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LLG Travels: A Day at Les Deux Tours, Marrakech

January 4, 2012 Hotels

One of the loveliest things about Les Deux Tours, the hotel in which we are staying in the Palmerie de Marrakech, is that, whilst the rooms are wonderful, the grounds are full of places to hide and dream. Hammocks, four poster beds under the trees, any number of terraces leading off the main building all […]

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LLG Hotel Review: The Smyth Tribeca

December 29, 2011 Hotels

I knew I was going to like The Smyth Tribeca on Manhattan from the moment my cab pulled up to the curb. Smiling, helpful bellboys, for whom nothing was too much trouble (in direct contrast to being generally ignored at the over-rated midtown tourist trap I had stayed in the night before), and then a […]

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LLG stays: The Feversham Arms Hotel & Verbena Spa, Helmsley, Yorkshire

November 25, 2011 Hotels

When I moved back to England eleven months ago I swore I would do more exploring in my own country instead of pinging around the world like a rubber band. That wasn’t entirely successful: so far this year for work I’ve been to Moscow, Stockholm, New York (twice), Milan, Florence, Paris (twice), Barcelona, Singapore, Poitiers, […]

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LLG Travels: Soho Beach House Miami Review (& Room Video)

November 17, 2011 Hotels

Oh this hotel made me very, very happy indeed. It’s the immaculate attention to detail that did it for me. Along with the feeling we had been transported to Havana during the forty odd years between World War I and Castro’s revolution. (Regardless of their art deco shells, most other hotels in Miami are determined […]

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LLG Hotels AND Beauty: Cowshed at Soho Beach House

November 7, 2011 Hotels

One of my biggest hotel hates are those teeny tiny bottles of toiletries. Difficult to squeeze, never full enough and just about as un-environmentally friendly as you can get. Enter the Soho House Group and their two hotels: The Dean Street Townhouse in London and Soho Beach House in Miami, where I stayed last night. […]

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LLG Design: Soho Grand Hotel Bathroom Wallpaper

October 27, 2011 Design

I was talking wallpaper yesterday with a friend. As you do. And we decided that our favourite bathroom paper was to be found in the Soho Grand Hotel in New York. Designed by the New Yorker magazine cartoonist Saul Steinberg in the 1950s, it’s a riot of birds doing their thing. (I love that the […]

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LLG Travels Video: Deep Relaxation at Grayshott Spa Hotel

October 25, 2011 Hotels

Given that for two years I pretty much lived on the road, since I’ve been back in the UK I’ve been putting quality over quantity where spending time with my girlfriends has been concerned. Hotels are the gold standard for girlfriend catching up – we get to hole up with no distractions, and hang out. […]

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Istanbul: The Restaurant at The Four Seasons Sultanahmet Hotel

September 7, 2011 Hotels

I’ve always wanted to stay at the Four Seasons Sultanahmet in Istanbul. Set within an old Ottoman prison in the shadow of Aya Sofia, it’s the most glorious hotel. \ On my short research trip to Istanbul last November, I didn’t have time to stay, but my mother and I went for lunch in the […]

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LLG Travels: A Long Weekend in the North of England

August 13, 2011 Hotels

Our old schoolfriend Julian is getting married in Durham Cathedral this weekend. It’s about a four drive north from London — which, in English terms is like driving to the moon. The train is easy but, given that the north of England is so beautiful, and that lil’sis’ MS makes getting around a bit problematic, […]

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Nancy Wake: Heroine of the Resistance & lesson to us all

Thumbnail image for Nancy Wake: Heroine of the Resistance & lesson to us all August 9, 2011 Hotels

Back in September last year I stayed at The Stafford Hotel in St James whilst I was covering London Fashion Week. I knew little about the hotel, tucked away down an almost missed side street, bar that it was reputed to be astonishingly discreet (and therefore popular with diplomats & A-listers) and exceptionally comfortable. I […]

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