Alexander the Great (Patrick Goff)
Sleeping umbrellas and rear elevation curling around the pool, balconies giving guests a view of the beach and sea Reception lobby – click to…
/ 03.01.2015
Sleeping umbrellas and rear elevation curling around the pool, balconies giving guests a view of the beach and sea Reception lobby – click to…
/ 09.11.2014
Putting new in old, contemporary into antique, can be a difficult trick. Mix in English vernacular style and wave a designers’ wand. Magic in…
/ 14.10.2014
Breezy Bay for Bracing Blows October and the sea temperature is nearly 70 degrees, and bikini clad sunbathers catch the last rays of the…
/ 09.10.2014
I try to look at different types of hotels in both Reviews (166 of them) and Miniviews (and there are over 150 of those),…
/ 06.09.2014
For many years my practice worked for island hotel groups, the Hugglers (see Club Hotel and Spa) and the Seymours of Jersey (see the…
/ 06.05.2014
Going green means many things to many people, from adding solar power panels to a roof to a through total reworking of energy use….
/ 06.04.2014
When I stayed at the Shangri-La in Dubai I had no doubts about what I would be looking at. The review was specifically so…
/ 06.03.2014
Now owned since 1998 by Elite Hotels, enough time has passed since the ownership of De Vere to be able to see the image…
/ 05.02.2014
It stands almost as a symbolic icon of the recovery of Germany from past disasters. Top floors burned out, requisition by occupation forces, rebuilt…
/ 06.01.2014
Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, Every morning commuter trains bring civil servants in to work, in a town with tree shaded…
/ 05.11.2013
Budget hotels have flourished in recession. Not only will business people trade down, but the ‘bang per buck’ element has become exaggerated as new…
/ 07.08.2013
The building is an existing 116 bedroom hotel in San Francisco, built in 1913. It had been recently purchased by Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and…
/ 05.07.2013
Last time I rode a luxury train it was the Orient Express UK end, steam pulled from London to Kidderminster, and not the blue…
/ 05.06.2013
In February 2005 I reported that Shangri-La had signed a lease on the space in then planned Shard, and had already started design work…
/ 05.03.2013
A few years ago I was in Washington to Review a couple of hotels. Staying in a Staybridge Suites I was collared by the…
/ 05.01.2013
Babbacombe is just along the road from Torquay – so close in fact that some people class it as Torquay suburbs, but it is…
/ 05.12.2012
Like many Brits, my images of America are part Hollywood, part romance,part television all tempered with the reality of numerous visits over the years….
/ 04.10.2012
Unmissable as you drive in to Exeter, this 60 bedroom hotel occupies a spectacular example of a re-engineered building. The hotel is a conversion…
/ 04.08.2012
Aquae Sulis was the Roman name for this spa. The British of course are more ‘lumpen’ than classical, so called it Bath. It has…
/ 04.07.2012
Seaside towns have a look about them. The ocean close by obviously, but the kind of shops they have – a strange mix of…
/ 04.05.2012
Lancashire can appear a very strange place full of witches and forests as well as seaside towns and industrial centres. In the late 18th…