Mint Hotel, Tower Bridge London (Patrick Goff)
Refreshed? Mint is the new brand name for City Inns as they continue to grow the group, this being one of two large hotels…
/ 04.05.2011
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…