This is my review of The Ritz Carlton Al Wadi Desert resort in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. We stayed at Al Wadi just before Christmas, leaving on Christmas Eve.  I booked the stay using Marriott Bonvoy .....

11 Feb 202111 February 2021 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

This is our review of the London Marriott County Hall hotel on the South Bank. Last month we wrote about the new ‘work from hotel’ packages that Marriott Bonvoy is offering. There are .....

14 Dec 202014 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 8 comments

This is Part 2 of our review of the London Marriott County Hall on the South Bank. You can read Part 1 of our Marriott County Hall review here. As we said in Part 1, Marriott has introduced three new .....

14 Dec 202014 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 16 comments

This is our review of the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at London Luton Airport. Bizarrely, this is our first review of a hotel at Luton Airport. I chose the Courtyard on this trip, partly because .....

9 Dec 20209 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 39 comments

This is our review of the DoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London hotel. After a month of working from the dining room table and getting on my housemates’ nerves, I was glad to be out and about .....

7 Dec 20207 December 2020 by Rhys Jones • 50 comments

This is our review of the Bankside Hotel in London, part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection. I had been keen to take a look at Marriott’s Bankside Hotel for some time now. It is, .....

16 Nov 202016 November 2020 by Rob Burgess • 21 comments

This is our review of the new Radisson London Heathrow Hotel. Formerly the Park Inn, the hotel saw a complete refurbishment and rebrand over the summer. It now serves two different brands: the .....

15 Nov 202015 November 2020 by Rhys Jones • 9 comments

This is a brief review of the Hampton by Hilton London Waterloo hotel. As I have mentioned before, I have been doing occasional work days from Hilton hotels around London using the ‘day .....

14 Nov 202014 November 2020 by Rob Burgess • 41 comments

This is, sort of, my review of the Hart Shoreditch Hotel London. It is part of Hilton’s Curio Collection of luxury independent hotels which allow you to earn and spend Hilton Honors points. The .....

19 Oct 202019 October 2020 by Rob Burgess • 92 comments

Today's theme is 'Wonders of Rejuvenation'. In need of a break after working flat out on the HfP website redesign for the last six months, I was delighted to accept an invitation to try out the the .....

9 Oct 20209 October 2020 by Rhys Jones • 61 comments

This is our review of the new Radisson RED London Heathrow hotel. Over the Summer, big changes took place at the h-u-g-e Park Inn hotel at Heathrow Airport. If you ever drive to Heathrow Terminal 2 or .....

2 Oct 20202 October 2020 by Rob Burgess • 71 comments

This is our review of the Holiday Inn Bournemouth hotel. My week was clearly heading downhill. I started at the lovely University Arms in Cambridge (review here), diverted to the Hilton Garden Inn .....

28 Sep 202028 September 2020 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

This is my review of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Airport hotel at Hatton Cross. We last reviewed this hotel back in early 2017.  It recently underwent a renovation so I thought it was .....

24 Sep 202024 September 2020 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

This is our review of The University Arms hotel in Cambridge. I hadn’t planned to visit The University Arms last weekend. However, my wife and I realised on Friday night that, once the .....

23 Sep 202023 September 2020 by Rob Burgess • 82 comments