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The polls are closed, the votes are in (and have been checked by an independent adjudicator), and this week’s elected hotel of choice is Vienna’s parliamentary neighbour, The Levante Parliament…
Style: Streamlined chrome cool
Setting: Oh, Vienna
Why this week? Austria’s opulence seduces with every passing season but this time of year is especially spectacular, because Christmas and [...]
Today, Mr & Mrs Smith have nipped to the Netherlands to bring you our latest hotel of the week – a one-time party pad beside one of Amsterdam’s major canals. The current owners bought the building lock, stock and barrel from the old inhabitants, and have left the mightily be-tomed library, picture-lined walls and assorted [...]
Simmer down, people – this is, after all, about the freebies you get with consecutive sleeps (nothing to do with chain-laying hotties, nor plural hay bales). But we’re excited. Three nights for the price of two: that’s what we’ve been doling out to Daily Telegraph readers, weaving smartly Smith-like passwords into three issues of the [...]
The skies are grey, there’s a discernible chill in the air, and our trek to work this week has been peppered with sightings of commuters snarling at each other. A key-cutter at Victoria station was heard to bark at his customer, ‘Listen love, I’m just not a morning person’, to be met with her wail, [...]
Attention all Stateside Smith bloggees (that’s you that is) – have we got one superb and stylish prize for you. Anyone in the US can enter our Miami For Two competition, in association with Original Penguin, and really should. This is your chance to win two nights in Florida, for two people, and two stylish [...]
You know what you like to buy and you’re no sucker for marketing… Do you shun the red sale stickers on discounted produce at the supermarket? Do you laugh in the face of Bogof offers in Boots, resisting the urge to hoard toothpaste for the sake of a pound or so? Well, this is one [...]
