Get the low-down from the original style-seekers' latest good-time hunting expeditions, find destination inspiration and insider tips from around the world. Welcome to the official Smith blog: we hope you enjoy your stay
To celebrate the launch of the Mr & Mrs Smith wedding pages, we’ve persuaded Brides magazine editor Deborah Joseph to divulge her Little White Book of wedding secrets – and trust us, what she doesn’t know about weddings and honeymoons probably ain’t worth knowing: Brides is the UK’s biggest-selling bridal magazine.
Here she reveals her [...]
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 & [...]
After another weekend of scrambling to pick up suits from the dry-cleaners, frantic headlong dashes down the motorway, whirlwind costume changes in hotel rooms, getting lost en route to tiny village churches and then realising you’re actually an hour early, the summer-wedding season is officially (read: thankfully) over.
Hopefully - if it was you saying ‘I [...]
Let our destination inspiration whet your wanderlust and provide a guide to the most romantic cities, idyllic islands and wilderness escapes. LUCY FENNINGS rounds up a worldwide hot-list of honeymoon havens…
01 Kruger National Park
LUXURY SAFARI STAYS
Countryside South African wilderness
Country life Eye-spy the Big Five
Why to go Safaris epitomise romance, with spine-tingling safari drives, [...]
Juliet’s been boutique-hotel hunting in not-actually-capital-of-Canada Toronto; Anthony caught up with her when she touched back down…
Anthony Good to have you back Juliet – where have you been gallivanting to then?
Juliet Hello. I was in North America… New York in July - whew - now that is hot. And I had a cheeky little few [...]
And now, some shameless plugging…
The chaps at Tuddenham Mill in Suffolk (one of our most popular boutique hotels), are having a bit of a shindig next week and have asked us to spread the word via the medium of blog. And so we shall.
The fun kicks off beside the millpond at 6.30pm next Thursday, 4 [...]
Hotel soundscape designer, Music Concierge founder, and Mr & Mrs Smith’s very own TuneSmith Rob Wood explains why music is a key part of the boutique hotel experience, and wonders why so many get it wrong…
As a hotel music consultant, I can be something of a difficult customer when I check in for a weekend [...]
Since we’re musing on music this week, and the Ibiza closing parties are looming on the event horizon, we thought we’d spend Friday pondering the other – quieter, greener, more grown-up – side of Ibizan-island life. (NB If you’re the ‘I party-hard, I’ll sleep when I’m dead, and I wanna stay up till dawn with [...]
Ah – the Great British seaside, a holiday institution that has seen more revivals and reinventions than Madonna’s on-stage wardrobe. With the Euro gaining strength, the credit crunch biting (anyone else sick of hearing that term already?) and growing interest in train travel and supporting local enterprise, making the most of our very own coast [...]
Well, hotels obviously. But then I’m biased. Thing is what do you do if you need to stay away for a longer period, with the whole family when you’re going to New York? A house swap can be one answer – and the best thing about our recent spell in Brooklyn was that it meant [...]
