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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Planning a boutique hotel break is not just about finding the right place to stay. Even when you’ve pinned down your perfect location, how to hone down our threads to hand-luggage proportions?
Isabella Oliver – best known for its sartorial ways with baby bumps – now stocks a 365 collection of no-pregnancy-required womenswear. Dresses, tops, [...]
To complete our budget boutique hotel blog trilogy (we’ve already covered cheap luxury stays in the UK, and budget-beating boltholes in Europe, in case you missed them), we’ve scoured the Smith collection for a selection of long-haul hotels that still leave you with cash to splash. Here’s our run-down of the world’s most romantic resorts [...]
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up from one of our panel of independent reviewers on the Mr & Mrs Smith site, we’ll let you know here on the blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies and style insiders on their global roams. We visit every hotel in our [...]
