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Without kids: Amba Hotel Marble Arch

November 16, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 23 Comments

Executive Lounge breakfast, Amba Hotel. Copyright Gretta Schifano

When we’re invited to review London’s newly opened four-star Amba Hotel Marble Arch, my kids aren’t interested in coming along. The hotel looks great, but we’ve been away quite a bit recently, and they just want to stay at home. My husband and I decide to go without them. A kind friend agrees to come […]

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Categories: City, London, Luxury, Room reports
Tags: family friendly hotels, London hotels, Luxury hotels

Parador Resort, Costa Rica

September 18, 2015 by Lorenza Bacino 19 Comments

Monkey. Image courtesy of Parador Resort & Spa

This is a guest post by Anglo-Italian journalist Lorenza Bacino. In August Lorenza, her husband and their two children went to Costa Rica in Central America for their family holiday and it sounds like they had a brilliant time. Lorenza is writing a series of articles for Mums do travel about what they got up to and in […]

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Categories: Costa Rica, Luxury, Room reports
Tags: family friendly hotels, Luxury hotels, Manuel Antonio National Park, Parador

Room Report: Goodwood Hotel

February 20, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 17 Comments

Goodwood Hotel twin room. Copyright Gretta Schifano

The Goodwood Hotel is on the Goodwood Estate on the edge of the beautiful South Downs National Park near England’s South coast. Goodwood House was bought by the first Duke of Richmond as a hunting lodge in 1697 and today is home to the Earl of March, heir to the current Duke of Richmond. The […]

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Categories: Elsewhere, Luxury, Room reports
Tags: family friendly hotels, Goodwood, Goodwood Hotel, Home Farm, Luxury hotels, Sussex

Room report: Royal Garden Hotel

October 4, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 8 Comments

View of Kensington Palace from our hotel room. Copyright Gretta Schifano

The Royal Garden Hotel The Royal Garden Hotel is a five star luxury hotel in London’s Kensington, right next to Kensington Gardens. I stayed at the hotel recently and shared a twin room with fellow blogger Grace from Eats Amazing. MAD blog awards We were at the hotel for the 2014 MAD (it stands for […]

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Categories: City, London, Luxury, Room reports
Tags: five star hotels, Kensington, Luxury hotels, Royal Garden Hotel

10 reasons why Sicily’s Verdura Resort is great for families

August 11, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

Verdura Golf & Spa Resort. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Children who go on a Scott Dunn holiday to Sicily’s beautiful Verdura Golf & Spa Resort are so well looked after there that they may never recover from the experience. I don’t think that my two will ever want to go anywhere else after our trip there in July: my son actually asked me if […]

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Categories: Italy, Luxury
Tags: kids clubs, Luxury hotels, Scott Dunn, Sicily, Verdura Golf & Spa Resort

St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London

January 6, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 44 Comments

Grand Staircase. Image courtesy of St Pancras Renaissance Hotel.

The fabulous St Pancras Renaissance Hotel has to be one of the most surprising places I’ve ever stayed. I was surprised to be there at all – my friend Kirstie Pelling of The Family Adventure Project invited me to keep her company on a review trip – and even more surprised when I saw what […]

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Categories: City, London, Luxury, Room reports
Tags: Luxury hotels, St Pancras Renaissance hotel

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