We could all make our own list. But here’s an interesting take from the on-line hotel comparison site www.trivago.co.uk. According to Trivago, they all offer a ’special atmosphere and have very good reviews from travellers:’
1. Santini Residence, Prague
The elegant Santini Residence offers nine spacious suites, where couples can enjoy hours of leisure time together. Some [...]
The joys of convalescence: there comes a time during convalescence when you start to enjoy the process of recovery; obligations have been lifted for a while; you are freed from deadlines; you are fussed over; the work ethic has been suspended; guilt is assuaged; you are free to roam and experiment. And be creative. It [...]
Recruit a worldwide team of 200 peripatetic celebrities, critics, food writers, hoteliers, restaurateurs and assorted entrepreneurs and ask them to report on what they consider to be the best in travel: This is the formula for the fifth edition of Courvoisier’s “The Book of the Best,” published this month in London (Vermilion/Random House, £12.99). It [...]
About 100 years ago, my agent, Pat Lomax, was quite interested in my idea for a cook book: ‘food and the single man.’
The moment has long passed. But having revisited my notes, I am intrigued once more. so here are my:
NOTES IN PROGRESS
Food and the single man: recipes for survival (and seduction)
Rack of lamb:
Spike a small carre [...]
Beatrice Tollman, President and Founder of the Red Carnation Hotel Collection, a luxury collection of five and four-star family run boutique properties, has recently published a cookbook that is her memoir of “A Life in Food”, all proceeds of which will be going to her two favorite UK charities, the Starlight Children’s Foundation and The [...]
Where on earth will it end? Is a la carte pricing just the flavor of the month or the magic bullet of the decade? Or are the so-called ‘legacy’ carriers simply grasping at straws?
I was strutting my usual stuff at an ‘a la carte airline pricing’ conference the other day – that the airlines [...]
The Oyster Box: The re-birth of a legend
It’s not every day that legends are made (let alone re-born) – even in the hotel business! So the other day this brief, almost laconic item rose above the usual clutter:
‘Legendary hotel to reopen
Umhlanga Rocks, Durban Kwa-Zulu, Natal, South Africa
‘The Oyster Box, part of the Red [...]
Just to let everyone know that I’m doing more ‘voice’ work with podcasts and recorded interviews. And here’s a promotion I have been putting out. I have purchased the domain name Voicesetcetera.com which I hope to lionk up with Rogerand Randy.com.
I’ll keep you posted.
Roger Collis – Business travel guru; journalist, author, veteran corporate infighter; broadcaster; and [...]
Ryanair, the Irish bargain-basement airline, which excels only in deepening the no-frills experience, is now claiming to be ‘the world’s favorite airline’ – an appellation which for years was the proud strapline for British Airways. Ryanair claims to have carried twice the number of passengers than BA during the month of June.
Oh, how the [...]
Congratulations to Red Carnation Hotels (www.redcarnationhotels.com) for winning the ‘video category’ of the ‘2009 Travelmole UK web awards 2009’ with its ‘video tour’ of the Egerton House Hotel in London. You can view the 3-minute video (narrated by Roger Collis) at http://www.egertonhousehotel.com/your-stay/egerton-video-tour or winners of all 15 award categories at http://www.travelmole.com/news.php