Get the low-down from the original style-seekers' latest good-time hunting expeditions, find destination inspiration and insider tips from around the world. Welcome to the official Smith blog: we hope you enjoy your stay
Ah, Mondays. Don’t you just love to hate ‘em? Definitely the best day of the week to spend a few idle online moments casting your eyes around in search of sunny pictures, faraway inspiration and otherwise entertaining distractions from the daily grind – presumably what brought you to our balmy travel blog shores in the [...]
Though stylish places to stay are our forté, we at Mr & Mrs Smith like to think we know a little bit about food, too. The destination guides that accompany all of the hotels on our website always include tips on where to head for great meals, and all of us at Smith HQ are [...]
Kelly Wearstler is the interior designer behind a considerable number of Mr & Mrs Smith’s favourite luxury boutique hotels across the pond (including the Viceroy Santa Monica and Viceroy Palm Springs hotels in California, and Tides Riviera Maya in Mexico, to name just a few). As a result, she sailed effortlessly into second slot in [...]
Just yesterday, we launched our October collection, and (as promised last month) beefed up our Brazilian boutique-hotel selection in the process. Not content with just three luxury city hotels in Rio, which we had previously, we dispatched the intrepid Laura and Katy to the beach-lined state of Bahia to uncover the finest in coastal comfort, [...]
We at Smith Towers have always liked things that come in twos. Mr Smith and Mrs Smith, for example; two nights for the price of one; double bathtubs… So we’re understandably delighted about the launch of British Airways’ new Metrotwin website, which highlights all that’s good about those two great modern cities London and New [...]
Hey! Not-so-big spender
From labels for less in SoHo to thrifty vintage treasures in Brooklyn, here’s my two cents on savvy shopping in New York City, which I originally wrote for The Observer newspaper:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jun/29/shoppingtrips.newyork
Thanks to the pound-dollar exchange rate, we’ve been flocking to US shores to hit the stores – but since many locals claim shopping [...]
Most people know good boutique hotel design and when they see it - but not everyone can identify the people behind the polish – the ones who pick the flooring, paper the walls and hang the blinds. LUCY FENNINGS brings you a Who’s Who of hotel design with a top-ten list of the most influential [...]
In the past, I’ve definitely deemed a hotel too ‘businessy’ to join our carefully selected collection of seductive stays, and have swiftly dismissed corporate-tinged places simply because its clientele just didn’t look like the kind of fun-loving folk our discerning members would want to while away their precious leisure time with. But when it comes [...]
Another month, another mouth-watering selection of boutique hotels…
After last month’s tropical island extravaganza, our hotel-hunters have been dividing their time trans-atlantically, pinpointing hot new hotels in some fabulous North American destinations, as well as a fresh flurry of stylish stays in the UK.
As promised last week, Juliet’s travels in Toronto have borne some snazzy hotel-shaped [...]
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 havens…
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, [...]
