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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? [...]

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This month, we crossed the, er, two corners of the globe to see what’s going on hotel-wise down in Europe and the Americas…

On the Jersey Shore, we found Bungalow Hotel, a stylish surf house seconds from the sea, and just an hour out of Manhattan. In San Francisco, we crossed the Golden Gate to Sausalito [...]

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Eating our way around Italy

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The 2010 La Dolce Vita show is set to honour all things Italian this week. We’ll be there of course – look out for our Graham and Green-styled stall, G1. In greedy anticipation, we’re playing foodie Top Trumps with six of Italy’s regions, highlighting their signature plate-toppers and suggesting where to sleep off the calories…

UMBRIA
Countryside [...]

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Top 10 child-friendly hotels in Europe

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Anyone who thinks style, luxury and children can’t go hand in tiny hand hasn’t explored our Smith & Kids collection of child-friendly boutique hotels. Following our round-up of the top 10 UK hotels for travellers with tots in tow – and, of course, Kayt Sukel’s run-down of top children’s travel accessories –  we give you [...]

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The Big Event – wedding planners in Italy

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

The beautiful hotels, all those lovely flowers, the chance to acceptably don a frilly fascinator… we do love a good wedding at Smith. So allow us to introduce our favourite new partner, The Big Event (and its director, Rosie) – a stylish service dedicated to wedding and event planning in central Italy where Smith members [...]

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