James Whitford

James writes the hotel and hostel reviews for the UK desk. If you're reading a chain hotel, boutique stay, or hostel review on this site, it's almost certainly his. He also assembles the curated 'best hotels' collections that group those reviews by city.

He books with his own money, checks in like any other guest, and writes about what breakfast actually looks like, what the night staff said when reception was unmanned, and how the final bill compared to the headline rate. If a property declines a follow-up stay because of a review, that goes in too.