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Last night in London saw the soiree to launch our latest (and, we think, greatest) hotel guide: Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection – Italy. If you were there, thanks so much for coming (hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did!). If you couldn’t make it, here’s what you missed…
B&B Italia threw open [...]
We teamed up with those style-savvy folks at Refinery29 to signpost you to some of our favourite hotels perfect for next week’s Thanksgiving holidays.
Now, make no mistake, we love a little feasting with our nearest and dearest in celebration of harvest time: but what if you’re in the mood to sidestep the multi-generational thing for [...]
It’s amore: Mr & Mrs Smith’s love affair with Italy is official (ok, that by itself isn’t really ‘news’, but read on…). Our latest (and, may we modestly suggest, greatest) hotel guidebook brings you 32 hand-picked hotels in Italy, including traditional Puglian trulli, gorgeous guesthouses, spectacular lakeside villas, wonderful farmhouses and dazzling city-centre palazzos.
As ever, we show [...]
With so many incredible websites and online resources out there today, winning the 2011 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Award for Best Website last night at the travel industry’s most credible awards was incredibly touching and a huge honour, and we want to thank everyone for your support.
Just under a decade ago, Mr & Mrs Smith [...]
We’re not just obsessed with the world’s most stylish hotels. We’re also partial to a designer villa and a chic townhouse. And so, last week, to celebrate the hand-picked houses in our Smith & Friends collection, we threw a little dinner party at Chester Place to celebrate self-catering, Mr & Mrs Smith style…
‘We have such [...]
Valentine’s Day has come and gone, leaving a trail of red envelopes, chocolate wrappers and dishevelled hotel sheets in its wake. If there was ever a time to dish the dirt on your love life, it’s now…
We like to think that we know a thing or two about dirty weekends, but we reckon you do [...]
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. [...]
