HOTELS

Perchance to dream

In full Bloomsday

"Approaching Dublin with Ulysses in mind, if not in hand, is like wearing a set of bifocals that fractures the city into complementary parallels: so much has changed a century later, and so much seems unchanged"

Review: Grand Hotel Central, Barcelona

by Monisha Rajesh

"I spent all night sweating in a club called El Coño de Tu Prima and passed out at 5am in a dorm echoing with drunken screams from Las Ramblas"

Jesus moment | Park Hyatt Hyderabad

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"City hotels that become miniature cities themselves are my Umberto Eco chambers of delight"

100 years of La Mamounia

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"The whole place thrums in a kind of postcoital way"

Too loud down under | Ace Hotel Sydney

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"I saw one guest fall down them and another trip up them in a few minutes: not the best first impression"

The future’s so bright | Karim Rashid’s Athenian time warp

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

Karim Rashid’s first hotel project, Semiramis, opened in Athens in 2004. It looks older – yet is all the bolder for it

Breakfast epiphanies | Brunch at The Four Seasons, Bengaluru

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"For me it’s all about eating as much Indian food as possible"

After hours | Review: 25hours Hotel Indre By, Copenhagen

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Once you’ve got your key for your room, you take the lift upstairs and realise quickly that this is a hotel that could compete with The Overlook for scale and bewildering hallways"

The Catalan tapes | Almanac Barcelona

by Simon Gage

"So I got liver! Such a treat for a vegan!"

Cooking the history books | El Llorenç Parc de la Mar, Palma

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"This is a restaurant where tradition is (forgive me) baked in"

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