simply, its sheer sexiness. Is its restaurant the perfect setting for candlelit dinners à deux? Is that bath tub big enough for two? Does the bed put ideas in your head? For five years, [...]
The stylish new online collection of Alpine ski chalets with boutique hotel-style service.
The leading connoisseurs of the world’s finest boutique hotels bring you Smith Ski: a meticulously selected portfolio of the finest ski chalets in Europe.
From the high-altitude snow fields of the Trois Vallées & Val D’isère and the Chamonix valley in the [...]
