Where to stay in Sapa in Northern Vietnam depends on what kind of trip you want. If it’s your first time in Sapa and you’re mixing things up – doing a hike, a Bac Ha market day trip, textile shopping, and savouring local fare – stay in Sapa town in a hotel or bed and … Read more
Where to stay in Seminyak isn’t an easy decision to make with an abundance of luxury lodgings and chic boutique hotels peppering Bali’s most stylish suburb. Our very selective guide includes everything from lavish ocean-side resorts with palm-fringed infinity pools to more affordable design-driven boutique hotels. As far as we’re concerned if you’re in Bali … Read more
The best Bangkok hotels for foodies range from atmospheric Shanghai Mansion, slap bang in the centre of Chinatown, and the sleek Como Metropolitan, home to Nahm, long one of Bangkok’s best Thai restaurants, to the Mandarin Oriental, home to the Oriental Thai Cooking School, one of Bangkok’s finest cooking schools and one of the world’s best … Read more
Where to stay in Battambang depends on what kind of holiday you want. If you want to get away from it all, there are beautiful boutique hotels in colonial style mansions and atmospheric wooden houses with stunning pools. If you want something cheap and cheerful, you’ll find that too in no-frills city centre hotels. Battambang … Read more
After a couple of months staying in boutique hotels in Siem Reap and Bangkok, we’ve reaffirmed something we’ve increasingly felt over the years and that’s that when it comes to choosing hotel accommodation when we travel, boutique hotels suit us better. We much prefer small local boutique hotels to big bland multinationals. We’ll take more … Read more