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To keep our inventory of insider city tips fresh and shiny, we regularly ask our style-spotting spies to report back from their trips with the latest travel news and views. Here, magician-slash-comedian-slash-hotel-reviewer Chris Cox shares his learnings from La-La Land and reveals how to live like a big-shot (Edinburgh Festival) star in Los Angeles…
LA, the home [...]
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 [...]
Fresh from his recent undercover Smith mission to review Geejam hotel in Jamaica, New York master of spin Lucien Etori gives us a great big helping of the gorgeous Caribbean island that’s inspired greats from Bob Marley and Ian Fleming to Usain Bolt.
One of the reasons I was effervescently excited about this trip to Jamaica, besides [...]
Rufus Hound: funny man, stand-up guy and sporter of a mighty fine moustache. And now (drum roll, please) Smith hotel spy, too.
In the time-honoured tradition of a monthly blog post revealing our secret hotel reviewers (don’t be checking that monthly thing, now), we’d like you to meet another alumnus; this time, from the reviewer panel [...]
He drums for Aussie alt-rock band The Vines, he microbrews his own beer and he DJs at some of Sydney’s coolest bars. OK, so he claims to be a fairly average surfer, but what’s not to like about Hamish Rosser? When not touring with the band, Smith tastemaker Hamish (right) loves travelling, even penning a [...]
What do a Smash Hits sticker collection, an obsession with cutlery culture and a knack for knowing how to Give Great Food have in common? Smith hotel-reviewing chef Allegra McEvedy’s tasty new book, Bought Borrowed & Stolen, that’s what.*
York & Albany reviewer Allegra – aka the First Lady of fast food, thanks to having co-founded [...]
As you hopefully know by now, our anonymous reviewers stay incognito with their significant others then spill the secrets of their stay. Here, we introduce you to another member of the Mr & Mrs Smith family, designer Martha Freud…
Martha Freud visited an arty hotel in Versilia, Tuscany for us with her actual Mr Smith – director, [...]
As director of the cutting-edge Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Smith tastemaker Elizabeth Ann Macgregor has turned her passion into her profession. Born in Dundee, she discovered the world of art at university and hasn’t looked back since. Prestigious posts in Scotland, and helming Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery followed, before she headed down under – [...]
Australia’s events guru extraordinaire David Grant has been the invisible hand behind eight Olympic Games and some of the sexiest parties from Sydney to New York. With over 25 years experience in drumming up jaw-dropping events for media players and luxury brands such as Hermès and Calvin Klein, David knows a thing or two about [...]
As you know, our super-secret hotel reviewers report back from the boutique hotel frontlines chronicling their jaunts as only they can, penning critical, witty and hilarious accounts for us to share with you, dear reader.
This month, we introduce you to another member of the Mr & Mrs Smith family, the whip-smart and worldly stylista Ashley [...]
