Contributing Editor
Inès contributes long-form features on suites, spas and the evolving language of modern luxury. She brings a design-led eye to the Journal, with a particular focus on Europe and the Indian Ocean.
Inspiration
The railway and the grand hotel grew up together, and the partnership still works. These are the European rail journeys where the travelling is as memorable as the destination.
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Suite Reviews
The world's most ambitious hotel suites have become laboratories for the future of luxury — private spas, residential scale and views engineered like artworks.
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Wellness
Some of Europe's greatest hotels stand where they do for one reason: the water beneath them. A guide to the thermal-spring grandes dames and their living rituals.
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Rankings
The airport hotel has quietly become a category worth choosing rather than enduring. These are the properties that turn a connection into a pleasure — ranked.
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Inspiration
Cloisters built for silence turn out to be perfectly engineered for rest. How centuries-old religious houses became some of the world's most affecting places to stay.
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Family Travel
Increasingly it is grandparents who book the trip, set the tone and pick up the bill. How the skip-generation and grandparent-hosted holiday works best — for all three generations.
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Food & Dining
From the Sachertorte to the modern Paris palace, pâtisserie has become the discipline where great hotels declare their standards. Inside the rise of the hotel pastry programme.
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Family Travel
Luxury travel with children no longer means compromise. These resorts are renowned for keeping parents and kids equally — and separately — delighted.
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Food & Dining
Once an amenity for tired arrivals, the hotel dining room now anchors entire trips. Inside the quiet revolution that made hotels the new capitals of fine dining.
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Wellness
Diagnostics before dinner, consultants alongside concierges — how Europe's clinical retreats and longevity hotels turned medical rigour into the new face of luxury wellness.
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Travel News
Diagnostics suites beside the spa, doctors on the resort payroll and retreats measured in biomarkers — how longevity became the organising idea of high-end wellness travel.
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Wellness
Long before wellness became an industry, the Alps were where Europe went to recover. A look at how altitude, water and tradition shaped the mountain spa — and where it excels today.
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Rankings
From rooftop infinity edges to lakeside terraces, these are the hotel pools consistently celebrated as the world's most beautiful — and the properties behind them.
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Suite Reviews
Overlooking Place Vendôme, the Ritz Paris's Suite Impériale distils two centuries of French decorative art into a single apartment. We examine what makes it the city's definitive grand suite.
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Wellness
Blackout engineering, circadian lighting and retreats built entirely around rest — why the world's finest hotels are competing on the quality of your night.
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Suite Reviews
In the former mansion of Napoleon's grand-nephew, the flagship suite holds what many consider the finest private view in Paris. We profile the rooms where imperial history meets the Iron Lady head-on.
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Food & Dining
The most intimate format in world gastronomy has found a natural home inside the grand hotel. How the omakase counter migrated from Tokyo's basements to the world's finest houses.
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Family Travel
The toddler years need not mean a travel hiatus. How the best hotels accommodate their smallest guests — and how parents can stack the odds in everyone's favour.
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Wellness
Baden-Baden, Karlovy Vary and Évian built Europe's original wellness culture. A new generation of travellers is rediscovering the thermal towns — on their own terms.
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Destination Guides
Pale towers of rock, Alpine-Italian food culture and valleys that reward both skiers and hikers — a guide to planning a Dolomites escape in either season.
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Travel News
Logos are shrinking, lobbies are hushing and the most expensive rooms increasingly refuse to look expensive. Inside hospitality's decisive shift towards understatement.
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Wellness
Luxury's newest scarcity is neither space nor service but silence. Why the world's most connected travellers are paying handsomely to surrender their phones — and their voices.
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Destination Guides
Between the Riviera's glamour and the lavender-field clichés lies the real Provence — market towns, vineyard valleys and some of France's most rewarding slow travel.
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Food & Dining
The most coveted seat in the modern grand hotel is no longer in the dining room but inside the kitchen itself. How the chef's table became luxury dining's most intimate ritual.
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Suite Reviews
Royal Mansour is a hotel built as a medina of private riads — and at its heart stands the Grand Riad, a three-storey residence with its own pool, spa and garden. We profile Morocco's most extraordinary suite.
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Suite Reviews
The Savoy's Royal Suite occupies the hotel's most coveted stretch of Thames frontage. We spent a night there to see whether London's most storied address still earns its reputation at the very top.
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Food & Dining
Once a buffet to be endured, hotel breakfast has become the sternest test of a property's kitchen, sourcing and soul. Why the morning table now decides where discerning travellers stay.
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