Thinking about a walking holiday and some sunshine in 2018? Mark Nicholls joins a walking tour across rugged western Crete for a bit of both. The shoreline of western Crete is as dramatic as it […]
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 […]
Just a 15-minute drive from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport and the hustle and bustle of Denpasar, sits the paradisiacal world of the Mövenpick Resort & Spa Jimbaran. And it really is a whole world […]
When it comes to places to go and things to do, the USA has pretty much everything and it’s no wonder so many Americans still don’t have passports as there’s no need to travel abroad […]
The best things happen when you least expect them. Such was my experience of my stay in the NH Collection Piazza Carlina hotel in Turin. As Turin was not my final destination, but rather a […]
He wants elite dining. World class wining. He knows where he’s going. Skimping is not part of the plan. She wants the layer beneath the luxury – to sip into something sublime, yet quaint. Hear […]
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