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London's Ham Yard Hotel, right in the middle of Soho and two minutes' walk from Piccadilly Circus, wins the trophy for the English capital's most-decorated hotel 2018. The unforgettable property's GM Laura Sharpe is rated by the leading trade magazine CATERER as best GM in the whole of UK; the owning company, Firmdale Hotels, is best hotel group,…

There's always something new at Chewton Glen Hampshire, once again awarded 'best English country house hotel' by the UK's trade publication, CATERER. I wanted…

Built in 1909 by architect Knud Arne-Petersen for the city's top restaurateurs, the Nimb family, Mary Gostelow stays the night in the hotel with direct access…

Santorini, named for St Irene, is one of Greece's most popular islands, and from June to September hotels are jam-packed. Mary Gostelow, Girl Ahead, took in two of the regions fabled cliff-side retreats: Iconic Santorini and Grace Santorini.

This is unforgettable luxury, a 52-room Small Luxury Hotel of the World which is owned and run with non-stop passion.

Boston Harbor Hotel is the result of an extremely astute developer, Norman Leventhal.  He realised in the 1980s that putting a hotel into an office block right…

In 2018, the 235-room Peninsula New York celebrates its 30th birthday – it opened in 1988 as The Gotham, switching names ten years later when it was bought by Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels. 

For many guests the 30-metre pool, flanked by both buildings, is the heart of the hotel, and sunworshippers have their favourite chairs from the moment light…

Really, I thought as I left the extraordinary super-luxury of Oetker's Palácio Tangará, this place embodies luxury of today and, I think, tomorrow: space and…

The first-ever ILTM Asia Pacific, 21–24 May 2018, was a resounding success. As Charles de Foucault, GM of One&Only Le Saint Géran, Mauritius, said at the end of the second day: "ILTM is so well organised, and the venue is spectacular."