Travel Reviews

A new boy on the Indian cuisine block in the shape of the glitzy Farzi Cafe has turned up on London's Haymarket last month.

The Windamere Hotel is one of the finest colonial hotels in India, understated and unpretentious, but steeped in history in Darjeeling, the home of the Indian tea industry.

Dan Accadia is literally steps away from Herzliya beach and has enough trimmings that a stay here works for families, couples and business travellers.

Ashdown Park Hotel is a Grade II listed neo-Gothic mansion house with verdant lawns home to a lilly lake and an 18-hole golf course.

Oakley Court in Windsor is a Victorian gothic mansion of epic proportions. The architecture and history of the place are perfectly complimented by the riverside location.

Onima Restaurant and bar has recently opened its doors in Avery Row near Bond Street Station and comes to town with its own tagline - Mykonos comes to Mayfair. Sharron Livingston checks it out.

Steigenberger Inselhotel stands on the banks of the largest lake in Germany enjoying a spectacular situation on a private island on Lake Constance.

You get an eyeful of splendour when you enter the Aloft at the David Whitney Building in Detroit. You also get a good night's sleep and attentive service.

The newly developed luxury sunglasses by GRESSO have solid titanium frames and claim to be unbreakable. Lucy Woods tests them out on a trip to Cambodia.

From panoramic landscapes to the glass towers of cities, rocky valleys to sun-baked deserts, no two rivers are the same. River cruises are now a major holiday experience, boutique ships and five-star trappings. A new book puts it all into perspective, but also tells the tale of rivers off the beaten track.