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  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Greener getaways: The Loch & The Tyne in Old Windsor, Berkshire

    Super-chef Adam Handling perfectly marries sustainability and luxury at his first venture outside London: a country inn offering five-star food and gorgeous guest rooms

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Pride and property: a very literary stay in central London

    A truth universally acknowledged: the Marylebone townhouse of Jane Austen’s brother Henry — restored to its Regency glamour and discreetly cushioned with 21st-century comforts — makes for an exquisite getaway

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Pillow talk: the best ‘sleep programmes’ in London’s top hotels

    How one long-suffering insomniac’s quest for shut-eye led to pillow menus, temperature-controlled mattresses and a night inside an Antony Gormley sculpture

  • Monday, 15 November, 2021
    Travel
    Beaverbrook Town House and the story of Sloane Street

    A glamorous new hotel is part of a bid to reanimate one of London’s best-known thoroughfares

  • Sunday, 26 September, 2021
    Travelista
    Four new hotels for a great city break

    Check in to LA, London, Paris and Boston

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Wilde at heart: a sybaritic 24-hour staycation in Mayfair, London

    The opening of an Oscar Wilde-inspired hotel prompted an FT writer to indulge in a (brief) home-city holiday — in the aesthete’s mecca that is the capital’s most elegant district

  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    FT SeriesThe transformative power of water
    Laps of luxury: London’s best (and longest) hotel pools

    Whether you want to power along or be pampered, here’s where to get in the swim

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s loveliest small hotels: FT readers’ top tips

    We asked you for your favourite boutique places to stay in the UK capital. Your picks offer great British design, excellent service and perfect locations

  • Monday, 31 May, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Tales of the riverbank: a London staycation offers different perspectives of the Thames

    A city break in a historic houseboat on the water and a stay in a luxurious eyrie in the sky showcase the best of Tower Bridge and its environs

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top

    In this series from FT Globetrotter, leaders across a range of industries, from food to finance to fashion, share guides to their cities, with top spots to eat and drink, exercise, explore — and more

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    HTSI
    The man behind the most spectacular makeover in Claridge’s history

    The landmark Mayfair hotel has dug 33m beneath Brook Street to create the most glamorous basement extension in the world, and added a rooftop supersuite for good measure. Paddy McKillen, who is in charge of the development, explains how they did it

  • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    Tell us about your favourite small hotel

    We’re looking for the best boutique hotels in the great cities we cover. Share your tip and be a part of our exclusive FT Globetrotter community

  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    London with the FT

    Where to squeeze in a spin class, proper breakfasts for protein fiends, and more

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    FT Globetrotter
    Brutal luxury: London’s new Standard hotel

    Upmarket hoteliers are finding that concrete is making a comeback

  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
    FT Globetrotter
    My night as an oligarch, by Lucy Kellaway

    At £42,000, the Mandarin Oriental’s new penthouse is London’s most expensive hotel suite — but is it worth it?

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
    FT Globetrotter
    The Cadogan Hotel: Oscar Wilde’s Chelsea haunt reborn

    Belmond has transformed the London landmark with tributes to its famous 19th-century guest

  • Saturday, 12 May, 2018
    FT Globetrotter
    Jeremy Paxman on how Soho House transformed Television Centre

    The former ‘Newsnight’ presenter returns to the BBC to check in to the just-opened White City House hotel

  • Friday, 1 December, 2017
    FT Globetrotter
    The hotel putting the swing back into Bloomsbury

    Edwin Lutyens’ building has been relaunched with a glamorous — and highly Instagrammable — new look

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
    FT Globetrotter
    Beaverbrook: a hotel fit for a press baron, 30 minutes from London

    Henry Mance checks in to the home of former Daily Express owner Lord Beaverbrook

  • Friday, 3 February, 2017
    FT Globetrotter
    Britannia’s new wave: Ten Trinity Square reinvents itself as a luxury hotel

    Once the beating heart of the nation’s trading empire, the Port of London Authority’s grand headquarters has emerged from a six-year renovation

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