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SIR – Camilla Tominey states that some leading lights want to use “Partygate” to bring down the country’s “ultimate anti-establishment politician”. ....
Hotels are back – and our roving reviewers are once again doing what they love best These four beautiful British hotels should be on your wishlist for a summer staycation Our reviewers are back doing what they love best Hotels are back baby! Check-in desks, crisp linens, bountiful breakfast spreads, champagne in bed, freestanding tubs (with more champagne?), a place far from the ennui of your own four walls. Oh, how I have missed them. They have become a collective place where I contain all my fantasies of future ‘normal’ life. In my dreams I’m in a riad courtyard in 40C heat in Marrakech; listening to the sirens and noises of a city back-to-life from a high rise in New York; sunbathing next to a ladder into the sea on a Mediterranean island. In truth, as it currently stands, I’m staying closer to home: my first hotel booking in a couple of weeks is at the newly opened Glebe House in Devon, a boutique wonder that makes my heart flutter every time I thin ....
Sweet (hotel) dreams are made of these: our hotel reviewers imagine the places they’d most like to stay Stunning views, hammocks and caipirinhas to hand. Fiona Duncan and friends imagine the places they’d most like to review 30 January 2021 • 8:00am Fiona Duncan s perfect hotel is run by fifth generation of Italian hoteliers, like Positano s Le Sirenuse Credit: ROBERTO SALOMONE Like many people, I have unexpected time on my hands. I get up when I like, I go to bed early to avoid the prolonged consumption of alcohol, and in between I drift about in a daze. Normally (whenever that was) I’m pretty busy, dashing about reviewing hotels for this newspaper. I love hotels and have stayed in hundreds of them but, I reflect as I loll on my lockdown sofa, I have never yet given a perfect 10/10 score. What then, I muse, is my dream hotel? ....