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
Organised romance: what an arousal-squashing concept. Discerning lovers should bypass all the pink and sickly tack for some unabashed indulgence – from helicopter rides to ladies in lakes – at our romantic hotels. Mr & Mrs Smith built a business around the art of seduction, so who better to entrust with your night(s) of passion? [...]
Bringing your travels home is not just about snapping up souvenirs, it’s also about reworking ideas from the road – a colour palette, graphic pattern or tactile handmade object – to suit your style. Global nomads can find interiors inspiration anywhere, from a walk around a new town to museums, galleries, [...]
Our suits and party frocks are back in the wardrobe, we’ve wiped the parmesan crumbs from our lips, the whisper-thin ham is MIA, and the prosecco bottles are empty. Yet the memory of our book-launch party for Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection – Italy lives on. (For those who weren’t there, you missed opera [...]
Last night in London saw the soiree to launch our latest (and, we think, greatest) hotel guide: Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection – Italy. If you were there, thanks so much for coming (hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did!). If you couldn’t make it, here’s what you missed…
B&B Italia threw open [...]
It’s amore: Mr & Mrs Smith’s love affair with Italy is official (ok, that by itself isn’t really ‘news’, but read on…). Our latest (and, may we modestly suggest, greatest) hotel guidebook brings you 32 hand-picked hotels in Italy, including traditional Puglian trulli, gorgeous guesthouses, spectacular lakeside villas, wonderful farmhouses and dazzling city-centre palazzos.
As ever, we show [...]
Here at Smith, we don’t know whether to drag out our saris, ski poles or swimwear this month, as we welcome new luxury hotels in the Indian desert, European mountains, sun-drenched Sicily and tropical Australia.
Our collection of boutique hotels in India continues to swell, with the arrival of two beauties in Jodhpur, including fairy-tale desert [...]
Sometimes, all we want is a glass or three of wine, with some sunshine on the side. Oh, and a spot of jazz. In such moods, we thank our lucky stars for hotels like Locanda Palazzone, in Umbria…
Style Volcanic-stone vineyard barn
Setting Overlooking Orvieto
Why this week? Firstly, because the hotel is giving Smith members the chance [...]
Rufus Hound: funny man, stand-up guy and sporter of a mighty fine moustache. And now (drum roll, please) Smith hotel spy, too.
In the time-honoured tradition of a monthly blog post revealing our secret hotel reviewers (don’t be checking that monthly thing, now), we’d like you to meet another alumnus; this time, from the reviewer panel [...]
Reporting once again from the travel frontline for Smith Travel Blog, Wanderlista, aka Andria Mitsakos: publicity guru and luxury travel blogger. Hot on the heels of her Brazilian trip, here she is gadding about at Smith-selected love-nest I Qs hotel and guiding you to the best cicchetti in Venice…
Venezia. The sheer thought of the mysterious northern Italian [...]
Andrea Migliaccio – the young Ischian chef with stints under Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athenée and superstar Spaniard Xavier Pellicer, among others – heads up the Michelin-starred restaurant L’Olivo at the Capri Palace Hotel & Spa (see our most recent Hotel of the Week), as well as the terrace restaurant, Bistrot Ragù.
Here he brings [...]
