Inspiring Travel Writing from Jamie Dunford Wood: Page 7 of 24
Articles by Jamie Dunford Wood: Page 7 of 24
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Hotel Eden du Lac
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Jamie Dunford Wood
Unlike many of the other Montreux hotels, the Eden is right on the lakeside, with no roads to distract, and its lake views are unimpaired. Moreover unlike the Montreux Palace the windows are generous, and open up onto wide balconies. However, the...
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The J and J
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Florence
This extraordinary convent conversion offers guests perhaps the most spacious rooms in Florence - you could hold a cocktail party for 100 in some of them. The hotel retains original plaster work, frescos, antique wooden doors and vaulted ceilings,...
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Hotel Esmeralda
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
The one star Esmeralda is the perfect manifestation of what we all dream a Paris garret hotel to be, its one failing is this respect being the replacement of the chain-smoking Parisian ogre with a soft-spoken Spaniard behind the desk. The first...
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Grand Hotel Jeanne D’Arc
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
There is certainly nothing ‘grand’ about the Jeanne d’Arc, but this simple hotel so beloved of the guidebooks has two major factors going for it. First, the location, in the heart of the Marais, and just around the corner from the charming Place du...
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Hotel Ala
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
Turned away by the Gritti, or shocked by the price, you could do worse than check in to the hotel opposite, on the other side of the square. The Ala is the flagship hotel of the Salmaso family, who also have the endlessly popular Pensione Accademia...
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Pension Nossek
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Austria
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Vienna
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Vienna
The Pension Nossek has been recommended by scores of guides, and for good reason - it’s central, quiet, charming and affordable, all qualities which are near impossible to find grouped together in a major European city. The sign on the grand...
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Pension Pertschy
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Austria
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Vienna
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Vienna
The Pension Pertschy grows on you. At first glance it has a lot to put you off – if the street entrance and scruffy single lift have not done it, the décor may appall you, with grandma’s textured wallpaper, dowdy furnishings and a salmon pink –...
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Hotel Schloss Monchstein
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Austria
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Upper Austria
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Salzburg
This heavily marketed hotel gets on to you as soon as you pick up the telephone, a recorded message offering you wedding facilities in the castle chapel. Position-wise, the hotel is wonderful, with views over the town from the Monchsberg, and with...
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Hotel Scribe
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
Rather bizarrely decorated hotel - all praise to Sofitel - which feels a bit like a grand brothel downstairs, which may be appropriate given its history as the wartime headquarters of the allies in Paris. Marble paint-effect plaster columns and...
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Hotel Ambassador
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Austria
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Vienna
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Vienna
Century old hotel on the Karntnerstrasse and backing onto the Habsburg crypt, the Ambassador is a medium sized (86 rooms) but well run hotel with no pretensions. The recently renovated guest rooms are large with stucco-ed ceilings, parquet floors,...
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