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Browse through a selection of our fabulous PR and media coverage featuring hundreds of our small chic hotels, luxury villas and B&Bs. Here we feature just a selection which includes articles and features in some of the best luxury lifestyle magazines, international newspapers and online websites.

Chic Retreats has been featured in over 300 international magazines & newspapers worldwide including FT How to Spend It, The New York Times, Tatler, Vogue, Travel and Leisure, Harpers Bazaar, The Times, and Town and Country amongst many others.  Lulu works hard to receive the best press coverage possible in the right publications and prides herself on delivering tangible, effective results.  

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THE TIMES

10 of the best hotels with views

by Ben Cooper

Hotel Palazzo Manfredi, Rome (Nominated by Lulu Townsend of Chic Retreats)

With its unmatchable views of Rome’s Colosseum, Byron could well have penned his famous line about “the stars twinkling through the loops of time” from the roof-top terrace of Hotel Palazzo Manfredi. First thing in the morning is perhaps the best time to take it all in: enjoying a morning espresso against a backdrop of the Imperial Fora, the Domus Aurea, the Ludus Magnus, the arches of the Colosseum and the muffled dawn chorus of motorbikes as the city awakes.

BELLE MAGAZINE

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