In the city of canals comes a hotel that stands out even among the infamous Canal Houses and artist stop-ins.
Here’s why Volkshotel does Amsterdam justice in the spirit of its reputation as a culture and design destination, AND as the party stop-in of The Netherlands….
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Travel Europe (Review): 25Hours Hotel Bikini Berlin
Chart a path across Europe with one hotel brand bringing funk to over 10 destinations – Case in Point: 25Hours Hotel Bikini Berlin – The best of new & old world Berlin perfectly encapsulated here…
Top 5 Stylish Safe Stays in The Cape: A 2022 Hotel Guide
Here’s why these Cape hotel picks rank in the hospitality Top 5, for one of Africa’s finest travel destinations…
Welcome to the 2022 Stylish Safe Stay Shortlist!
5 Hotel Tips Leading to Traveller Bookings & Better Reviews
Find out how some travellers make hotel booking decisions, what triggers wanderlust, and how hospitality can improve to get even better reviews and heaps of bookings…
Stylish Safe Stay: Latitude Aparthotel
Get your dose of sunshine from the Rooftop or balconies, at Latitude Hotel – the stylish Cape Aparthotel perfect for picturesque vistas, Co-Working, Sundowners, parking and even Promenading…
Stylish Safe Stay: Pearl Bay Villa, by Beach House Collection
Find out more about how the ocean villa that Beach House Collection offers up to you, is a masterful travel temptation complete with cinematic cosy style, lesser-travelled coastal vistas, and a unique opportunity to sate your wanderlust with luxury African hospitality…
Hotel Vs. Aparthotel: The Halyard Apartments Makes The Case
If you’re weighing up your next trips accommodation, consider The Halyard Apartments case for the merits of Aparthotels Vs. Hotels or even AirBnBs…
Culinary Quest: To Unconventional Breakfasts
What’s the most interesting breakfast you’ve ever had?
I’m fascinated by how breakfast menus around the world now have genre-bending range beyond the eggcellent Full English Breakfast.
Find out how things have changed…
Travel Essentials: The Dire State of The Hotel Coffee Station
Some Travel Essentials aren’t the ones you pack, but the ones you arrive to.
Read on as I plead my case for refreshing the hotel Tea & Coffee Station…
Stylish Safe Stay: Bridgewater Apartments
Century City Hotels newest stop-in brings contemporary aparthotel conveniences to business travellers and leisure travellers alike.
Check out whether Bridgewater Apartment’s hospitality is a good fit for your travel needs, now…
Stylish Safe Stay: Century City Hotel Bridgewater
Traditional hotel hospitality and contemporary conveniences converge at Century City Hotels newest stop-in.
Check out whether you can rest easy at Bridgewater – whether a Digital Nomad, family or another welcome traveller…
Money-Saving Travel Essentials: 12 Random Traveller Tips & Smart Hacks
From flight pricing to motion sickness, on-the-go photoshoots, to airport and city navigation hacks, this is the ultimate traveller tip list for your 2022 trips.
Drop a comment if you have any questions beyond these budget-friendly hacks…
Stylish Safe Stay: The Winchester Hotel
The Winchester Hotel, newly reopened and already popular among curious foodies, business pods, brunch hoards & staycation travellers alike, brings with it a medley of good food, better design, and even greater hospitality.
Here’s why this seaside Cape hotel is this seasons blooming offering, for locals and tourists beyond…
Stylish Safe Stay: The Halyard Apartments
Sweet digs, simple treats, and sensational sleep – here’s how the relatively new kid on the Cape hospitality block, The Halyard, has an apartment experience I’ve reviewed as a stylish safe staycation hotel choice, which you could book into now, on AirBnB!
Decadent Threads: Bougie by Daylight
For lack of recent fashion week moments, I reminisce and appreciate styling the wearable art fashion house ERRE makes – this time, an evening gown to elevate even your daytime streetstyle, or just High Tea…
Stylish Safe Stay: Hôtel du Parc
Find out whether Hôtel du Parc is worth booking into for your next Staycation, as I review another Cape hotel for my Stylish Safe Stay travel series.
Here’s your local travel insider’s look on this boutique hotels quality of sleep, style, safety, and more…
Decadent Threads: Restyling Quality like ERRE
Getting ambitious with styling as I play with ERRE designs.
Discover ways to rework your existing wardrobe items, and why this fashion house deserves all the praise…
Travel Essentials: White Sneakers & PUMA Styling for Comfort
Sneakers are a travel favourite for many, and the reasons why a white pair can be beneficial, are plenty!
Find out which PUMA takkies I favour for travel comfort, style, hygiene, and going the distance…
Stylish Safe Stay: Old Foundry Hotel
The hotels under Ideas Cartel can sometimes come off as contrived, but they’re also fun and not at all off-putting.
The Old Foundry finished my trilogy of this hospitality brand, and this is everything you need to know about the experience, foodie favourites, travel perks, value for money, and style…
Stylish Safe Stay: The Onyx Hotel
As the winter season enters the Cape, I look at the perks of a Winter Staycation in the heart of the Mother City – from signature cocktails, to tours into the Winelands.
This is another Stylish Safe Stay to try…
Wanderlust: Plush Hotel Beds & Crisp Linens
Reminiscing on the hotel beds I’ve loved before, the wonders of crisp white linens, and ruminating on tourism and local travel culture in the age of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Catch up on hotels, hospitality, and a little bit of hope – from London to New York, Cape Town, to the South of France…
Culinary Quest: Brunch Cafe by Ideas Cartel
With Brunch Cafe, membership club Ideas Cartel offers up another space that fits right in with Cape Town’s inner city foodie culture and cosmopolitan lifestyle ethos.
Find your perfect plate pick for brunch, now…
Decadent Threads: Ritzy PINK Comforts
I’m thinking on the long weekend ahead, and styling that’s going to keep me chic and comfortable.
Here are my travel and style musings on ritzy pink comforts by elite South African fashion designer favourites of mine…
Wanderlust: The Pools & Waters I’d like to Revisit
Wanderlust, travel nostalgia, and an appreciation for hospitality amenities & facilities, comes together in this piece on pools, hot tubs, beaches, and more, that this Travel Writer would revisit (or try and journey to), from the South of France, to Johannesburg, USA to the Cape…