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Following on from last Friday’s interview with Hilary Doling, editor-in-chief of Luxury Travel & Style Magazine, here’s the second of our insiders’ guides to what’s hot in Australia (and we’re not just talking about thermometer-bothering regions such as Kimberley and Top End). Just to recap, I was in Sydney (left) and Melbourne last week to [...]
For those of you who are still in any doubt as to the veracity of our little news story about Boris Johnson and Mr & Mrs Smith’s bendy-bus boutique hotel yesterday, just a reminder: we were joking.
It was, of course, April Fools Day. Despite fears that you’d see straight through any japery after we set [...]
Have we got news for you: Boris Johnson is often accused of being a bit of a twit, but Londoners will be laughing on the other side of their faces when they hear he’s poised to turn a pretty profit out of the costly London bendy-bus
decommissioning debacle.
Boris had the brilliant idea of inviting a [...]
Psst! At risk of bringing yet more calls to the already-beleaguered Smith travel team, here’s a quick newsflash…
Throughout this week, Mr & Mrs Smith has been running a promotion with The Daily Telegraph, offering two nights for the price of one at more than 70 of our best boutique hotels in the UK and Europe. [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding and allow Mr & Mrs Smith a moment of smug self-congratulation. It’s back-slapping Friday here at Smith HQ – our travel-blogging team are collectively delighted to have our Twitterings recommended on the Telegraph’s top travel Tweeters list.
We’ve been playing around with Twitter for a little while now, letting our [...]
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 [...]
One of the most important criteria when we’re deciding whether a hotel will make it into the Smith collection is, quite simply, its sheer sexiness. Is its restaurant the perfect setting for candlelit dinners à deux? Is that bath tub big enough for two? Does the bed put ideas in your head? For five years, [...]
One day it’s the New Statesmen asking us about bibles, the next it’s State-side wealth bible Forbes asking us about spas. Fortunately for them, Smith’s own Juliet Kinsman is thoroughly genned up on the spa scene and was happy to share some of her recommendations.
You can read the full article here, but if you can’t [...]
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 & [...]
We made the papers in NYC this weekend, with a wee splash in the New York Times travel section yesterday, talking about our US expansion and mentioning our favourite boutique hotel in Grenada – Laluna
You can read the whole article here.
