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Britain’s best beach cafés
You know what big fans we are of our own Great British coastline here, and it’s not like we need much persuading to dig out our buckets and spades and storm the UK’s best beaches at the first hint of a...
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Postcard from Dorset: checking out the Hive Beach Café
You might remember a couple of weeks back we spent a day raving about some of Britain’s Best Beach Cafés. As threatened promised at the time, Mr & Mrs Smith paid a visit to some of them, for – ahem...
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Happy new hotels: January jaunts in Dorset, Manchester and Rome
One too many slips on icy pavements recently has made us all feel a little like hiding away until spring (though maybe not in the fridge, like Anthony’s tortoise). But despite the demise of the festive...
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Boutique buds of May: coastal cool in Cornwall, and a trip down memory lane...
May is a festive month of bank holidays, cherry blossom, people attached to ribbons dancing around a pole and the Eurovision Song Contest. We like May. We’re heralding its arrival by joining in with...
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Hotel (Grosvenor) of the week
It’s a fickle, fickle world, but there are some things you can rely on. Hotel of the week, for example, which swings by every Friday without fail, to kick-start your weekend. Today’s temptation, Hotel...
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The Bull Inn: hotel of the week
Oh, to be clad in chequered knitwear and tweedy plus fours, with a basket of balls beside us, a keen caddie behind us, and a green and pleasant golf course before us. In this lust for all things...
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New for March: Smith hotels in the Bahamas, Peru, Cambodia, Fiji and Dorset
We’ve criss-crossed the globe this month to add to our hand-picked hotel collection. We’re thrilled to welcome the very first Smith hotels in the Bahamas and Peru, as well as some new hot stays in...
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New for August: Smith hotels in Dorset, Dubai, Aspen, Abu Dhabi and beyond…
We begin our global adventuring this month in Thailand, courtesy of two very different Phuket haunts. The first, Foto Hotel (above), is a slick stay high on a west-side hill; the second, Twinpalms...
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Top 10 best new hotels: the Smith Awards 2014 shortlist
The Best Newcomer award is a hotly contested one in the travel industry: these hip new hotels are gunning for stardom from the moment the doors swing open, and this latest crop of cool getaways is no...
View ArticleBest Smith Hotel 2015: the Pig – on the Beach
Congratulations to The Pig – on the Beach, which was crowned Best Smith Hotel 2015 at the Smith Hotel Awards shindig last night. This beautiful boutique stay in Dorset already has a dedicated fan base,...
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