Appetite For Distraction

Spending Christmas in a hotel isn’t for everybody. But if you’re trying to create new traditions that will help you move on from sad memories of missed loved ones, it might be just the tonic

Christmas in a hotel will be magical and wholesome and fulfilling and festive

I daresay I will never feel more Home Alone 2: Lost in New York than when I tell you I am spending this Christmas in a hotel. As a kid (and as an adult, to be fair), I was both fascinated and horrified at the idea of waking up on Christmas morning anywhere other than my own bedroom, sweating above an electric blanket and under a thermal one. But after 30-something years of ...