I recently spent five weeks travelling from one hotel to another down the west coast of the USA.  This was preceded by a week in Las Vegas.  I’ve been to the USA scores of times before, but not for such a long period and have never visited so many hotels and restaurants over such a

Reid’s Palace Hotel, Madeira has an interesting selection of free soft drinks in the room fridge, replenished daily and free DVDs and novels to borrow   The Dorchester, London places a real Christmas tree in their bedrooms and suites during the festive season, decorated with tasteful green and red bows and baubles   Bahia Del

I have visited many luxury hotels over the past few years and in the process have made a little ‘meh’ list.  Of course, it is a question of personal preference as to whether you do or do not like certain features; and it depends on whether you are travelling on your own, or for business,

The Lowe Alpine backpack is small enough to take on day trips, yet large enough and with six compartments of different sizes to hold all your essentials, a common failing with cheaper bags.  Made of durable and sponge clean material, it will survive a short rain shower too. It’s well made and is unlikely to

Gourmet travellers have an abundance of restaurants to choose from to indulge their passion for fine food and wines. Olivia Greenway picks some of the world’s best

TWO elderly Russian ladies wearing full-length mink fur coats carefully sip mugs of hot chocolate, their gnarled fingers heavy under the weight of gold rings. If there is one thing St Petersburg has in spades, it’s glamour.