There’s something reassuring about visiting a chain restaurant, especially one as successful as Carluccio. You know it’s not going to be Cordon Bleu cooking yet they are familiar and there is an expectation that you…

Sometimes an independent luxury boutique hotel hits the spot for privacy and intimacy. If that’s want you are yearning for right now, check out these luxurious and gorgeous new properties. Choose from a mountainside hotel…

Many Alpine ski resorts these days are far too bling. Visitors to those places often seem far more interested in parading up and down in designer coats and watches than actually skiing. That is certainly…

NB/ This article has been modified since its publication on 30 January 2019 when it was titled 10 new hotel openings in the Maldives.  Much loved by tourists for its beaches, blue lagoons and extensive reefs…

A genuine 5* hotel was long overdue in Tashkent, so the opening of the impressive Hyatt Regency Tashkent in 2016 was incredibly welcome. This dazzling white structure is in the heart of Uzbekistan’s capital, right next door…

The restaurant scene in London’s St James has a new boy on the block. Well not exactly new, as this is newest incarnation of The Wellington Club which started a rather interesting social history in…

When I booked a table at the intriguingly named POTUS, I was half expecting to walk through the door and be greeted by a giant inflatable Trump baby, or at the very least a “Make American…

Staying in Le Cour des Consuls is like getting two hotels for the price of one – the property includes a pair of buildings, one dating  back to the 16th century and one to the…