HOTELS

Perchance to dream

It’s a doggy dog world

Woman's best friend isn't always a welcome guest. A ban on dogs in hotels can be a bigger annoyance to dog lovers than paying for wifi (is anyone really still doing that?). Elisa Anniss goes to Dartmoor and finds some canine-friendly luxury

Great Northern Hotel

by Douglas Blyde

The historic Gothic fantasia of the reopened St. Pancras Hotel now has some not-so-new competition in the form of Victorian London's original railway hotel

Marrakech | Ramadan, riads and royal palaces

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"No one in their right mind goes to Marrakech in midsummer"

Why you need your own castle in the Highlands

by Derek Guthrie

An Englishman's home is his castle, but a Scotsman's castle is his home. Derek Guthrie finds just the thing

Review: Priory Bay Hotel, Isle of Wight

by Rebecca Fortey and Sebastian Roach

"It is with great anticipation that I board the ferry at Lymington and travel back to the 1950s – to a place where the houses seem built for smaller folk, the Union flag is more conspicuous, and they still have high streets with butchers and bakers and pork-pie makers"

Review: Canal House, Amsterdam

by Jack Hanley

"There’s a slight fetish feel in the use of black elasticated bandaging around the dining chairs – reminiscent of Margiela perhaps, but dark"

Review: Armani Hotel Dubai

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"The presence of the Armani Hotel in Dubai reinforces the idea that everything is available for a price: in a city that has no taste of its own, soft and sculptural amber lighting and laser cut leather are available wholesale"

Sleep disorder therapy | A thoroughly modern spa treatment

by Sudi Pigott

"Doctor Corradin suggests I need to build on what the Chinese call 'zhi' – will and determination. As he puts it, I need to 'become my own best friend.' I emerge tearful"

Shangri-La Hotel, Paris

by Civilian Paris

A hotel inside an actual palace, with France's only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant. Mixing 19th century Parisian grandeur with Asian luxury motifs, the Shangri-La might be the best luxury hotel in Paris

Home exchanges with pools

by Civilian London

They're rare in European capitals, but we are entranced by the exotic allure of infinity pools: otherworldly features on the edge of disarming vistas. With that in mind, we're particularly drawn to the idea of a home exchange with a pool

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