Christy Spring

Associate Editor

Christy Spring's articles

Hotel review: Langdale Chase

Christy Spring kips at Langdale Chase on Lake Windermere – a storied Victorian hotel with a museum-grade motor yacht

Published: Sunday 7th June 2026

The best family-owned hotels

What does it take to run a hotel that outlasts empires, divorces and difficult cousins? From farms transformed by daring couples to grand dames in the family since the 1800s, Christy Spring picks out her favourite family-owned hotels

Published: Tuesday 26th May 2026

Eat, pray, wait: a guide to the Bali holiday you didn't book

Christy Spring didn’t come to Bali seeking transformation but instead to catch a connecting flight. Stranded by flooding and her father’s heart surgery looming back home, she finds that island serenity looks different when you actually need it

Published: Thursday 7th May 2026

Testing out Janji's latest running collection

American running brand Janji makes kit that's as practical as it is considered – we put it through its paces to find out if it lives up to the hype

Published: Wednesday 8th April 2026

The world's most beautiful train stations

Forget strip-lit terminals and joyless queues – these railway stations make the journey as magical as the destination. Christy Spring picks out the finest palaces of movement, filled with Gothic grandeur and Beaux-Arts beauty

Published: Wednesday 18th March 2026

The Escapism guide to Tignes

Tignes is a magnet for adventurous skiers – 300km of terrain across the Espace Killy, a season that stretches well beyond its neighbours, and a crowd that would rather be first on the glacier than first in the champagne queue

Published: Sunday 1st February 2026

What a city of craft taught me about repair

In Kanazawa, where samurai once laid down their swords for teacups and kilns, craft has long been a strategy for survival. Christy Spring meets its artisans for whom making – and mending – offer resilience in the face of loss

Published: Tuesday 30th December 2025
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The best mountain hotels for the 2025/26 ski season

Check out this season’s hottest ski stays, including cosy chalets, sleek hotels, forest cabins, and even igloos – from Norway to Japan

Published: Wednesday 17th December 2025

Hotel review: The Dorchester

The Park Lane landmark has watched a century of London life glide by. Expect Art Deco grandeur, Martinis and top-tier Peking duck

Published: Monday 8th December 2025

Skiing in a parallel universe: inside Courchevel’s £126k-a-week chalet

Skip the high-altitude ham sandwiches and budget booze, Courchevel is a powder playground for the ultra-rich. Christy Spring checks into a chalet costing over £126,000 a week to see if it’s worth the dough

Published: Monday 24th November 2025
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Hotel review: Fowlescombe Farm

Christy Spring calls agriculture vultures to Fowlescombe Farm for piglets, pastures and peerless provisions

Published: Monday 24th November 2025

Inside Austria’s most unplugged mountain retreat

Once prescribed as medicine for the frazzled, Europe’s mountains still trade on their promise of cure. In the Tyrolean Alps, Christy Spring checks into Eriro – a nine-room hideaway where luxury involves slipping off the map

Published: Tuesday 18th November 2025
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The 26 best journeys to embark on in 2026

We've picked 26 epic, perspective-shifting journeys to take in 2026, from luxury train rides and cross-country road trips to cycling odysseys

Published: Monday 3rd November 2025

Hotel review: Grantley Hall

Christy Spring heads up to Grantley Hall, a hotel where obsessive attention to detail has become the main attraction

Published: Wednesday 22nd October 2025

Go the extra mile: e-biking through Turkey's Taurus Mountains

Cycling through the remote Taurus Mountains, Christy Spring discovers that e-bikes do more than ease the climbs – they shrink distances, bridge generations, and open up a Turkey most travellers never see

Published: Thursday 16th October 2025

Going East: skiing Europe by public transport

New film Going East follows four skiers who ditch planes for public transport to traverse Europe’s mountains from Italy to Turkey. Christy Spring talks with director-editor Loïc Isliker about the film’s celebration of slow travel

Published: Thursday 4th September 2025
A bikepacker embraces soggy socks as he crosses a shallow river cycling the Kjolur Route in Iceland during the summer months

Seven bikepacking routes to try

Shake off the doldrums and swap sofa for a saddle: bikepacking is the lean, mean antidote to the midweek rut. Grab a bike, pack light and tackle anything from Méribel’s alpine heights to Iceland’s volcanic moonscapes

Published: Monday 1st September 2025
A verdant landscape of lakes and palm trees as seen from a nine- seater seaplane flying from Hatton to Yala National Park

Hatton to Yala: behind Sri Lanka's wildlife curtain

Emerging from decades of conflict, a tsunami and an economic crisis, Christy Spring finds Sri Lanka pulsing with wildlife, inviting travellers to venture beyond the all‑inclusive haze into its untamed wilderness

Published: Monday 11th August 2025

Flow state: navigating landlocked Laos by Mekong River cruise

Embarking on a Mekong River cruise, Christy Spring observes Laos at a crossroads. Ancient rituals converge with burgeoning luxury travel and bold infrastructure projects, signalling a nation on the cusp of a potential tourism boom

Published: Friday 8th August 2025

Hotel review: Marine and Lawn North Berwick

Christy Spring finds Scotland’s answer to Biarritz in the bracing sea air and big skies of North Berwick

Published: Wednesday 4th June 2025