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Just a quick update on Anthony’s recent post about world domination our hotels being featured in the Harper’s Bazaar travel directory. (You can read the original post here, if you missed it the first time round.)
Now, thanks to some clever
web trickery, you can also read candid reports by our roving team of anonymous Mr & [...]
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 [...]
After another weekend of scrambling to pick up suits from the dry-cleaners, frantic headlong dashes down the motorway, whirlwind costume changes in hotel rooms, getting lost en route to tiny village churches and then realising you’re actually an hour early, the summer-wedding season is officially (read: thankfully) over.
Hopefully - if it was you saying ‘I [...]
And now, some shameless plugging…
The chaps at Tuddenham Mill in Suffolk (one of our most popular boutique hotels), are having a bit of a shindig next week and have asked us to spread the word via the medium of blog. And so we shall.
The fun kicks off beside the millpond at 6.30pm next Thursday, 4 [...]
For exactly 100 years, this year, the world has been unquestioningly accepting one of the oddest trends ever to infiltrate the hotel industry - the Gideons. Yes, the sneaky evangelists have been ‘placing’ their maroon preacher-pamphlets in bedside drawers for a century. We don’t know if the scripture-scattering organisation is planning some sort of party [...]
More news on the inn front: last weekend, James and I had an all-too-rare weekend off - no reviewing, researching or meeting with hoteliers to tell them all about Smith - this one was purely pleasure. We went to Barnsley House (one of the very first boutique hotels to come into our collection). Now, I [...]
Given that the techy development of Mr & Mrs Smith has been continuing apace (this travel blog, the BlackBerry app, the route-planner gizmo), you could be forgiven for thinking we’re in the midst of some grand plan for world domination. We’re not (well, actually we are, but it’s a benevolent one, involving free minibars and [...]
I found this great website to make postcards from your own snapshots…
Go to ppme.co.uk, upload your favourite holiday snap, write your own ‘Wish you were here?’ type message and they print and send your image as a postcard for only 99p.
It beats the usual cheesy purple sunset shots and having to find stamps/postbox, plus [...]
If you happen to reading this on your iPhone, you’ll already know what I’m about to say – namely, that you can now read Mr & Mrs Smith’s ever-lovelier blog on pocket-sized screens around the world in an Apple-friendly format, with no risk of compatibility snag-ups or slow-load nightmares. Whether you have an iPhone or [...]
Boutique hotels were only the beginning; now Mr & Mrs Smith have taken to the roads too. You might have spotted a wee piece in Grazia the other week (the one sporting a delightfully floral Cameron Diaz on the cover) about boutique road trips – the Smith team have road-tested seven great drives all over [...]
