EARLY BIRD SWEET DEALS
Can you feel the holiday travel bug buzzing round your ear? Annoyingly pleasant isn’t it? To add fuel to your burning fire, our mates Mr & Mrs Smith will now entice you with some of their global hotels that will quench your thirst for a holiday resolution. And to make the deal even more sugary, they have talked the hotels into reducing the price by 25% if you book in January! So, trust us when we say, it helps when you can see the rooms with the views!
Hacienda San Jose, Yucatan, Mexico
Ensconced in a gorgeously gardened pocket of jungle, Hacienda San Jose is one of the Yucatan Peninsula’s best-kept secrets. Rescued from ruin and rebuilt with relaxation in mind, its 15 cream-and-terracotta coloured rooms are ideal rest-stops for expeditions to the capital city of Mérida, the ‘yellow city’ of Izamal, and ancient city and new wonder of the world, Chichen Itza.
Style Secret garden estate
Setting Jungly heart of Yucatan
Memmo Baleeira, Sagres, Portugal
Built in the Sixties, Memmo Baleeira hotel has kept its swinging seaside perch and whitewashed exterior, and added breezy coastal cool to its interiors.
Style White and bright
Setting Sunkissed Algarve shore
Casa Angelina, Amalfi Coast, Italy
It’s hard to imagine a more majestic location than perched on the Amalfi coastal cliffs, between the green mountains and the deep blue sea – from the rooftop terrace of Casa Angelina, the ocean view spreads out before you like an azure blanket, disturbed only by the island bumps of Capri and Li Galli and the rocky toe of Italy stretching into the horizon. Every fixture, fitting and furnishing gleams brilliant white, solely offset by the wild and whimsical colours of the Murano glass sculptures dotted around the communal areas.
Style Modern Med minimalism
Setting Rugged Amalfi cliff side
Maçakizi, Bodrum Peninsula, Turkey
Maçakizi’s pale, powder-white rooms aim to calm: outside, beautiful people chatter by the bar and stretch out on the decks, drawn here by the shimmering Aegean, top-notch restaurant and gorgeous, stone-studded gardens.
Style Decks on the beach
Setting Beside the bougainvillea
Puro Hotel, Mallorca Islands, Spain
Palma has gone through a renaissance, and emblematic of those changes is Puro Hotel. Converted from a 14th-century palace hotel, its simple stone exterior has hardly changed over the centuries. Step inside and it’s a different story. Puro has 51 rooms, most of them overlooking the central courtyard of natural white stone decorated with palms and fountains. There is a sensation of retreat from the sun-baked streets and discovery of the calm, oasis-like interior.
Style Arabian arts
Setting Mallorcan metropolis
