These days travelling abroad can be stressful enough what with having to get to the airport hours before your flight if you have any hope of making it on time. Once there you then need […]
The Kahanda Kanda is a luxury resort set amid a low altitude tea plantation near Galle, in the south-west of Sri Lanka. The resort has 10 chic villas with verandas overlooking the estate. It’s possible […]
Sri Lanka is a place where dreams are the stuff of daily life. All those pristine, white powder beaches, boat outings on the Indian Ocean for spying Free Willy, plus 15km hikes in misty tea-plantation […]
Many hotels often bleat about the luxuries they offer, but sometimes all you really want is genuine hospitality, a comfortable room for the night and a central location. The Hecht in Appenzell offers precisely that […]
With its grand, gabled façade on Appenzell’s main square, Landsgemeindeplatz, the Romantik Hotel Säntis creates quite an impression from the first. Run with unpretentious charm and a genuine belief in warm hospitality by the Heeb […]
Many hotels wax lyrical about having fabulous views, but Hotel Silberhorn is in a class of its own. Sitting on a rise above the village of Lauterbrunnen in the waterfall-laced valley of the same name, […]
It’s sometimes hard to pinpoint what makes one hotel more memorable than another, but personally I find it boils down to exceptional service. Service that makes the hotel-as-home concept come into its own; service that […]
Some things never go out of fashion, such as the sense of occasion arriving at one of Europe’s five-star grand hotels and being winged back to the more graceful era of belle époque. Built by […]
As the tourist crowds thin out and the often-extreme temperatures drop to a cooler, yet still warm climate, the autumn months prove to be a great time to explore Spain. Here are five of the […]
UK air traffic is set to remain sky high as holiday-makers seek October half-term breaks and winter sun, new research into packing habits has revealed that Brits routinely overpack their luggage – wasting a great […]
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