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January’s the most anticlimactic of months: it starts with a bang of popping champagne corks and exploding fireworks, then immediately peters out, leaving you with nothing but a hangover and soggy streamers on your light fittings. But if you’ve found yourself slumped in the New Year doldrums, Smith has the solution: a springtime escape to [...]
With our gong from the Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Awards 2011 for Best Website still shining proudly on the mantelpiece, here’s another hand-picked hotel star that helps make our collection great: Schoone Oordt in South Africa’s spectacular Garden Route & Winelands…
Style Tranquil Victorian homestead
Setting Foothills of the Langeberg Mountains
Why this week? This one-time B&B can [...]
Wills and Kate are conquering Canada and the States – if we were noble newlyweds we’d be South Africa-bound, honeymooning in colourful Cape Town, animal-watching on safari and sampling the fruits of the winelands. In this lust for sunshine, big game and glamour, our hotel of the week spotlight falls upon Rodwell House, a poised [...]
The onset of autumn has left us craving an exotic adventure – we’re dreaming of untamed forests, wild animals’ roars and sun, glorious sun. Our greed is such that we can’t choose just one, so in a Hotel of the Week exclusive, we’ve picked two: Singita Lebombo and Singita Sweni. Located in the sky-high foliage [...]
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 [...]
Creamy sand beaches and a lively, cosmopolitan personality – Cape Town has enough to attract any beach chair connoisseur or bon viveur. But it’s especially beloved by international celebrities who flock to South Africa for sun-kissed R ’n’ R. Camille de Mondesir enjoyed a gossip with convivial Capetonian, Troy Goatley, who kindly (if a little [...]
If you’re kicking yourself for not organising a bank holiday hideaway, seek solace in planning a future escape (three days of picnics and park life are looking unlikely – as usual – with storm clouds on the horizon). We’d like to point you in the direction of the delightful Derwent House, in colourful Cape Town. [...]
With the clink of midnight champagne still ringing in our ears (not New Year’s Eve – we just like champagne), the Smith Travel Blog comes skipping into 2010 with a fistful of resolutions, most of which involve getting more stamps in our passport, more hotels in our collection, and more gin in our martini. We’ll [...]
Having scaled the dizzy mountain heights last week, this time we’ve hunted down the ultimate adventure for Smith amateur explorers. Top of the food chain is Lion Sands in Kruger National Park.
Style Boutique bushveld
Setting Extraordinary plain
Why this week? Christmas is upon us, and while tradition may have encouraged you to expect bell-jingling reindeer and [...]
Simmer down, people – this is, after all, about the freebies you get with consecutive sleeps (nothing to do with chain-laying hotties, nor plural hay bales). But we’re excited. Three nights for the price of two: that’s what we’ve been doling out to Daily Telegraph readers, weaving smartly Smith-like passwords into three issues of the [...]
