Mary Gostelow

They managed it. Thanks to the determination and thoughtfulness of the Ueberroth family, the long-awaited Global Conference of Preferred Hotels & Resorts took place in Boston, 16-18 November 2021. About 250 delegates took part: I must be unusually vague as at least one in-person attendee had to pull out, for isolation, and there were throughout…

For an authentic and truly unique experience, think Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle, about 40 minutes from Paris. You can even, at times,…

What IS French style? In Paris, the palace that is Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel, gives a clue. The recipe requires history, design, at least a pinch of…

From next Monday, 1 November 2021, Australians can once again travel overseas. Like travel enthusiasts elsewhere, some may dust off their passports and invest in a trip of a lifetime. They will find even old and much-loved favourites have added new, exciting experiences.

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…

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 Cyclades island. As you would expect on a Greek island in the Mediterranean, the chapel is pristine white outside, like all the buildings on the eight-hectare estate. And as you would also expect…

New York’s icon, The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, is so called because when it was being built, in 1930, Diana Ginsberg Jaffe, daughter of the developer, Moses…

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…

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 centre is one-way traffic and, anyway, trains run direct, at least every half hour from London Paddington, 80 minutes due west to the centre of Bath.