Archive for the 'Indian Ocean' Category
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Have you ever noticed how actresses about to receive a necklace on screen are always bare-necked before their suitor rocks up with a jewellery gift? If you, too, know that naked feeling when you’re in your hotel room, getting ready for a fabulous night out – get your partner to channel Richard Gere in Pretty [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Destinations, Features, Indian Ocean, Los Angeles, Mauritius, Miami, New Zealand, Portugal, Shopping, Travel tips, Uncategorized, Worth getting out of bed for, fashion | No Comments »
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
As romantic destinations go, there aren’t many more beautiful than Indian Ocean islands – they regularly crop up in top-10 polls for ‘most romantic’, ‘best honeymoon‘ and ‘exotic escapes’. One of Mr & Mrs Smith’s intrepid independent reviewer couples has just returned from a trip to the Oberoi in Mauritius, the honeymoon-fabulous spa retreat in [...]
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Posted in Independent reviews, Mauritius, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
JAMIE GRAHAM Creative Director, Graham & Green
If there’s one homewares shop that lets customers get a little boutique-hotel chic to go, it’s Graham & Green in Notting Hill. And now they have an outpost in Reading too. I grabbed a minute with one of its owners to ask him how he gets his travel kicks.
What [...]
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Posted in Design, Indian Ocean, Insider interviews, Morocco, Uncategorized | No Comments »
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 »
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Let our destination inspiration whet your wanderlust and provide a guide to the most romantic cities, idyllic islands and wilderness escapes. LUCY FENNINGS rounds up a worldwide hot-list of honeymoon destinations…
01 Kruger National Park
LUXURY SAFARI STAYS
Countryside South African wilderness
Country life Eye-spy the Big Five
Why to go Safaris epitomise romance, with spine-tingling safari drives, [...]
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Posted in Caribbean, Design, Honeymoons & weddings, Indian Ocean, Italy, Morocco, South Africa, Thailand, Top 10s, Uncategorized, United States | 13 Comments »