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Boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith search far and wide to bring you cutting-edge cool, on-the-pulse design and luxury travel trends. Get the low-down from their latest trips, find destination inspiration and posts from globetrotting insiders and travel connoisseurs, and all the latest news from Smith HQ.
Recent Posts
We ask the questions: Q&A with La Villa, and a man who knows his truffles
To the untrained eye, truffles may resemble nothing so closely as potatoes and lumps of volcanic rock. But this doesn’t deter some of the world’s most refined palates from shaving them into risottos and whipping them up with scrambled eg...
Around the world in 14 books
When trying to find the perfect tome to give someone at Christmas, how to resist the mawkish marketing-led drive on the three-for-two stand? The best advice is to follow your heart and give something you love. In case your heart’s own library o...
Hotel of the week: Lizard Island Resort
The competition’s hotting up for this little accolade, and one resort that preserves an effortless cool whatever the weather is Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Style Reef encounter Setting Rugged island Eden Why this week? Because win...
Tequila tutorials at the Met Bar
There’s been lots of festive cheer at Smith HQ lately but after a German-market bratwurst too many and an emotional Sunday afternoon spent weeping to It’s a Wonderful Life at the Soho Hotel, we decided we needed a lift. We found it at the...
Debuting in December: chic chalets, rustic retreats and working wineries
It may have been getting dark at 4.10pm but that hasn’t stopped us venturing out from our cosy comfort into the cold this Christmas. We’ve been searching Europe for its brightest boutique stars, calling in on France, Italy, Spain and the ...
What makes a Smith hotel?
It’s a question many people ask us. In the Independent on Sunday, this article reveals what we look for in a hotel to give it the Mr & Mrs Smith seal of approval. Of course there’s subjectivity when discussing style, and people defin...


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