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The Smiths broadcast in Bulgaria 2008-09-11 04:02:39 A lovely chap called Peter Fritz from Bulgaria
n website MilliardCity.com got in touch with me to do a Q&A session about luxury and hotels having watched our TV programme currently broadcasting in Eastern Europe. The intro (very roughly translated) says along the lines of ‘When you want to travel, and you want to get some [...]
Top 10 European spa stays on Forbes.com 2008-09-10 04:34:43 One day it’s the New Statesmen asking us about bibles, the next it’s State-side wealth bible Forbes
asking us about spas. Fortunately for them, Smith’s own Juliet Kinsman is thoroughly genned up on the spa scene and was happy to share some of her recommendations.
You can read the full article here, but if you can’t [...] Read more:European
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Alternative wedding cakes – the pleasing ease of cheese 2008-09-08 08:41:36 Forget coffee*, we BlogSmiths have a new obsession: cheese. As Lucy – who’s currently sunning herself in the South of France in a rather special Smith hotel – mentioned last week during our wedding
/honeymoon bonanza, I’m currently in the process of coordinating my own forthcoming nuptials (which, for those of you who haven’t yet had [...] Read more:Alternative
Smith Trips: Peggy probes Paris 2008-09-06 03:00:54 Our indomitable head of hotel relations, Peggy
, just landed back in Smith
HQ from a mission to find the crème de la crème of hotels in Paris
. Anthony harassed her for the luxury lowdown…
Anthony So Peggy, you’ve been noseying around Paris for Mr & Mrs Smith – where did you go and what did you [...]
Little White Book: Brides editor Deborah Joseph’s wedding and honeymoon tips 2008-09-05 03:00:22 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 [...]
Harper’s Bazaar travel website now features Smith hotel reviews… 2008-09-03 07:58:21 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 & [...] Read more:Smith
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New hotels in North America and the UK 2008-09-02 12:00:58 Another month, another mouth-watering selection of boutique hotels…
After last month’s tropical island extravaganza, our hotel-hunters have been dividing their time trans-atlantically, pinpointing hot new hotels in some fabulous NorthAmerica
n destinations, as well as a fresh flurry of stylish stays in the UK.
As promised last week, Juliet’s travels in Toronto have borne some sn Read more:North America
Smith’s all-new online wedding and honeymoon hub 2008-09-01 06:37:35 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 [...] Read more:online
, Smith
Top 10: Honeymoon Destinations 2008-09-01 06:29:26 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 driv Read more:Honeymoon
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Smith trips: Juliet takes on Toronto 2008-08-29 10:18:10 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 [...] Read more:Smith
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Great hotel bathrooms #2 2008-09-30 13:01:27 I’d just like to wade in and add my tuppence-worth to Anthony’s great post on the Top 10 best hotel bathrooms. It’s probably a topic that merits a bigger hit-list, and one that’s fairly subjective as it depends very much whether you’re a soak-in-the-tub or a power-shower type of person (I’m both, according to whim [...] Read more:Great
Smith Ski: What’s hot on the slopes 2008-09-29 11:53:06 The other day Pip McCormac at The Sunday Times asked me my thoughts on ski chic for this article:
We put our heads together here at Smith
HQ and here are our thoughts:
Of course style is essential and practicality is paramount, but comfort is a priority if you’re as crash prone as me. Hi-tech gear means [...]
Top 10: Boutique Hotel Designers 2008-09-26 13:59:55 Most people know good boutique hotel design and when they see it - but not everyone can identify the people behind the polish – the ones who pick the flooring, paper the walls and hang the blinds. LUCY FENNINGS brings you a Who’s Who of hotel design with a top-ten list of the most influential [...] Read more:Boutique
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, Designers
Mr & Mrs Smith in Cookie Mag 2008-09-25 12:03:29 Tamara’s done one or two pieces for the Going Places blog, over at stylish Stateside parenting mag, Cookie
(this month she’s covered child-friendly London cafés), but we’re delighted to see that the the nice folk on the print magazine have chosen to do a little feature on us too. You can’t buy a copy here [...] Read more:Smith
Inside Dubai – the best boutiques, bars and restaurants 2008-09-24 11:58:41 Lara Dunston is the brains behind the Cool Travel Guide blog and has written or contributed to 40 travel guidebooks (for DK, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Footprint, Insight, AA Guides and Thomas Cook) and writes for magazines and newspapers all over the world, including National Geographic Traveler, Wanderlust, Get Lost, Lifestyle+Travel, Paperplane, The Independent and [...] Read more:Dubai
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Sleep Awards 2008: Nominations 2008-09-23 04:25:26 This year I’m a judge in the Sleep
European Hotel Design Awards
. The winners will be announced at the Sleep Awards 2008 ceremony is on 6 November at Sofitel, terminal 5, Heathrow.
The awards recognise the work of architects, designers, and developers across 18 different categories. They are judged by a panel of leading hotel [...]
Romaneira’s artful lodger: boutique hotel beauty in Portugal’s winelands 2008-09-22 05:30:11 When it comes to reporting on cutting-edge arts, culture and design, New-York based Coolhunting is on the vanguard. And few hotels are more worthy of being celebrated on this finger-on-the-pulse website than Thierry Teyssier’s Romaneira. At Smith we always appreciate great-looking hotels, and there’s nothing we love more than sharing our experiences at fabulous hideaways, [...] Read more:Portugal
A quick Q&A with Graham & Green 2008-09-20 05:00:42 JAMIE GRAHAM Creative Director, Graham
& Green
If there’s one homewares shop that lets customers get a little boutique-hotel chic to go, it’s Graham & Green in Notting Hill. And now they have an outpost in Reading too. I grabbed a minute with one of its owners to ask him how he gets his travel kicks.
What [...]
Top 10: the best hotel bathrooms 2008-09-19 08:46:00 Wow-inducing bathrooms have become as important as seductive boudoirs at the hotels Mr & Mrs Smith visit, and they’re a great opportunity to showcase imaginative design. Double sinks, or even double baths create a glamorous boutique-hotel feel, glass-enclosed wet-room-style showers and baths with a view add drama. Beautiful materials and different textures, from stone tiling [...]
We ask the questions: Q&A with Yoo chairman John Hitchcox 2008-09-17 10:58:24 After Tamara’s lunch with property guru, Starck-partner and Caprice-dater John Hitchcox a few weeks back, the busiest man in property development agreed to have a chat with us about what his company, Yoo, is up to, what it’s like working with Philippe, and where he hangs out in New York – when he’s not building [...] Read more:questions
Kelly Wearstler – interior design diva: we ask the questions 2008-10-17 03:35:52 Kelly Wearstler is the interior design
er behind a considerable number of Mr & Mrs Smith’s favourite luxury boutique hotels across the pond (including the Viceroy Santa Monica and Viceroy Palm Springs hotels in California, and Tides Riviera Maya in Mexico, to name just a few). As a result, she sailed effortlessly into second slot in [...] Read more:questions
A pressing matter: cider-making in Herefordshire 2008-10-15 07:56:02 Five or so years ago, cider drinkers were generally treated with the kind of uneasy suspicion normally afforded to plague carriers, teenage hoodies and over-friendly cousins. Thanks to the marketing efforts of Magners, Bulmers and their ilk, however, cider is acceptable again, even bordering on a discerning option for bar-hopping urbanites. Strongbow on tap? Sooo [...] Read more:matter
, making
Q&A with ski chalet-owner Liz Berman 2008-10-14 11:14:36 We caught up with Liz Berman
, owner of two of our favourite ski chalets – Chalet Kernow and Chalet Ti in Verbier – and asked her to divulge her thoughts on what gives great travel…
Favourite places to stay on holiday?
When I stay in hotels I like places that have beautiful spacious rooms with great views [...]
Anouska Hempel: the interview 2008-10-13 03:00:08 To follow up our recent feature on the Top 10: Boutique Hotel Designers, we thought it would be great to talk to the top triumvirate of designers about their inspirations and aesthetics. Kicking off our interview
series is design doyenne Anouska Hempel, who came in at Number 1 for the longevity of her legendary London [...]
Hang out with us: retro hotel ‘do not disturb’ signs are things of beauty 2008-10-11 03:34:18 Just came across this wondrous collection of hotel door hangers posted by graphic designer Michael Lebowitz on his Big Spaceship blog and simply had to share.
Not only do they form a truly beautiful retro
graphic-design time capsule, they gave me a massive hit of nostalgia for ‘the old days’ of hotel travel (note, I didn’t [...] Read more:disturb
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Best steak in London? Smith samples Hawksmoor 2008-10-10 07:01:32 Vegetarians, look away now…
Since meat is rapidly becoming as valuable as gold bullion, and the UN has upsettingly hinted we all eat a little less of it, we at Smith
HQ reckon that it’s more important than ever to make sure that the slices of ex-cow that pass our lips are of the utmost quality. [...]
Smith seeks stylish self-catering cottages 2008-10-09 11:10:47 Stayed somewhere amazing? Tell us about it!
When it comes to researching hip holiday homes, you realise just what a valuable service Smith
provides with Smith & Friends (our cherry-picked collection of self-catering properties and vacation rentals), when you have to scour the internet for private properties with that boutique-hotel wow factor.
It’s tremendously hard seeking out [...]
Europe à la carte 2008-10-09 05:45:53 Just a quickie:
We’re happy to report we’ve got a wee mention on the excellent Europe
á la Carte blog, an online travel mag that’s been highlighting the best and worst of European travel since the internet was in its infancy. Lucy’s rundown of Britain’s best coastal resorts back in August has been flagged up in [...] Read more:carte
We ask the questions: a Q&A with the Barnsley House boys 2008-10-08 11:30:04 In the first of what (we hope) will be a series of insider interviews with hoteliers, we caught up with Tim Haigh and Rupert Pendered – the boys behind Barnsley House
– to find out what makes them tick and reveal some behind-the-scenes goings-on (warning: may contain bullwhips and sailors).
Barnsley House is one of [...] Read more:questions
Brazilian boutique beach chic 2008-10-07 08:23:20 Just yesterday, we launched our October collection, and (as promised last month) beefed up our Brazilian
boutique-hotel selection in the process. Not content with just three luxury city hotels in Rio, which we had previously, we dispatched the intrepid Laura and Katy to the beach-lined state of Bahia to uncover the finest in coastal comfort, [...]
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