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What to wear where (be it Miami or Birmingham)

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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, [...]

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Much like Mr & Mrs Smith, Suzanne’s Files is a trusted online source of inspiring travel tips and information, compiled by travel-savvy style-spotter Suzanne Aaronson from her own experiences and those of her global contacts. Since we’re both obsessed with style, service and quality, and love uncovering the world’s best boutique hotels, luxury beach resorts [...]

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Video killed the holiday postcard

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Postcards, schmostcards. We say, forget that faff for stamps and address books: capture all your happiest holiday moments on a Flip Video pocket camcorder, and bore everyone back home in full talking technicolour. The clever in-built software lets you create great-looking home movies quick-smart; then you can swiftly upload these online or show friends through [...]

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Top 5: Budget boutique hotels around the world

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Launching… The Australia Collection

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

In a move that looks a lot like it was cleverly timed to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s colossal geopic Australia, but was really just blind luck with bells on, we’re please to announce the addition of a host of Aussie hotels to Mr & Mrs Smith’s collection. Until last week, we had [...]

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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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Top 10: Honeymoon Destinations

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…

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