Europe
The Garth Hotel, Grantown, Scotland
It’s unusual for me to be in Scotland as a tourist, so the past few days have been an absolute delight. In the Highlands almost every bend in the road reveals another breathtaking vista, and we had the perfect weather for touring – strong winds that produced roiling clouds, localized showers and startling sunshine. We [...]
Hotel Lancaster, Paris – sublime.
Review: This post is part of the same Parisian story that saw my partner and I leaving Hotel Costes rather earlier than expected after a run in with some particulary obnoxious staff. Having either been bumped from our room, or just downright lied to by that hotel, our lifestyle manager, who was distraught that we’d been [...]
Hotel Costes, Paris – Supercilious sons of bitches.
Review: THIS IS NOT CHILD FRIENDLY READING… As I’ve mentioned before on these pages, I have been lucky enough to stay in some fantastic hotels. Unfortunately, the massively hyped Hotel Costes in Paris, does not fall into this category. I’d first stumbled across Hotel Costes back in the summer of 2006 walking home from a [...]
Villa Amistà, Verona – Byblos owner has created a ludicrously good hotel.
Review: I’m going to resist the temptation to post lots of photos of this hotel, and would recommend that you don’t look at the website too deeply (or at all) before you book, leave it as a surprise… To have somewhere like the Villa Amistà sprung on you after a particularly long and harrowing journey, [...]
Ca Maria Adele – perfect, bijou hotel in Venice.
Review: With all this recent brouhaha from debating the banning of day-trippers from Venice, I thought it time to put together some posts on that rather wonderful city. I have to admit that I am a lucky so-and-so to have stayed in such amazing places over the years, and for me, one of the most [...]