Hotel Kong Arthur, Copenhagen

I love secrets. Secret bars, secret gardens, secret superpowers. It’s so exciting knowing something that most others don’t. All of which explains why I fall for central Copenhagen’s Hotel Kong Arthur the very moment I learn during an arrival tour that it has a secret exit.   I’ll spill, but only if you promise not…
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Parisian Inn Cognito: Hotel Dupond-Smith, Paris

Richard Mellor visits a new boutique lodging that not only can be discreet, but is also devoted to the art of keeping schtum.   Saint Léger Léger. John Doe. Alan Smithee. Lord R’Hoone. These colourful people have two things in common: they don’t exist, their names being pseudonyms adopted by celebrities across the ages, and…
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It Sèze It All: Hôtel de Sèze, Paris

Can Paris really accommodate yet another perfectly formed, architect-designed bijou boutique hide away? May wee, as they say in pubs of Bolton.   Madeleine is one of those Parisian areas; an, in-the-know hangout which locals love, but which scarcely flickers on the common tourist radar. And – one says smugly, upon unearthing the secret –…
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