This is our review of the new Hilton Saigon hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Somewhat surprisingly, Hilton Saigon is the only Hilton hotel in Vietnam’s most populous city. I don’t just mean .....

This is our review of the new Hilton Saigon hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Somewhat surprisingly, Hilton Saigon is .....

2 Dec 20242 December 2024 by Rhys Jones • 28 comments

This is our review of the Park Hyatt Saigon hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This is the first of four hotel reviews from a recent trip to Vietnam. My first time there was in 2019, as part of a .....

This is our review of the Park Hyatt Saigon hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This is the first of four .....

1 Dec 20241 December 2024 by Rhys Jones • 30 comments

This is our review of the Swinton Park Hotel in Yorkshire, part of the ‘Beyond Green’ marketing group. Ever since I saw Swinton Park on BBC’s Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby .....

This is our review of the Swinton Park Hotel in Yorkshire, part of the ‘Beyond Green’ marketing .....

30 Nov 202430 November 2024 by Conny Urban • 20 comments

This is our review of the Cowley Manor Experimental hotel in the Cotswolds. Our plan for half term had been to go to Dubai to catch some sun but life got in the way and we had to postpone the trip .....

This is our review of the Cowley Manor Experimental hotel in the Cotswolds. Our plan for half term had been to .....

16 Nov 202416 November 2024 by Conny Urban • 31 comments

This is our review of the new Park Hyatt London River Thames hotel. Regular readers will remember that we were invited to a media event in the Presidential Suite to celebrate the opening of the hotel, .....

This is our review of the new Park Hyatt London River Thames hotel. Regular readers will remember that we were .....

13 Nov 202413 November 2024 by Conny Urban • 43 comments

This is our review of the Raffles Europejski Warsaw hotel in Poland, part of Accor Live Limitless. Why Warsaw? Good question. It certainly wasn’t in my plans at the start of the year. However, .....

This is our review of the Raffles Europejski Warsaw hotel in Poland, part of Accor Live Limitless. Why Warsaw? .....

1 Nov 20241 November 2024 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

This is our review of the EPISODE Daan Taipei hotel in Taiwan. For the second half of my Taiwan trip I stayed at the EPISODE hotel, which opened in May 2024. This is the second EPISODE hotel in Taiwan .....

This is our review of the EPISODE Daan Taipei hotel in Taiwan. For the second half of my Taiwan trip I stayed .....

26 Oct 202426 October 2024 by Rhys Jones • 4 comments

This is our review of Lindner Hotel Boltenhagen, part of World of Hyatt. Back in June 2023 we reported how Hyatt had made an agreement with German group Lindner Hotels AG that saw more than 30 hotels .....

This is our review of Lindner Hotel Boltenhagen, part of World of Hyatt. Back in June 2023 we reported how .....

18 Oct 202418 October 2024 by Conny Urban • 29 comments

This is our review of Hilton’s Conrad Osaka hotel in Japan. After two nights in Nagoya (TIAD Nagoya hotel review here) I took the Shinkansen bullet train about 50 minutes west to Osaka. Both .....

This is our review of Hilton’s Conrad Osaka hotel in Japan. After two nights in Nagoya (TIAD Nagoya .....

29 Sep 202429 September 2024 by Rhys Jones • 31 comments

This is our review of the TIAD hotel in Nagoya, Japan. And, before you ask, ‘TIAD’ stands for ‘Tomorrow Is Another Day’. Yes, it’s very kawaii. (Quick note for regular .....

This is our review of the TIAD hotel in Nagoya, Japan. And, before you ask, ‘TIAD’ stands for .....

28 Sep 202428 September 2024 by Rhys Jones • 41 comments

This is our review of The Bodrum EDITION hotel in Turkey, part of Marriott Bonvoy. Our family summer holiday brought us to Istanbul and Bodrum this year, and as both hotels had a points and loyalty .....

This is our review of The Bodrum EDITION hotel in Turkey, part of Marriott Bonvoy. Our family summer holiday .....

22 Sep 202422 September 2024 by Conny Urban • 78 comments

This is our review of the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul hotel on the shores of the Bosphorus. Turkey had been on our list for a family holiday for a long time – we had to cancel a previous .....

This is our review of the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul hotel on the shores of the Bosphorus. Turkey had .....

21 Sep 202421 September 2024 by Conny Urban • 49 comments

This is our review of the Manchester Marriott Hotel Piccadilly, which used to be a Macdonald hotel. I was invited to Manchester last week for the opening party, which was a surprisingly big budget and .....

This is our review of the Manchester Marriott Hotel Piccadilly, which used to be a Macdonald hotel. I was .....

20 Sep 202420 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

This is my pre-opening review of Accor’s 25hours Hotel Paper Island in Copenhagen. It is the first time in 12 years that HfP has reviewed a hotel before it opened to the public. We weren’t .....

This is my pre-opening review of Accor’s 25hours Hotel Paper Island in Copenhagen. It is the first time .....

20 Aug 202420 August 2024 by Conny Urban • 19 comments