Contributor/ Michelle Lewis Best Known For Salinda is the first five-star hotel in Phu Quoc (pronounced fu kwok), a Vietnamese island just off the coast of Cambodia. The hotel opened in October 2014. Phu Quoc is a relatively new holiday destination, and is expected to become Vietnam’s Phuket – which...
Contributor/ Michelle Lewis Best Known For There’s lots of hype currently surrounding the Hoxton’s baby sister in Holborn, so we thought we’d pay a visit to the original Hoxton in Shoreditch to see whether it’s still a swinging scene. And it is – the bar was packed on Friday night with hipsters...
Contributor/ Michelle Lewis Best Known For The Langham has serious history: it was Europe’s first grand hotel when it opened in 1865. Arthur Conan Doyle included the Langham in two of his Sherlock Holmes stories, and notable guests include Napoleon III, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Princess Diana. The British...
Contributor/ Michelle Lewis Best Known For The expat American literati of the 1920s loved Paris – and they particularly loved bars. The mahogany-lined drinking establishment at the Hotel du Pont Royal in Paris’ Saint Germain-des-pres district was a favourite of such writers as Henry Miller, the Fitzgeralds...
From a young age it is steeped within us that Paris is the city in which to fall in love. Sophistication, elegance and grandeur live here so its rather easy to see why it is largely regarded as the Fashion capital of the world. And with a crowd so achingly hip, the hotel scene is […]
Contributor/ Michelle Lewis Best Known For I took a weekend trip Amsterdam in late 2012 with my husband to check out the city in advance of its big anniversary year, 2013. The city’s canal ring celebrated its 400th anniversary, and the Royal Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam...
