Hotel News and Design

For most people, a hotel is somewhere to stay between extended periods at home. For me, it is precisely the opposite. I spend much of the year on the road in hotel beds of all shapes, sizes and inclinations. Incredulously, this pleasurable pastime equates to work, as I report on global hotel news and trends for various publications.

When I’m not in a hotel, I am at that obscure place called home, surrounded by little take-home reminders of my life in hotels … Shampoos, shoe bags and shiners, note pads, key cards, drink coasters, matchboxes, ‘Do Not Disturb’ and ‘Please Clean My Room’ signs.

I have a fetish for such mementos – they reassure me that I will soon be on my way again, towards ‘Destination Hotel’. I am not entirely miserable at a fixed address. In fact, I like nesting in for a short time. Only I generally prefer to do so at somebody else’s home, where there is less risk of stopping in my tracks for too long.

Home Sweet Hotel: Hotel Addict

As a carriage of my travelling life, I find hotels infinitely fascinating. For the people you encounter staying in them, the astounding nuances they and their owners display, and the extraordinary places they are often found in.

Hotels provide me with what I esteem to be one of the greatest gifts in life – the feeling of being temporarily at home while constantly on the move. Of course, many of them are destinations in their own right. Others are mere shells … practical enough, though far from poetic. I prefer the latter kind.

As an unabashed hotel addict, with an obsession for all things hotel, it would be remiss of me not to share some of those passions and serendipitous stays with my readers. I have reported on hotels around the world for magazines including Hospitality Design, Sleeper and Architectural Digest (AD).