Tradition and friendly perfection are the goals the staff at the UK’s most northerly luxury hotel work hard to achieve. And it is difficult to fault the Links House for anything. Driving through the historic […]
There’s something therapeutic about watching boats slowly chugging along at all times of the day and night as the world around them zooms about at top speed. Welcome to the wonderfully slow world of Guidecca […]
To lavish in the liminal landscape balancing luxury and luminous countryside, the rustic, rural and the refined, ravishing details, it is an epochal exercise that borders on the mystical. Breathtaking escalates to new heights when […]
The uninterrupted vista is of palm trees around pools set in fertile gardens. Beyond, white horses caress the Atlantic shoreline. I’m at The View in Agadir, a five-star hotel where every room has a balcony […]
SCHLOSS Roxburghe is a luxury resort hotel with a spa and an 18-hole golf course in the Scottish Borders. The 300-acre estate is centred around an historic manor house. Such a building is referred to […]
London welcomed a brand new hotel at the beginning of June with the opening of the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair in historic Hanover Square, just a stone’s throw from fashionable New Bond Street and the ever […]
Sophia Loren watched me step into and out of the shower. Grace Kelly waited for me in the bedroom. It was the first time I had spent the night with a tiger-eyed Italian temptress and […]
The famous hotel on Rome’s highest hill but not one of its famous seven, specialises in the art of living well. The 15-acre Rome Cavalieri on top of Monte Mario (once Monte Malo – the […]
The Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, is a five-star hotel close to Marina Bay. Built in 1987, the property reopened in September 2023 following major renovations. I was given a hearty welcome to the hotel by Krishan, […]
A unique destination of Caribbean fun. The eleven square miles of the Dominican Republic’s Casa de Campo is home to two thousand villas where the rich and famous – think Bill Clinton, Beyonce, Justin Bieber […]
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