Inspiring Travel Writing from Jamie Dunford Wood: Page 21 of 24
Reviews by Jamie Dunford Wood: Page 21 of 24
Orfila | Jamie Dunford WoodThe Orfila is a small palace/town house that's been tastefully converted into a small boutique hotel. It has basic amenities and a small staff, but the reception area is stuffed with real antiques, chipped by age, with paint-effect marblised walls...-
Grand Hotel Quisisana
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Jamie Dunford Wood
The Grand Hotel Quisisana is an old favourite of many people, a grand old hotel on this grand old island in the middle of the glitz and the glamour. And glamourous it undoubtedly is, as shipping magnates with deeply tanned wives mingle with...
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Palace Luzern
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Jamie Dunford Wood
As soon as you walk into this century-old hotel you cannot fail to be impressed by its elegance and sophistication. Quieter and less bustling than the National, not as overwhelmingly grand as the Schweizerhof, there is a cote d'azur feel here,...
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Le Grimaldi
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Jamie Dunford Wood
Le Grimaldi has become a fashionable ‘hideaway’ in the fashion magazines, who have pounced on it – this is a part of the world where there are slim pickings in the good value, character, hideaway department. In any other part of France, however, it...
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Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel
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Jamie Dunford Wood
The Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel by the port of Barcelona does not sound encouraging, and with 235 rooms you half expect a soulless conference centre. This is, however, Barcelona, and even conference centres are done with style. The Eurostars is a...
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Metropole Hotel
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Jamie Dunford Wood
This charming luxury hotel has a lot of history – Vivaldi composed his Four Seasons in the breakfast room (he was choirmaster in a neighbouring church), and babies were changed on the breakfast room table, as the place was once an orphanage....
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Le Meurice
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Jamie Dunford Wood
Le Meurice has one great, overwhelming advantage; it has a Rue de Rivoli address, and it also makes much of its heritage as a classic pre-war luxury hotel. Second home of Kings and Presidents, Hotel Meurice has a good line in Salvador Dali stories,...
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Hotel Montalembert
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Jamie Dunford Wood
The Montalembert was the first of the 'boutique' hotels in Paris and after its recent refurbishment is running once more alongside its imitators that had begun to overtake the original. The spirit remains the same but the décor is a seamless blend...
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Amanpuri
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Jamie Dunford Wood
Amanpuri in Phuket was opened in 1988 by famous hotelier Adrian Zecha, the first of his Amanresorts. The fact a real architect was involved (Ed Tuttle) gives you a clue as to what to expect from this resort - a designer resort par excellence,...
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Pensione Accademia
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Jamie Dunford Wood
The Pensione Accademia, a delightful rambling patrician 16th-century palace with its own docking point in Venice, is just a few steps from the Grand Canal. The hotel is owned and managed by the Salmaso family, who also have the Ala and the Do Pozzi...
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