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Reviews by The Hotel Inspector
Le Clos Medicis | The Hotel InspectorThe charming owner of this justly popular Left Bank hotel, Pascal Beherec, has departed for warmer climes, now living in Marrakech, where he has opened the luxurious Villa des Orangers. His Paris base, however, remains in the caring hands of his...-
Hotel Crillon le Brave
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The Hotel Inspector
The charms of the luxurious Crillon le Brave Provence, occupying seven stone houses in the hilltop village of Crillon le Brave, continue to inspire readers to fill our postbag with rave reviews. Delightful, enthuses one satisfied visitor. Very good...
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La Calcina
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The Hotel Inspector
La Calcina is well known as the house in Dorsoduro where Ruskin lived - and hard to resist, both for its historical connection and for its location facing the sunny straits of Venice's Giudecca canal. It is basically a simple pensione, inherited by...
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Driftwood
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The Hotel Inspector
Situated on seven glorious acres of Cornwall's finest heritage coastline, says the brochure and Driftwood Hotel does indeed provide all you could want from a seaside break in a Cornwall hotel. Its a whitewashed converted family house that has been...
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Millers
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The Hotel Inspector
If you are an antique lover who thinks your house is as full as it can be, a stay at Martin Millers London hotel (he is the author of the much respected Millers Antiques Price Guide) will be an educational as well as a comfortable experience. Only...
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Gravetye Manor
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The Hotel Inspector
The country house hotel, now so much a part of the tourist scene in Britain, scarcely existed when Peter Herbert opened the doors of this serene West Sussex Elizabethan house over 40 years ago. It is scarcely surprising that in that time he and his...
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Hotel Artus
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The Hotel Inspector
Trendy hotels, however small, don't always make charming ones; character is often obliterated by the unrelenting quest to be hip, and what seems at first stylishly minimalist turns out to be sterile and dull. The Hotel Artus, however, which has...
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Pensione Accademia
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The Hotel Inspector
Still one of the best loved hotels in Venice, the Pensione Accademia continues to exert its considerable charm on a stream of contented guests. Despite recent modernisations such as sliding front doors and air conditioning, both the hotel and its...
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Bastide St Mathieu
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The Hotel Inspector
A sophisticated retreat in foothills outside Grasse, the 18th-century Bastide Saint Mathieu is the pet project of professional hoteliers, Inge and Arie van Osch. They have lavished love and care on its conversion, at pains to find just the right...
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The Rockwell
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The Hotel Inspector
We must declare an interest: one of the backers of The Rockwell, a new London hotel opened in 2006, is architect Michael Squire, neighbour and sailing cronie of the guide's publisher. How to write about it without bias? As we never stop reminding...