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As we’ve learned from the eating and drinking articles we’ve posted on this blog, everyone has an opinion when it comes to gastronomy. Now it’s time to get yours across – nominations have opened for the Observer Food Monthly Awards, the annual distribution of laurels to all the greats of the gastro world. Categories include [...]
Just a quick post to let you know that last night I took part in a live blogging session representing Mr & Mrs Smith, alongside fellow travel bloggers from Europe à la Carte, nerdseyeview, Travellerspoint and This Just In. I’ve never done anything like this before and was a touch nervous to tell the truth [...]
Our travel team have been working their hand-knitted merino socks off this morning – we’ve been flooded with calls in response to our two-nights-for-the-price-of-one offer, which we’ve been running in association with The Times since Saturday. It seems that everyone has an eye for a bargain at the moment (I, for one have been more [...]
Since we’ve just had a bit of an online spruce-up ourselves (wider pages, streamlined hotel searches and overhauled booking system, since you ask), we’re particularly interested in what other travel sites are up to in terms of their autumn clean-ups. We’re quite impressed by the rather dramatic facelift that’s been performed on Travolution, the travel [...]
Stayed somewhere amazing? Tell us about it!
When it comes to researching hip holiday homes, you realise just what a valuable service Smith provides with Smith & Friends (our cherry-picked collection of self-catering properties and vacation rentals), when you have to scour the internet for private properties with that boutique-hotel wow factor.
It’s tremendously hard seeking out [...]
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We’re happy to report we’ve got a wee mention on the excellent Europe á la Carte blog, an online travel mag that’s been highlighting the best and worst of European travel since the internet was in its infancy. Lucy’s rundown of Britain’s best coastal resorts back in August has been flagged up 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, [...]
Ok, they’re not really a secret, since you could have worked out who we are by looking us up on Mr & Mrs Smith’s home page, but we know how generation Facebook loves a photo, so we’ve given you some. Here. Take a look behind the scenes at Smith HQ and see the computer-monkeys talented [...]
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 [...]
Tamara’s done one or two pieces for the Going Places blog, over at stylish Stateside parenting mag, Cookie (this month she’s covered child-friendly London cafés), but we’re delighted to see that the the nice folk on the print magazine have chosen to do a little feature on us too. You can’t buy a copy here [...]
