Tips from the T-List

Seaham Hall Hotel Seaham Hall Serenity Spa The Serenity Spa at the Seaham Hall Hotel is brilliant and has been recently voted as the Best UK Spa Destination by the Conde Nast Traveller great pamper days for you. Conde is an international publication and this award is of the highest quality.... (more...)

When it comes to our boutique hotels, we’re as proud as first-time parents. We’ll show you photos of them, sing their praises ’til we’re hoarse in the throat, and coax you to come visit, so you can see for yourself. We feel the same gush of love for our Smith reviewers – finding a more talented... (more...)

When we launched our debut collection of Smith boutique hotels in Sri Lanka recently, one name kept coming up. That of the country’s most famous architect, Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003). We’ve rounded up some of the world’s best boutique hotel designers before, but in no other place that... (more...)

This month, we’ve got a whole new host of summer-ready sanctuaries, including three island hideaways on Santorini: the seven secluded Aenaon Villas, the all-white Avaton Resort & Spa and the neutral-hued Kapari Natural Resort (below). Another trio debuts in New Orleans, as we reveal the fruits... (more...)

We’re off to sunny southern Spain this week to award an old olive mill a very special accolade. Step forward La Fuente de la Higuera in Ronda, Andalucia, land of dizzying, deserted gorges, heady hilltop towns and today’s happening hotel of the week… Style Trad Andalucia Setting Close... (more...)

This month, Rob our resident TuneSmith, has come over all nostalgic, soundtracking high summer with a band that references Nineties greats and taking his turntable back to 1962 to relive the pioneering jazz sounds of Ray Charles… ALBUM OF THE MONTH Buffalo by The Phoenix Foundation When? You need... (more...)

Bean there, done that? You haven’t earned your caffeinated stripes until you’ve toured Melbourne’s best cafés. Like Seattle and Milan, this is a city obsessed with sourcing the perfect cup of coffee, with baristas roasting, grinding, blending, brewing and pouring as if their beards depended on... (more...)

You only need to spend a minute or two in Montauk to know you’re in surfer country. Must be the Havaianas and hoodies: slacker-chic beachwear is the unofficial uniform on this stretch of Long Island. Somehow, however, Montauk sidesteps the see-and-sceney vibe of the other Hamptons, and keeps it small-town... (more...)