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F Scott Fitzgerald’s favourite hotels: party like it’s 1929

To get a sense of the places that inspired the Great Gatsby and F Scott Fitzgerald’s decadent lifestyle, visit the hotels in the US and Europe he spent much of his life in More jazz-age glamour: the ideal speakeasy bars in New York F Scott Fitzgerald’s short life was restless. He never set down roots, instead drifting from glittering 1920s New York and France to Switzerland and the American south in the 30s, with many waypoints in between. Hotels were a ...

Greeks asked to welcome tourists who are bound for nation in record numbers

Antonis Samaras, the prime minister, appeals to compatriots to put on ideal face as 17 million foreigners head to Greece The Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, issued an uncommon appeal on Tuesday, asking his compatriots to put on their ideal face as the debt-choked country prepares to accept 17 million tourists – an all-time record. Although mired in its worst economic crisis in modern times, Greece is braced for a surge in arrivals with visitors from Russia, Germany and Britain ...

Sonia, the boat by the sea, Cardigan Bay: self-catering review

Though the idea of staying in an old boat in a Welsh field seems mad, our writer is captivated It’s a wild and windy night when we bump down the final section of the track to Morfa Isaf and fall from the automobile in an exhausted heap. We’ve driven through rain, wind, and fog over mountains to the very edge of Wales and have finally reached our destination: a field. What’s more, it’s a dark, unlit field. Luckily, Mandy, the ...

The Salutation hotel and pub, Manchester: hotel review

This brilliant Salutation pub close to Manchester’s universities is let down by the hotel’s decidedly lacklustre rooms Call me fussy, but if there is one thing I do not want to do in a hotel, it’s make my own bed. But, here I am, sorting out the poppers on a duvet cover inexplicably left open, and just tucked under the mattress, like a sheet. In a small way – irritating because it is such a basic detail – that sums up ...

Top 10 budget hotels, hostels and B&Bs in Miami

Miami’s inexpensive places to stay include historic B&Bs downtown, South Beach’s art-deco boutique hotels and vintage motels in the MiMo district The New Yorker, a classic motel designed in 1953 and protected by the city’s Historic Preservation Board, could serve as the set for a Miami episode of Mad Men. A careful restoration in 2009 breathed new life into the 55-room property. Today, the historic boutique hotel is a stylish centrepiece of Miami’s Modern Architectural District (MiMo), also known as ...

Top 10 budget hotels, hostels and B&Bs in Miami

Miami’s inexpensive places to stay include historic B&Bs downtown, South Beach’s art-deco boutique hotels and vintage motels in the MiMo district The New Yorker, a classic motel designed in 1953 and protected by the city’s Historic Preservation Board, could serve as the set for a Miami episode of Mad Men. A careful restoration in 2009 breathed new life into the 55-room property. Today, the historic boutique hotel is a stylish centrepiece of Miami’s Modern Architectural District (MiMo), also known as ...

Travel tips: Kayak along the Connemara coast or stay at the high-end Shard hotel

New company Wilderness Ireland offers adventure, hotels spring up in London and the week’s ideal deals Take me there: Connemara, Ireland It’s a good time to… stay in London More inexpensive is the Nadler Soho (thenadler.com), slated to open on 1 June in the heart of Soho. It offers great-value rooms (some with terraced courtyards or views of Soho Square) with mini-kitchens. Rooms will begin from around £155 for a small double. Give me a break: The week’s ideal deals ...

Travel tips: Kayak along the Connemara coast or stay at the high-end Shard hotel

New company Wilderness Ireland offers adventure, hotels spring up in London and the week’s ideal deals Take me there: Connemara, Ireland It’s a good time to… stay in London More inexpensive is the Nadler Soho (thenadler.com), slated to open on 1 June in the heart of Soho. It offers great-value rooms (some with terraced courtyards or views of Soho Square) with mini-kitchens. Rooms will begin from around £155 for a small double. Give me a break: The week’s ideal deals ...

Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake

Amber Marks accompanied her father, Howard, on a return trip to Taiwan, and made a journey of her own to idyllic Sun Moon Lake in the centre of the island, where Chiang Kai-shek indulged his dreams of one day retaking mainland China “Why Taiwan?” friends had asked. They were clearly imagining a giant and monstrously productive factory. Few knew much about Taiwan, or had heard of either its former name, Formosa (“beautiful” in Portuguese), or its official post-war name, the ...

Travel tips: stay in a converted tobacco factory in Tuscany, or try camping the old fashioned way

A boutique hotel an hour from Florence, La Tabaccaia, has just opened, camping has a “new” concept, plus deals of the week Take me there: Castelfali, Tuscany A tobacco factory in a medieval Tuscan village has been given a new lease of life as a boutique hotel. Set on the Castelfalfi estate an hour from Florence, La Tabaccaia has been sensitively restored, retaining features such as exposed beams and intricate tiled ceilings. German tour operator TUI has converted the old village ...