by David Hibbins | Aug 23, 2024 | Latest Travel News
Catarina on reception is doing her best – but she’s all alone and busy on the telephone explaining the rate to a potential guest while several actual guests (including me) are waiting to check in.It’s not her fault, but you might think that a brand new hotel just off...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2024 | Latest Travel News
Fans of Challengers director Luca Guadagnino are going wild over his latest project: a luxury hotel in Rome. The Italian movie mastermind – who is behind a number of top films including the Zendaya-led film, Call My By Your Name and I Am Love...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2024 | Latest Travel News
A Spirit Airlines passenger was left infuriated when she tried to sit in the front row – an experience she paid extra for – only to find someone else in her place.’Today, I get on the plane last… someone is occupying my seat 1A, so I show the...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2024 | Latest Travel News
While no one would describe it as a thing of beauty, it was, nonetheless, an enthralling sight: a ten-storey ocean liner the size of a tower block amid the yachts and fishing boats in a historic little Cornish harbour.That was the sight which greeted the residents of...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2024 | Latest Travel News
Leith, Edinburgh’s idiosyncratic dockland quarter, has historically insalubrious associations.A one-time stomping ground for sailors and ladies of the night, in the 1990s it infamously became the setting for Irvine Welsh’s heroin addicts in Trainspotting.But don’t let...