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To keep our inventory of insider city tips fresh and shiny, we regularly ask our style-spotting spies to report back from their trips with the latest travel news and views. Here, magician-slash-comedian-slash-hotel-reviewer Chris Cox shares his learnings from La-La Land and reveals how to live like a big-shot (Edinburgh Festival) star in Los Angeles…
LA, the home [...]
Christmas is nearly upon us, and with it thoughts of fun family get-togethers. But by Boxing Day, those 24 hours spent playing charades with the in-laws will no doubt have you dreaming of family getaways instead – so here’s our hotel of the week: Oceana Santa Monica, a ray of Californian sunshine that’s child-friendly, chilled out [...]
This month, we went looking for new Smith hotels in Fiji. Our search uncovered Dolphin Island, a private-island stay just north of Viti Levu. In the Indian Ocean, we plotted a romantic rendezvous at Anantara Kihavah Villas, a desert-island dream of a hotel in the blue-gold Maldives.
Next, we went coastal in south-east Asia, discovering Bunga Raya (above), an eco-chic escape [...]
Nicole Campoy-Leffler is a born-and-bred Angeleno, a one-time student of ballet and opera, a connoisseur of underground arts movements, and a writer for Fine Arts LA – there can be few people more qualified to serve up an insider slice of LA’s cultural scene. The Smith Travel Blog asked Nicole what she thought were the [...]
The clocks spring forward this weekend and the temperature in LA is already hotting up. We want to be rollerblading down a sunny Santa Monica boulevard so bad, but we’re settling instead for honouring Oceana as our favourite hotel this week…
Style All things bright and beautiful
Setting Parkside Ocean Avenue
Why this week? From now until the [...]
Have you ever noticed how actresses about to receive a necklace on screen are always bare-necked before their suitor rocks up with a jewellery gift? If you, too, know that naked feeling when you’re in your hotel room, getting ready for a fabulous night out – get your partner to channel Richard Gere in Pretty [...]
How to follow a fabulous Portuguese farmhouse, a cosy Norfolk cottage and a trad Thamesside inn? Why, with another equally stunning boutique property, of course. This week, our fickle fancies turn to…
I thought this might grab your attention.
And no, this isn’t merely a ruse using the age-old tactic of risqué connotation and celebrity name-dropping just to hook you in, only to find that the story has nothing to do with the headline: the bawdy and beautiful burlesque star Dita Von Teese really is one of our [...]
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 [...]
At Mr & Mrs Smith, we love London, and not just because we live here. The thing is that, since we all have homes to go to, it’s rare that the Smith team gets the chance to stay in any of our city’s own luxury hotels (although we are partial to the odd cocktail at [...]
