Yet another luxury travel blog
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 […]
There are many things I define myself by. Son, brother, husband-to-be, worlds most handsome man with a blog called The Good, The Bad and the Luxurious. I also happen to have stayed in almost every luxury hotel in London. Two things I get asked the most: Psycho Bob repeatedly asking where’s […]
The Baglioni Hotel, London Room type: De Vere Suite Duration: 12th > 13th January, 2018 Booked with: Dorsia Travel As part of my escapades into staying in all 22 AMEX FHR properties in London, I am now down to scraping the barrel. And it has shown, with numero 3 left on my […]
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. […]
Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park Room type: Mandarin Room Duration: 29th > 30th October, 2017 Booked with: Dorsia Travel I’m 30. I should have learnt by now to listen not only to others, but also myself. Maybe next year is my lucky year of self-improvement. For those after the quick summary, […]
Four Seasons Ten Trinity, London Room type: Trinity Heritage Suite Duration: 11th > 13th August, 2017 Booked with: Dorsia Travel As part of my once-in-a-life-time, around-the-world tour of forgiveness, I wanted to give Four Seasons Ten Trinity another go after their somewhat interesting approach to opening night. Long story short, they […]
The Lanesborough, London Room type: Junior Suite Duration: 28th > 29th July, 2017 Booked with: Direct with hotel Being a glutton for punishment, I decided to return to The Lanesborough, even after my rather disastarous stay back in April. To save you the hassle of reading it all, here’s where it ended 3 […]
The Lanesborough, London Room type: Grovesnor Suite. Kinda. Duration: 15th > 17th March, 2017 Booked with: Ourisman Travel 2017 is the year of the rooster. I have absolutely no idea what that means, but I’m using it as my excuse for staying in all 21 AMEX Fine Hotels and Resorts that […]
Whilst I procrastinate and fail to write any reviews to the point that even watching repeats of Teletubbies seems preferable, I shall instead update with some photos of the rather excellent brand new spa at The Lanesborough. After their refurbishment and grand reopening last year, the biggest shock to me was […]
