Longing for a hotel break with a restaurant, spa or tennis courts but still want a bit of distance between you and other guests? An increasing number of UK hotels now offer self-catering cottages in their grounds, which allows the best of both worlds: a cosy, self-contained stay, together with top-notch facilities – and food … Read more
World winners Best Ski Resort 2020: Val Thorens (France) Best Freestyle Resort 2020: Laax (Switzerland) Best Ski Hotel 2020: W Verbier (Switzerland) Best New Ski Hotel 2020: Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono (Japan) Best Green Ski Hotel 2020: Valsana Hotel & Appartements (Switzerland) Best Ski Boutique Hotel 2020: Aurelio Lech (Austria) Best Ski Chalet 2020: Chalet Zermatt Peak (Switzerland) … Read more
At Christmas, Britain’s most beautiful hotels are far grander than our four walls and come with stately proportions, splendid traditions and no arguments over the washing-up. Check into one of these luxury hotels and you’ll find gargantuan feasts and even bigger Christmas trees, plus estates and beautifully tended gardens to explore. Most offer a package … Read more
Numbers of migrants housed full-board in hotels rockets NINEFOLD costing taxpayers tens of millions of pounds a year amid record number of Channel crossings Asylum seekers are being put up in 100 hotels across the UK with full board A surge from 1,200 in March was caused by pandemic and record crossings Nearly £400million is … Read more
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has said it has managed to open dozens of premises despite its hotel rooms remaining mostly unoccupied. The FTSE 100 firm, which owns the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza chains, revealed it opened 82 hotels in the three months to September 30, taking the number it has opened this year to … Read more
Hotels in Britain have suffered from a collapse in bookings with some losing more than half of them after the new three-tier local lockdown system was brought in. Families worried about local coronavirus rules in UK towns and cities are instead looking at half-term holidays abroad in countries without a quarantine requirement. Interest among Britons … Read more
Hospitality chiefs today warned that London‘s hotels, pubs and restaurants could be ‘decimated’ by new coronavirus restrictions if the capital is plunged into a second tier lockdown. The city, which has a population of nine million, is expected to be ranked as a ‘medium’ risk zone in the Government’s new three-tier system of local alerts … Read more
Poolside bars, revolving restaurants, marbled lobbies and huge indoor swimming pools. These are standard features in posh Western hotels – and, it turns out, in North Korean hotels, too, as a fascinating new book reveals. Hotels of Pyongyang, by author James Scullin and photographer Nicole Reed, takes readers inside the frozen-in-time, yet surprisingly glamorous, hotels … Read more
BEST HOTEL IN LONDON: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park BEST HOTEL IN THE REST OF THE UK: Gleneagles, Scotland BEST HOTEL IN IRELAND: The Westbury, Dublin BEST HOTEL IN PARIS: La Réserve Paris Hotel & Spa BEST HOTEL IN THE REST OF FRANCE & MONACO: Grand-Hotel Du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel BEST HOTEL IN ROME: … Read more
Revealed: Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions Asylum seekers are being driven in taxis from airports to hotels or interviews Clearsprings Ready Homes is awarded £1.1billion Home Office contract over 10 years The private company houses migrants in south of England and Wales It has paid one … Read more