Inspiring Travel Writing from Isabel Clift
Isabel joined the TI team in August 2008 as an editorial assistant, shortly after graduating from the University of Kent. Since then, she's covered TI hotels from Madrid to New York via Tetbury and developed an insurmountable addiction to tea. Follow her travel-related natterings on Twitter: @Isabel_Clift
Articles by Isabel Clift
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Where to Stay in Bali
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Isabel Clift
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Indonesia
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Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands
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Bali
It’s tricky trying to work out where to stay in Bali with so many sumptuous places on offer. Our top five picks for luxury hotels in Bali should make life easier; whether you’re after peaceful unspoiled beaches, traditional spa treatments, your own...
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Movie Hotels: Favourite Stays of the Stars of Screen and Stage
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Isabel Clift
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United States
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New York State
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New York
If there's one place that TI's luxury hotels truly belong, it's laid out in all their glory on the big screen. Whether they've joined the ranks of famous movie hotels by stealing a scene or two, been used for clandestine trysts (and...
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Soldes en Paris: Hitting the Sales in Paris
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Isabel Clift
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
Fact: the fashion sales in Paris are like nowhere else on earth. The city's biannual-only official sales ('soldes') make a real push to put the magic and spectacle back in to shopping and shake off the drudgery of cut prices online and year-round...
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Six of the Best Original Spa Destinations
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Isabel Clift
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France
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French Alps
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Evian Les Bains
Don't want to go to a boring modern spa complex for your 2010 detox? Get your treatments at one of these six hotels - from atmospheric old ryokans in Japan to lavish grand dames in Evian - in a selection of original spa destinations instead......
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New York Art Hotels: Where to Stay for the Armory Show
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Isabel Clift
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United States
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New York State
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New York
Travel Intelligence scouts out the four best New York art hotels to inspire budding buyers heading to art-lovers' paradise the Armory Show... Chambers A veritable feast for the eyes, Chambers should be any art lover’s first port of call in...
Reviews by Isabel Clift
Metropolitan Hotel | Isabel CliftThe Metropolitan is the fashionable little sister of London's luxury hotel clan. Though it pulls all the right moves to blend in with the established crowd (smart Park Lane address, monolithic spaces, discerning clientele), it still remains the...-
Brown's
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Isabel Clift
Brown's is a distinctly British hotel in the heart of Mayfair. Converted from eleven Georgian town houses, it's been popular with London's elite since it opened as the city's first ever luxury hotel in 1837. This five star hotel has been transformed...
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Knightsbridge Hotel
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Isabel Clift
One of the smaller hotels in Kit Kemp's Firmdale family, Knightsbridge Hotel is a smart townhouse just around the corner from Harrods. The design references English genteel living, with a big dose of Kemp mischief: the Drawing Room is a modern...
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Draycott
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Isabel Clift
A stately triple townhouse conversion just off Sloane Square, The Draycott offers heritage-inspired accommodation in a plum Chelsea postcode. Attractive and polite rather than ostentatious, the hotel treats families in particular with real care....
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Radisson Edwardian Leicester Square
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Isabel Clift
The Radisson Edwardian Leicester Square is little sister to the neighbouring Radisson Hampshire. Funkier and more intimate, with a smaller-scale business focus, it's a clever pick for sleek style in a central locale. White-on-cream interiors are...