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 […]
Imagine you have a dream: to create the best home. You pick the best location with the best views; you use the best materials, designed by the best architect and built by the best builders. By every metric, you have achieved your goal. Problem is, you’ve only gone and put […]
If you met your first crush now, would you still feel the same? You’d probably appreciate that they no longer stick their fingers in electrical sockets and don’t try and eat crayons, but would that tingly feeling still remain? I still remember my amazement at visiting Serengeti House in 2018 […]
Rumour has it that when god saw Ol Jogi, he stood up, slow clapped and said, “that’s crazier than George Santos’ CV”. He then had to counter it with something equally as mental, so created Liz Truss. No, I’m still not over it. This is going to be a hard […]
It’s rare you can genuinely say you were the first at something. History is dominated by the stories of the select few who went further than anyone before might have even dreamed. And just like Neil Armstrong being the first man on the moon, we were the season’s first customers […]
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 […]
As we departed Coworth Park, I was reminded of the frantic beginning of The Haunting of Hill House, where the family is scrambling to escape, with no time to do anything but flee from the present horror. Such was the rush of our departure, they probably thought we were stealing the entire […]
No, this is not that Four Seasons, the one between a dildo store and a crematorium. This is the lower-profile version. You’ll notice a lack of pictures in this review. That’s because I asked room service to come to clean my suite so I could photograph it, but they never showed up. […]
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 […]
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 […]
