Yet another luxury travel blog
When a hotel makes an appearance in the Financial Times, it’s normally because an owner has their paintings confisciated for tax evasion, some guy with nukes wants to meet another guy with nukes in Singapore, or one’s going on the cheap for a few hundred million dollars and How to […]
Let’s start with the good news: my stay was significantly cheaper than expected. Now for the bad: because they comped half the stay. Maybourne Riviera is the latest opening from the previously London-centric Maybourne Group. Their portfolio reads like a Best of London list: The Berkeley, Claridge’s and The Connaught. With […]
If you ever need to define first world problems, it’s laying in bed on a Saturday morning in The Mews, The Connaught’s townhouse-in-a-hotel suite, debating with your wife whether this £15,000/n room is better than The Apartment, The Connaught’s even more expensive, penthouse. This stuff can end marriages. Subjectivity Every […]
Finished. The finished article; nice guys finish last; I’ve finished, he’s finished, they’re Finnish. What a word. My background is in software development (sadly, staring at my screen all day and hoping words fall out of me and onto this blog is not how I pay the hotels), where nothing […]
The Connaught, London Room type: Prince’s Lodge Duration: 24th > 27th December, 2017 Booked with: Dorsia Travel Rather than boasting about my Christmas and how I avoid all family arguments by avoiding my family, I thought it would be interesting to see what a luxury hotel does over the festive period. […]
London, England Room type: Terrace Suite Duration: 26th March Booked with: Directly with hotel If I die poor then I will have no one to blame but myself. There will be no need for a committee to work out where it all went wrong. Sting’s accountant will not need to be interviewed. […]
