St James’s Club Morgan Bay hotel review, St Lucia

Visiting St Lucia with children provides all kinds of delights and fun. Here, we review St James’s Club Morgan Bay — one of the best all-inclusive resorts in St Lucia. [NOTE: Be sure to check the site about openings because of the pandemic.] Some of the best things about the resort: most motorised sports andContinue reading “St James’s Club Morgan Bay hotel review, St Lucia”

Cotswolds: Staying at Cowley Manor with teens

Take my advice when you visit Cowley Manor, the chic family hotel in the Cotswolds. Even if the Isamu Noguchi table in the sitting room is a little ill-placed, don’t try to move it yourself. Even when you know the freeform glass top merely rests on the swiveling wooden legs and even when you thinkContinue reading “Cotswolds: Staying at Cowley Manor with teens”

Secret delights of Moliets, France, with Madame Vacances

  Moliets et Maa has a problem. The French beach destination is an hour and a half southeast of Bordeaux, and merely an hour north of Biarritz. It has pine forests, beaches, lakes, tennis and golf clubs, and cycle paths. There are enough activities to keep kids happy and exhausted for a week. The problemContinue reading “Secret delights of Moliets, France, with Madame Vacances”

Hotel review: Best Western Port Aransas, Texas

Best Western is a long-respected motel chain. It used to have a great red and yellow logo with a distinctive crown. I miss that retro crown. In its place now is a clean blue-and-white “BW”. I wasn’t sure about the new-look branding but I felt comfortable booking into a brand I knew and (at leastContinue reading “Hotel review: Best Western Port Aransas, Texas”

Berkshire: Eat well & stay at Hurley House Hotel & Pub

Like most people who live in London, I think about how nice it would be to live in the country about, oh, once a month. Whether or not I could actually leave the big city is different matter — I’ve lived in London and New York City before that for more than 25 years —Continue reading “Berkshire: Eat well & stay at Hurley House Hotel & Pub”

Hampshire: The Peat Spade Inn, Stockbridge

  Sometimes you just get lucky. A friend of a friend or a colleague or someone you know from somewhere recommends a place to stay and it looks good online so you book it. We’ve all been on the other end of this. Where you book someplace whose website looks marvelous and it ends up youContinue reading “Hampshire: The Peat Spade Inn, Stockbridge”

The luxury hotels that love bees

Honey makes the world go round. It’s not the usual way that phrase goes, but it was certainly the motto at The Joy of Bees, an immersive art installation that took place this month in Soho with the brilliant guys at Bompas & Parr along with Relais & Chateaux. At the event, you could driftContinue reading “The luxury hotels that love bees”

Bath: A video room review of Bath Mill Lodge Retreat

Recently we did that rare thing for parents, we spent a weekend away just the two us. We went to Bath and stayed in the lovely Bath Mill Lodge Retreat, self-catering accommodation situated in a lovely little landscaped campus, just minutes by car from the city centre. We had breakfast and shopped at a fantasticContinue reading “Bath: A video room review of Bath Mill Lodge Retreat”

England: Review of Bath Mill Lodge Retreat

My husband and I dropped our daughter off like a sack of potatoes at Granny and Grandpa’s before we turned up at Bath Mill Lodge. I would have felt a twinge of guilt, but that was the whole idea of our stay here: Have a cosy couple’s getaway with access to the delights of Bath.Continue reading “England: Review of Bath Mill Lodge Retreat”

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