Feversham Arms and Verbena Spa
Set just off the market square in impossibly cute Helmsley, on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, the Feversham Arms, a tastefully weathered inn, built in the local stone, has long been...
View ArticleLuton Hoo, Bedfordshire
There aren’t many hotels whose in-room DVD menu is comprised solely of films shot on site. Luton Hoo, however, which has served as a backdrop for over a dozen classics, including Four Weddings and a...
View ArticleMoscow's top hotels
It's a while since capitalism came to Russia, but the free market has been slow to work its wonders on Moscow's hotels. In the last few years, however, the choice of accommodation has expanded, with...
View ArticleMartinhal Beach Resort and Hotel, Portugal
The charm of the wild stretch of sand on the south-west tip of the Algarve that constitutes Martinhal Beach lies in its simplicity. There's lots of space for lounging around or running about on the...
View ArticleCinnamon Club
Since The Cinnamon Club opened in 2001, a steady procession of politicians, lobbyists, deal-makers and celebrities has made it one of the most fashionable of Westminster’s eateries. The restaurant...
View ArticleHotel Corvinus Budapest
With its grand Austro-Hungarian boulevards, Art Nouveau architecture and fin-de-siècle air, Budapest is one of the great showcases of central European culture. It is beautifully defined by the Danube,...
View ArticleAnanda in the Himalayas
Meandering through the swarming, sweaty streets of Old Delhi, it's hard to believe India is the home of such life-affirming practices as yoga, meditation and ayurveda. As you weave your way between the...
View ArticleHospiz Alm Hotel, St Christoph
The pretty Tyrolean village of St Christoph is just up the valley from St Anton, which enjoys a well-deserved reputation as the Mutter und Vater of all après-ski party towns. St Christoph, though its...
View ArticleHotel Goldener Berg, Oberlech
With more gold medal Olympic skiers than any other alpine village, a bevy of royal and aristocratic guests, and a reputation for the best food and wine in the Austrian alps, it’s surprising that more...
View ArticleThe Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst
Hillaire Belloc described the Spread Eagle in one of his farragoes as "that most revered of all prime inns of this world"– high praise indeed from one so well-acquainted with the subject, having stayed...
View ArticleTravels on Horseback
When Kathryn Davies founded Travels on Horseback in 2007, she wanted it to be a trail-riding experience with a twist. In contrast to the ubiquitous group trail holiday, Kathryn offers intermediate and...
View ArticleThe Metropolitan Hotel
Praising a hotel restaurant is like complimenting a fat person on their footwear; you focus on the positive, and try to ignore what's going on upstairs. No one actually wants to eat in a hotel, apart...
View Article38 Degrees North, Ibiza
I’m the kind of girl who considers a canter up the Tube escalator sufficient daily activity, but the promise of a clear mind and body and a little weight loss in anticipation of my wedding was enough...
View ArticleAbigail James Natural Healing Facial
Abigail James Natural Healing FacialImmaculate, gentle and adept, Abigail James is an intuitive facialist who has acquired a devoted following among celebrities and beauty industry luminaries. Abigail...
View ArticleComptoir Libanais, Paddington
Comptoir Libanais is the Lebanese reply to fast food. Think less Middle-Eastern McDonalds; more Canaanite-Carluccio’s fused with Levantine Leon into a delicatessen-cum-café. The brainchild of Tony...
View ArticleSalon review: RUSH Kensington
Where: Rush London, 26 Kensington Church Street, W8 4EP Tel: 020 3468 1503 Treatment: Full head of highlights, Ladies Cut and Blow-dry. Price: Wash, cut and blow dry from £49 and highlights from £77....
View Articlein:spa
in:spa, Monasterio 16-23 August 2012To put things in perspective, I’m not (I think) fat. But, apart from times when I’ve been ill (once in my late teens in Thailand), I’ve almost never been as thin as...
View ArticleMayr & More
Sometimes I wish I could swap myself. Take myself back to the shop and say, this model doesn't work properly: it won't stop telling dull anecdotes, can't do mental arithmetic and has historically had...
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Treats for troops
One of my best university friends is serving in Afghanistan for six months at the moment. He has been part of the Territorial Army for years and it has been a longheld ambition of his to engage in...
View ArticleHix at The Albemarle
Brown's is a venerable grande dame of the London hotel trade. It's the capital's oldest operating five-star hotel, opened in 1837, the year of Victoria’s ascension, by the enterprising James Brown, who...
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