Airelles have become one of my favourite luxury hotel groups. Their strong service ethos, an extremely family-friendly focus blended with luxury and an emphasis on sense-of-place. But what if the place isn’t that great? Then what do you do? Airelles Courchevel decided to go in all with a Swiss alpine […]
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Review: Château de la Messardière, France
I really hate the French. They have better food than us Brits, better weather, a vastly superior national football team (even accounting for football coming home, a few days ago). They don’t elect morons as Presidents, their healthcare system works, they’re part of the EU and boy do they know […]
Review: Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle
Le Grand Contrôle, Versailles Room type: Loménie De Brienne Suite Duration: 25 > 27th June, 2021 Let me get a disclaimer out of the way: this is the first hotel I have ever been invited to. I don’t mean I’m a vampire and I can’t go in otherwise, I mean […]
Review: Bastide de Gordes, Provence, France
La Bastide de Gordes Room type: Duc de Soubise Suite Duration: 11th > 13th May, 2019 I know that we are all supposed to be angry all the time; it solves or causes global warming or something like that, yet Bastide de Gordes makes that so tough. Just my luck I […]