Hotel Marinedda, Sardinia Italy (Patrick Goff)
For many years my practice worked for island hotel groups, the Hugglers (see Club Hotel and Spa) and the Seymours of Jersey (see the…
/ 06.09.2014
For many years my practice worked for island hotel groups, the Hugglers (see Club Hotel and Spa) and the Seymours of Jersey (see the…
/ 06.05.2014
Going green means many things to many people, from adding solar power panels to a roof to a through total reworking of energy use….
/ 06.04.2014
When I stayed at the Shangri-La in Dubai I had no doubts about what I would be looking at. The review was specifically so…
/ 06.03.2014
Now owned since 1998 by Elite Hotels, enough time has passed since the ownership of De Vere to be able to see the image…
/ 05.02.2014
It stands almost as a symbolic icon of the recovery of Germany from past disasters. Top floors burned out, requisition by occupation forces, rebuilt…
/ 06.01.2014
Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, Every morning commuter trains bring civil servants in to work, in a town with tree shaded…
/ 05.11.2013
Budget hotels have flourished in recession. Not only will business people trade down, but the ‘bang per buck’ element has become exaggerated as new…
/ 07.08.2013
The building is an existing 116 bedroom hotel in San Francisco, built in 1913. It had been recently purchased by Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and…
/ 05.07.2013
Last time I rode a luxury train it was the Orient Express UK end, steam pulled from London to Kidderminster, and not the blue…
/ 05.06.2013
In February 2005 I reported that Shangri-La had signed a lease on the space in then planned Shard, and had already started design work…
/ 05.03.2013
A few years ago I was in Washington to Review a couple of hotels. Staying in a Staybridge Suites I was collared by the…
/ 05.01.2013
Babbacombe is just along the road from Torquay – so close in fact that some people class it as Torquay suburbs, but it is…
/ 05.12.2012
Like many Brits, my images of America are part Hollywood, part romance,part television all tempered with the reality of numerous visits over the years….
/ 04.10.2012
Unmissable as you drive in to Exeter, this 60 bedroom hotel occupies a spectacular example of a re-engineered building. The hotel is a conversion…
/ 04.08.2012
Aquae Sulis was the Roman name for this spa. The British of course are more ‘lumpen’ than classical, so called it Bath. It has…
/ 04.07.2012
Seaside towns have a look about them. The ocean close by obviously, but the kind of shops they have – a strange mix of…
/ 04.05.2012
Lancashire can appear a very strange place full of witches and forests as well as seaside towns and industrial centres. In the late 18th…
/ 04.02.2012
The English aristocracy didn’t just build their country houses in England. Scattered across the whole British Isles are grand houses that remind one of…
/ 04.01.2012
I don’t ski. I have this image of gliding out onto the slope and slowly sinking into the snow as my weight proves too…
/ 04.12.2011
This is one of those accidental Reviews. They happen when a stay en-route to a targeted hotel or for some other reason finds me…
/ 04.12.2011
The owner lives on the other side of the bay, looking on to his hotel, or at least the Victorian seaside hotel that was…
/ 07.10.2011
Louvre Hotels Group brands are known to generations of UK travellers through France. My first visit to a Campanile in the 1980’s amused me….
/ 04.10.2011
The hotel market in Cardiff has boomed. Most of the major chains are now present, and the City has bloomed under devolved government, tourism…
/ 04.07.2011
Whilst football is often said to be a game of two halves, Chapmans Peak hotel, known popularly locally simply as ‘Chappies’, is a hotel…
/ 04.05.2011
Refreshed? Mint is the new brand name for City Inns as they continue to grow the group, this being one of two large hotels…
/ 04.02.2011
Falmouth has its place in history, its place as a centre of the web. Not the internet but a network of Royal Mail packet…
/ 23.01.2011
I’ve lost count of the number of trips I have made into what we must now call Central Europe over the last ten years….
/ 06.01.2011
Many things can drive the genesis of a new hotel chain, but mostly it is driven by personal views of owners. Room Mate was…
/ 23.12.2010
Any ski hotel will fill if it is positioned at the bottom of the ski-lifts. The Royal Spa sits on the edge of Jochberg,…
/ 23.11.2010
Set in the Silesian coalfields, Katowice is a city of concrete. Dotted around the skyline of this grey city are sets of the pithead…
/ 23.10.2010
I have just featured two hotels (Cube and Ongava) where the guests’ needs, in terms of why they are at those locations, has driven…
/ 23.09.2010
The boy was nervous, shining his torch carefully into the shadows, walking slowly so we were treading on his heels. The man with the…
/ 23.08.2010
I have a fascination with railway hotels. In Britain, they were part of the revolution in travel and hotel use in the mid-nineteenth century….
/ 22.08.2010
Cube’s name is expressive. The building is a glass cube, unashamedly modernist amongst the traditional Tyrolean valley chalet style architecture. The ‘shock of the…
/ 06.08.2010
Noel Coward’s ‘Brief Encounter’ was set on a railway platform in which a couple waiting for different trains fall for one another. Returning to…
/ 21.07.2010
We tend to think of the USA as a new country filled with new buildings. However the preservation of old buildings is as much…
/ 21.06.2010
South Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere, which means its seasons are the reverse of those in the Northern Hemisphere – as upside down…
/ 06.01.2010
To look into the increasing popularity of small and personal luxury cruises in 2009 we headed to Scotland to sample a cruise along the…