David has been covering the travel scene for more almost 40 years, combining this passion with his life as a Fleet Street journalist.
Much of his early writing was for the Press Association and many of his features over the years have featured in The Mail on Sunday, TravelMail and, more recently, The Independent and the i. He is also a regular contributor to TripAdvisor.
Stoke Park country club in Buckinghamshire is celebrating becoming the first 5 Star hotel in the UK to have padel courts and helping to boost the racquet sport’s popularity. Introduced to the UK in 1992, padel has been played for more than 100 years and has become a sporting phenomenon throughout many Hispanic nations including
The 266-room beach resort Kandima Maldives will join millions around the world in turning off lights for one hour on Saturday (30 March) at 20:30 local time to illuminate a powerful message about environmental awareness. The theme of the 2019 Earth Hour celebration focuses on climate change, global warming and the reduction of plastic waste in
The Four Seasons Fairways private villa resort in Quinta do Lago is celebrating the re-opening of a number of its hillside apartments that have undergone a huge refurbishment. Nestled within the privacy and security of Portugal’s Ria Formosa nature reserve, the resort is home to 132 colonial style villas and apartments set in beautifully landscaped
The Peloponnese peninsula is home to more wineries and grape varieties than any other region in Greece, but for wine buffs the Dexamenes Seaside Hotel, which opens in May, offers an extraordinary experience of sleeping off a good night out in old wine tanks dating back to the 1920s. Carved from an abandoned winery set
With a name like The Lowry its is only to be expected that the Manchester hotel’s latest creation would be a work of art. And the first glimpse of its newly renovated Presidential Suite matches those expectations. The suite, already famous for its VIP guest list, will now cost £4,000 a night following renovations totalling
A trip down Memory Lane with HotelView editor David Simpson Learning that Raffles Singapore was accepting reservations for its new and expanded suite life brought the memories flooding back. Is it really 25 years since I crossed the threshold of this iconic hotel with my wife to celebrate her 40th birthday? From the word go
The 42-room hotel Chapter Roma, opening in March, is the first location in the newly established Chapter Italia Portfolio developed by Marco Cilia, formerly of Hotel Americano in New York City. Set in Rome’s vibrant and historic Regola neighbourhood, and part of the Design Hotels collection, Chapter Roma aims to provide accessibility to luxury that
InterContinental Hotels Group has reinforced its position as the largest luxury hotel brand in the world with the $300m purchase of Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas. The acquisition extends IHG’s reach to a community of affluent travellers and provides instant access to some of the world’s most sought-after locations including the Maldives, pictured top of
A Jumbo jet normally covers 12.5 kilometers in less than a minute, but City of Bangkok’s epic final journey from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport was anything but ordinary, with a flightpath crossing 17 ditches, highway A9 and one provincial road. In fact this 12.5-kilometer journey, which attracted worldwide media attention, took five days as the jet,
Four Seasons claims “an extraordinary journey is about to begin” as it prepares to open the doors of its new Four Seasons Hotel Bengaluru at Embassy ONE, the company’s second venture in India, joining its sister property in Mumbai. Reservations are now being confirmed from 1 May, with an introductory Early Bird offers enabling guests