15th March 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Luxury Travel Tips: How to Use TripAdvisor for the Luxury Traveller

Love it or hate it, TripAdvisor can be an incredible useful tool when planning your travel. As a forum made up of user-generated content it is of course incredibly subjective and many people discount it as useless. Personally, I think TripAdvisor shouldn’t be so easily disregarded but it should be read in certain way to… Read more »

10th January 2018 | Everyday Luxury Travel General Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Five Ways to Relinquish Control when you’re a Controlling Travel Planner

It’s been well documented on this blog that I have a type A personality meaning I’m highly organised, an over-planner, meticulous with sticking to deadlines, always punctual but often highly stressed. Mr Silver is the relaxed, laid back and patient type B counterpart to my overly controlling personality. Generally this means we complement each other… Read more »

17th November 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips

Luxury Travel Tips: How to Choose the Perfect Luxury Hotel for You

Choosing a hotel may not be of the utmost importance to everyone but for me the right accommodation can really make or break as holiday. Of course your hotel priorities will be different depending on the destination but in this post I aim to give you some overall guidelines to select your hotel and avoid… Read more »

16th May 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips

Luxury Travel Tips: How to Plan the Perfect Honeymoon

It’s undoubtably going to be the biggest, most exciting (and most expensive) holiday of your life. Everyone want’s their honeymoon to be absolutely perfect and this post I want to help you guarantee that it is!! Here are my top tips to plan the perfect honeymoon. Budget When planning your wedding I think it’s important… Read more »

1st March 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK Top Tens Luxury Travel Tips

Top Ten London Boutique Hotels

I’ve always had a thing for boutique hotels, you know those special places, small but full of character. They’re often in secret corners hidden away, and not a lot of people know about them…but that just makes them even better. In this post I thought I’d tell you about my favourite of these London hidden… Read more »

24th February 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel Europe Australasia North America Africa Top Tens Luxury Travel Tips

Ten of The World’s Best Wine Regions

Mr S and I absolutely love incorporating wine tasting or visiting a vineyard during a trip. Personally I love exploring the cellars or strolling through beautiful vineyards before returning to the house to sample some of their delicious wines along with a cheese plate and a view of the scenery. Now full disclosure, I’m no… Read more »

1st February 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips Personal

The Ten Commandments of Travel Blogging

We always see those oh-so-perfect colour co-ordinated Instagram feeds, the life of a travel blogger always seems so ideal. But things can sometimes go so horribly wrong…follow my ten commandments of travel blogging to avoid sticky situations… 1. Thou Shall Not Work with Animals or Children… And if you do, never get in the way of… Read more »

13th January 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Lessons Learnt From Losing My Luggage

As soon as our plane touched down in Kenya I turned my phone off from flight mode, eager to quench my social media addiction and check my emails. But immediately my excitement about arriving in Nairobi we obstructed…though we’d made it safely to our destination, my luggage had not and it was still in London…… Read more »

9th January 2017 | Everyday Luxury Travel Luxury Travel Tips

Luxury Travel Tips: Where to Go, And When

Want to avoid the rainy season and get some sun? Make sure you’re missing the crowds or long queues? Or even aiming to go off-season to take advantage of lower prices, cooler weather or the school holidays influx. Check out my ultimate guide of where to go, and when. January – Australia I think we’re… Read more »

1st November 2016 | Everyday Luxury Travel Top Tens Luxury Travel Tips Personal

Five Things That Make the Perfect Luxury Hotel

Everyone has a different idea of luxury but for me it’s not necessarily marble bathrooms, infinity pools and utterly polished service. Here are my five things that make the perfect luxury hotel. 1. A Sense of Place My favourite luxury hotels allow you absorb the culture and feeling of the place without even leaving the… Read more »