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
We’ve got a bumper bundle this month, with new hotels spanning the globe from Langkawi to Lisbon. Foodies in particular, you’re in for a treat… We’ve gone gourmet for June with three new foodie fantasies: St John Hotel, a sleek London retreat where nothing’s skipped on the nose-to-tail menu; The Bull Inn, a picturesque Dorset [...]
Great news! We’ve unearthed our first boutique hotels in Sri Lanka, the tea-rich teardrop-shaped island nation languishing off the south-east coast of India. Here’s a little preview of our latest launches… Rustic manor house The Wallawwa in Negombo makes a seductive first-night sojourn, with a soothing spa to ease any post-flight stress (plus it’s pretty handy for [...]
The post-wedding blues are rife at Smith HQ, but there’s still one more reason to celebrate: a whole host of new hotels for May. Don’t go packing those flags away just yet… First up, we forayed into Portugal, combing the coast north to south in search of hotel-shaped hot cakes. Torres Vedras, north of Lisbon, [...]
Despite our recent April Fool’s fun, David Cameron won’t be assisting with subsidised dirty weekends and you can’t really gatecrash Wills and Kate’s honeymoon, but you can still plan your own. For inspiration, look no further that our latest bunch of heavenly hideaways, from Newport in Rhode Island to Italy’s golden, glam Riviera di Levante… [...]
We’re always on the hunt for new hotels to be the apples of our eyes, and this month is no different. Allow us to introduce our crop of corkers for March… We’ve been foraging in Italy once again, hand-picking Ca’ P’a – Casa Privata, a boho bolthole in Praiano on the Amalfi Coast. In Tuscany, [...]
We’ve been on the road again this month, turning stones the land over to report back with a handful of new hotels. Ready to plan that holiday? You soon will be… First up, in Italy, we hit the Amalfi Coast: allow us to introduce Capo la Gala (left), an exclusive nautical retreat on the Bay [...]
The festivities may be over and it’s a long old slog to spring, but here’s something to get excited about: we’ve a host of new boutique beauties debuting at Smith this January… In Morocco, we made our first foray into Fez and found Palais Amani, a citrus-scented restored riad within the ancient city walls. We [...]
We’ve got another cherry-picked handful of hotels for you this month, fresh from recent hideaway hunting in Italy, America and Shakespeare’s birthplace… Lately, we’ve been busying ourselves in Italy, for numerous reasons (truffle picking, pasta slurping, art collecting), but chiefly in the good, honest name of finding the land’s best hotels. Recent additions include Palazzo [...]
To be, or not to be in the Mr & Mrs Smith hotel collection, that is the question. And in the case of the Church Street Townhouse, the brilliant and bijou boutique hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon where Mr & Mrs Smith checked in last night, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. Especially with picturesque views of [...]
We took to our Vespas this month and whizzed around Italy’s sun-baked shores, sparkling lagoons and historic cities to bring you some hot new Italian hotels. Elsewhere, we took detours both near and far-flung to France, Spain, Laos and Australia, all in the name of good hotel hunting… In Venice, we went to check out [...]
