Tag : Boutique Hotels

Enlightened by real luxury across the Atlantic

I love luxury, I love boutique. I make no apologies for it. I love chic hotels with rich sophisticated interiors, refined facilities, breathtaking views, elegant surroundings and dazzling service. I love sampling lavish award winning food, exploring new destinations, and enjoy stylish, comfortable, and sumptuous living.

Review: Riad Les Trois Mages - Marrakech, Morocco

'Boutique Hotel' is a term banded about by a staggering range of accommodation types from shabby beach huts to gorgeous design properties, and a true definition of Boutique Hotel is impossible to nail down. For me, it's all about the personal touch, considered and individual design, uniqueness and an outstanding service.

Restaurant & Bar Design Horrors - Style Over Substance

In the summer of 95 I opened my first pub, a wood heavy concept known as a 'Firkin'. In true big-company style, the re-furb went way over schedule but the opening date remained the same, meaning that me and my team stayed up through the night setting up the pub for it's grand launch that day.

What use does Sustainable Development have within the hospitality industry?

The growing pressure in the media, from the government and consumers for more action on the environment is forcing increasing numbers of businesses to implement environmentally friendly policies. The hospitality industry has been fairly late to the game, with ill-advised problems being sited...

Why are smaller restaurants, bars & hotels not engaging a Sustainable Development (SD) Strategy?

First off, there is no valid reason why smaller companies within hospitality are not engaging a SD strategy. Save money, improve customer trust in your brand, gain positive PR... the list goes on.

Order & Chaos - Effective Design Opposites

How do you create inspired and unique environments on an island where almost all the architecture is absolutely identical? An island where there are only two colours in the palette, white and blue? A sea of whitewash in stark contrast against the backdrop of a brown, barren landscape so that buildings dazzle in the sun? (If visiting, don't forget your sunglasses and go easy on the hangovers!)

Paradise by Design

Like many of the planet's most beautiful locations, the Pacific coast of Mexico has suffered at the hands of the mega-resorts whose consideration of the local environment, history and culture is, at best, limited. Motivated purely by investment return, towering concrete blocks of replica rooms with neo-traditional, theme-park imitation architecture designed to pack in tasteless tourists by the thousands blot the landscape, ironically destroying the very environment that made the place attractive in the first instance. Paradise reduced to blandness.