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This is not a hotel but a lifestyle stage, says Charles Oak firmly. He’s the perennially-youthful creative GM of The Londoner, the two months’ old theatre of a hotel at the south-west corner of Leicester Square. From many of the 350 rooms, look out at the buzz – the square currently hosts wood masts imagining mythical animals. Look around, at live…

Marco Den Ouden, GM of Patina Maldives Fari Islands, does not believe in Googling people, and this undoubtedly helps attract real top-flight celebs. "Look,…

This must be the most intimate working chapel in Greece - St George’s, at stunning Santa Marina Mykonos, high above Ornos Bay, in the south-west of this…

If influencers attract others of that breed, The Beaumont is key in London. Last week it seemed every one of the six front-of-hotel tables now permanently serving food, drink – and faultless fastest-speed free connectivity – was taken.

Next time in London, take at least an overnight out-of-that-city to experience the more relaxed uniqueness of Bath. Do not even think of driving. Much of Bath…

The key to consistent, highly-rated service is a dream team, says Mario Egger, GM of Augustine, Prague. The 101-key hotel has, consistently for the last four…

Many niche hobbyists already know The Peninsula’s Quail Lodge and Golf Club in Carmel, California. Car enthusiasts, for instance, have on their annual diaries The Quail Motorsports, and The Quail Best of the Best, when prominent classic car collectors Laurence Graff and Jay Leno join former Formula 1’s McLaren designer Gordon Murray, and others, to…

At least a considerable part of Switzerland’s wealth, in the form of gold, at least, was hidden in bunkers under Gstaad Palace during WWII. No, it has long…

The 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, 15th August 1771, is being celebrated not only in his native Scotland but around the literary world (who…

Summer Lodge Country House Hotel, Restaurant and Spa in the quintessentially-English county of Dorset, is a textbook example of how even a possibly-dowdy luxury hotel can be brought to 2021-style WOW. After a decade away, I do admit I was amazed. Jack Mackenzie, the South African who runs the 25-room property with his wife Alex, a History of Art…