Portugal

Where to go on holiday in 2025

Whether your holiday planning is already well underway, or you’re still searching for inspiration, we’ve got the answers for every ‘right’ direction — after polling our SLH Club Members for

13 January 2025

In with the new: 8 boutique hotels for your 2025 wish list

The new year brings a renewed sense of adventure, with fresh hotels to check into and wish-list-topping destinations to discover. Our latest additions will have you looking (and bookmarking) ahead

10 January 2025

The ultimate Porto city guide

Built upon the banks of the River Douro and framed by Gustave Eiffel’s double-decker iron bridge, this hilly city with its colourful riverside promenade, winding cobbled streets and baroque churches

27 November 2024

Kyoto

The cities our INVITED Members would most like to visit this year

Your 2024 city break wish-list revealed… We recently asked our INVITED community for their most coveted destinations for 2024 – and the results are in. Stylish urbanites mostly seem to

4 January 2024

Hotel das Amoreiras

Independent Minds: Pedro Oliveira & Alicia Valero, Hotel das Amoreiras

Lisbon’s most restful retreat has an urban heart with country house soul Husband-and-wife team Pedro and Alicia are first and foremost aesthetes, who find joy in beautiful moments and beautiful

25 October 2023

Minois

6 luxury hotels in Europe to consider for an alternative honeymoon

Maldives and Caribbean, begone. It’s time to get more inventive for those planning a honeymoon escape abroad, and perhaps consider destinations that might be closer to home. Romantic retreats for

10 October 2023

La Reserve Bali

In with the new: 3 boutique hotels to inspire your next holiday

When summer comes to an end, the transitional months can be a tricky time for holiday planners. To see you through autumn (and into winter sun season), we’ve rounded up

20 September 2023

Can Ferrereta

10 hotel Instagram accounts we’re obsessed with

These are the hotel Instagram accounts you should be following, according to travel writer India Dowley If you’re anything like us, when you’re not travelling, you’re thinking about your next

15 September 2023

Lisbon

How to spend a weekend in Lisbon

A quick-hit guide to Portugal’s most popular city break, with insider recommendations from hotel aesthete and food-lover, Gina Jackson. Photographs by Gina Jackson Friday 4pm After landing in Lisbon, check into The Vintage,

12 September 2023

Morocco

Where is hot in September and October? 10 sun-drenched destinations

Our top 10 shoulder season hotspots to book now Following the August rush come the quieter months of September and October, when the days are still long, the temperatures high,

7 July 2023