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You know what you like to buy and you’re no sucker for marketing… Do you shun the red sale stickers on discounted produce at the supermarket? Do you laugh in the face of Bogof offers in Boots, resisting the urge to hoard toothpaste for the sake of a pound or so? Well, this is one [...]
It all began with a fabulous Portuguese farmhouse back in July. We’ve since raved about an A-list friendly LA villa, a cosy Norfolk cottage and a traditional Thames-side inn. But we just can’t keep our hotel-loving minds still and now we’re excited about — drum roll, please — a boutique guesthouse in the Cotswolds’ capital, [...]
There’s animal magic in the air at Mr & Mrs Smith this week, so prick your ears and wag your tails for our brand new selection of pet-friendly hotels. In the past, we’ve picked out dream wedding venues, family getaways, budget boutiques and safari stays – and now we’ve rounded up 133 luxury retreats, [...]
We’re only six days in and it’s already been an exciting month indeed. Not only did we manage to amuse/confuse/annoy hundreds of people with our boutique bendy bus April Fool ruse, but we’ve also just introduced some of the most exciting hotels and self-catering stays in the world to our hand-picked selection.
Our Smith & Friends [...]
It might seem a little tenuous linking a recipe to a stylish self-catering stay in the Cotswolds. But not only is Nigel Stengard-Green one half of the husband-and-wife team behind the latest addition to our Smith & Friends collection, the Old Surgery, the owner of this chic Tetbury retreat has also written a series of [...]
At a time when we’re all looking under our sofas for pound coins, what could be more welcome to us penny-pinchers than a hotel that’s affordable as well as stylish and luxurious? Well, a cheap chic hotel that’s just a short drive away, of course. Following on from Monday’s round-up of Europe’s best bargains, here’s [...]
It’s that time of your when we start to regret all that festive over-indulgence and the thought of wearing swimwear by summer inspires pearls of sweat to appear on our foreheads faster than you can say ‘Book me that spa break!’
So here are a few of our favourite spa retreats in Blighty to whet your [...]
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up by Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies and style insiders on their global roams. We visit every property in our hand-picked hotel collection in person, and we anonymously [...]
Five or so years ago, cider drinkers were generally treated with the kind of uneasy suspicion normally afforded to plague carriers, teenage hoodies and over-friendly cousins. Thanks to the marketing efforts of Magners, Bulmers and their ilk, however, cider is acceptable again, even bordering on a discerning option for bar-hopping urbanites. Strongbow on tap? Sooo [...]
