The Library
How travel works: the planning, the timing and the small things that change a trip.
From the Journal
Subject to Availability
The hedge is the honest part. Certainty offered up front is usually
The First Twenty-Four Hours
A journey is judged on its first day, and the first day is almost
The Itinerary That Is Too Full
When a budget is generous, the trip rarely fails on quality. It
What the Second Trip Knows
The second journey is better than the first for reasons that have
Practical questions, answered
Can I use my points or card benefits? For flights, yes. Many households book long-haul flights on points, and that sits comfortably alongside everything else I arrange. Hotels are different. The benefits that come with booking through the practice apply to rooms booked through the network portal. A points stay, or a room booked through a card's own hotel programme, usually sits outside that. So for each hotel it is one route or the other, not both. If you hold a card with its own hotel programme, tell me in the first conversation and I will say which route gives you more at each property.
The rest are on Practical questions, answered directly.
The other rooms
The Great Hall: Family and celebration: travelling with children, and the trips that mark a year.
The Drawing Room: The finest addresses: the hotels, suites and houses we would choose first.
Or every piece, newest first: the Journal.
Something particular in mind