Hotel Reviews

It’s sweltering hot outside, and much as you enjoy messing around on your yacht, it’s a long time since you had a really nice shower, a comfortable bed and a room that doesn’t move.   Perhaps it’s time to check in here.  Many of the rooms overlook the harbour and some have small gardens with terraces.  

The biggest nuisance with flying is getting to and from the airport, especially for an early flight.  I therefore tend to try to stay at airport hotels to avoid the dreaded shuttle bus nightmare.  It probably isn’t a nightmare at all, but in my head and at some ungodly hour in the morning, my brain

You’d be a real dunce not to consider this  former school, now a boutique hotel, if you want somewhere comfortable and different in which to stay in central Manchester.   Fashioned from a Victorian school building, it has only 30 rooms, the temptation to cram in as many as possible being resisted.  Artfully retaining some of

How can that quintessentially British tradition – afternoon tea – be executed so well in a hotel on the Portuguese island of Madeira? The answer, of course, is that Reid’s Palace hotel has a long tradition with the British, starting with its founder, William Reid, a Scot. Even today, over 40 per cent of the

“How do I love thee?” wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Let me count the ways.” Hopefully, the answer is enough to take your loved one to Florence for a romantic getaway.   The UK is a miserable place in winter and a trip to Paris doesn’t quite cut the mustard either, as the weather is so