Yet another luxury travel blog
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 […]
Courchev-ello, as nobody says. This coming weekend we’re heading to France for a spot of snow spotting. When I tell people we’re heading to Courchevel, everyone is so excited to talk about skiing, like it’s the new season of House of the Dragon. Then, as always, I bring the disappointment, […]
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 […]
Maybe I’m getting old and sentimental, or maybe I’m focusing on avoiding any news about the state of the British economy (ignorance is bliss, so the less I read it, the more I can pretend my currency is stronger than an FTX token), but I recently found myself going through […]
How often do you get out of the shower in your own home, put your robe and slippers on and find they don’t fit? Unless the milkman has been over recently, the answer is likely never. So why would you expect the same in a luxury hotel? Why do you […]
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. […]
After you send your kid to private school and put them through university, you’re not that keen to see “blogger” on their business cards. It isn’t normally top of your list of things you’re hoping they’ll be. If I’m being brutal, maybe it’s third place, after doctor and astronaut. I […]
Tradition is a wonderful thing. As someone Irish/English, we can all agree my tradition is to be drunk 200% of the time. The Carlyle is smothered in tradition, but like that time in history where women got to choose between drowned or burnt alive, not all traditions are brilliant. I […]
Expectations are everything. If you swipe right on a picture of Chris Hemsworth and my hideous face shows up for the date, you’re morally and legally allowed to taser me. Them the rules. My stay at Aman New York was very much about expectations. First of all, it’s an Aman. That’s […]
Whilst having a bit of travelling downtime, awaiting the arrival of my second (and last) child, I thought I’d take a look back at the promised hotel openings of the year compared to what we actually ended up with. This has come around because in a few weeks I will […]
