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April 2, 2015

Grab your wellies, UK festival season is coming

We've sourced some stylish sanctuaries for you to crash-out in, from pitch-perfect super-tents to manicured manor houses, all within 45 minutes of this year's best al fresco gatherings for dancing, dining and debating…

Smith Hotel Awards 2014: Best Budget Boutique Hotel

October 29, 2014

Rachel Juarez-Carr

Top 10 budget boutique hotels: the Smith Hotel Awards shortlist

You want style, you want service, you want a stay to make your friends green with boutique-bolthole envy… but you don't want to entirely empty…

May 6, 2014

Madevi Dailly

New for May: Smith hotels from Thailand to Turkey (via Panama, Bermuda, Australia and more…)

Summer is tantalisingly round the corner, so this month we’ve travelled round the globe to bring you the brightest, sunniest, beachiest stays on four continents.…

August 6, 2013

Rachel Juarez-Carr

New for August: Smith hotels in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Somerset and more…

We've been all over the place this month, from cities to seas. Our Euro adventures began with a trio of très belles Parisians: minimalist foodie…

April 3, 2013

Rachel Juarez-Carr

New for April: Smith hotels from California and Kennebunkport to Cornwall and the Côte d’Azur…

We're gleefully celebrating Spring's arrival with a globe-spanning host of new hotels this month. We kicked off our world tour in the Windy City, where…

January 11, 2012

Sarah Jappy

New year, new Smith hotels in Somerset, Shropshire and Naples

We couldn't forgive ourselves if we didn't begin 2012 in style. Luckily, this month's exploring unwrapped some super new Smith hotels in Somerset, Shropshire and…

Country house wedding venue Babington House

April 27, 2011

Lucy Fennings

Royal wedding fever? Find your wedding style

Ok, so there isn't Union Jack bunting draped around Smith HQ and we don't have matching 'Wills 4 Kate' mugs, but with the country's most…

April 4, 2011

Caroline Lewis

New for April: nautical Newport finds, stylish Sixties pads and Penang plantations

Despite our recent April Fool's fun, David Cameron won't be assisting with subsidised dirty weekends and you can’t really gatecrash Wills and Kate’s honeymoon, but…

January 11, 2011

Caroline Lewis

New year, new hotels: welcome to 2011

The festivities may be over and it’s a long old slog to spring, but here’s something to get excited about: we’ve a host of new…