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Our travel consultants
REBECCA MARTIN
Head of Travel Team
Languages spoken English; basic French
Favourite destinations Seychelles; Kenya
Favourite hotel Amandari, Ubud, Bali
Areas of expertise Africa; Indian Ocean
Putting her psychology degree to good use every day, Rebecca uses the skills she learnt to enrich and motivate the travel team. Before joining Mr & Mrs Smith, Rebecca spent eight years at Kuoni, road-testing luxury holidays from Mauritian beach breaks to action-packed African safaris – all in the name of research, of course. After this, she worked as head of account management for Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
CAROLYN ADDISON
Concierge Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English; Spanish
Favourite destinations Spain; South Africa; California; Scotland
Favourite hotel Singita Sabi Sands, South Africa
Areas of expertise honeymoons; USA; Spain; round-the-world trips
US-born Carolyn has lived and studied everywhere from Glasgow to China, qualifying her as a worldly wise travel addict. Having flip-flopped across six of earth’s continents, Carolyn currently also holds the Smith title of Honeymoon Expert. Her top tips for the hot new post-nuptial destinations? Brazil, Morocco and Bhutan…
SUZY SMALL
Concierge Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English; basic French
Favourite destination Cape Town, South Africa
Favourite hotel Corral del Rey, Spain
Areas of expertise UK; Europe; South Africa
After leaving the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she spent all of her student loan on travelling, Suzy became sales manager at Les Routiers UK pub and restaurant guides. This piqued her interest in great gastronomic destinations, and she now specialises in recommending the world’s best restaurants to our GoldSmith members.
ROBBIE JANSSEN
Concierge Travel Consultant
Languages spoken English; Dutch; German
Favourite destination Paris
Favourite hotel Hotel Endsleigh, Devon
Areas of expertise UK; Europe
Having worked in the travel industry for eight years, Robbie, originally from Holland, is fluent in Dutch, German and English. A bride-to-be once called him, stated her budget and instructed him to ‘Just go ahead and book my honeymoon – anywhere – I’m leaving it to you entirely.’ Two weeks, later, she returned from two Smith hotels – Fuente de la Higuera in Ronda and the Hacienda de San Rafael in Seville – thanking him for the most amazing holiday of her life.
SOPHIE BINGHAM
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination India; Thailand
Favourite hotel Haymarket, London
Area of expertise UK
Fuelling her passion for all things cultural with a six-month stint teaching English in Nepal, Sophie followed this with time in Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. She then headed to the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she worked in call centres and dished up the best pizzas in the southwest to fund trips to India and Morocco. She can now offer advice on anything travel-related – from where to buy the best bangles in India to which Thai beach is best for sun-worshipping.
NICOLE BEGIN
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destination Turks and Caicos
Favourite hotel Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos
Areas of expertise Caribbean; UK
After studying tourism at college, Nicole worked for Kuoni for nine years, where she organised people’s dream trips all over the world – while indulging in a few herself. Feeding orangutans in Borneo was a particular highlight. A love of boutique hotels brought her into the Mr & Mrs Smith fold, and she has recently moved to London to both be nearer our Chiswich office and to experience the delight of escaping the capital at weekends to stay at her favourite rural Smith getaways.
LAETITIA BERTHOUX
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English; French
Favourite destination Ibiza, Spain
Favourite hotel The Rectory, Cotswolds
Areas of expertise Europe & Smith Ski
After graduating in performing and visual arts in her native France, Laetitia waved goodbye to the Alps and set out on a search for the perfect desert island. She settled in London’s urban jungle six years ago, and put her experience of growing up to good use as a ski-holiday advisor. She is still passionate about her travel and devotes her spare time to her ongoing quest for the perfect beach – all for the benefit of her Mr & Mrs Smith clients, of course.
SASHA DELANEY
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English; Spanish
Favourite destination Central America
Favourite hotel Castle on the Cliff, South Africa
Area of expertise UK & Europe
As she began her travels at just three months old, it is no surprise that Sasha has ended up sharing her expertise with Mr & Mrs Smith members. After finishing school, she started seriously racking up the air miles with trips to Australia, Italy and Belize, where she taught English in a remote village. She completed a degree in Spanish, before beginning work as an operations executive, organising bespoke luxury trips in the UK for American clients. Now at Smith, she is working round the clock to choose her favourite boutique bolthole by visiting as many as possible.
STEVIE GULLIFORD
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English
Favourite destinations Florence; Tuscany
Favourite hotel Tuddenham Mill, Suffolk
Areas of expertise UK (shooting, fishing, riding and other country pursuits); Smith & Friends
A former booker of luxury round-the-world trips for diamond-dripping clients, Stevie developed a love of all things tweed while working as ‘country concierge’ for a small company that specialised in organising hunting, fishing and falconry breaks in the UK and Ireland for the British aristocracy. Now happily ensconced at Mr & Mrs Smith, she is coming to terms with the lack of an office butler by indulging her appetite for fabulous hotels as often as she can.
CHARLIE HOLLOWAY
Travel Team Consultant
Languages spoken English; basic Spanish
Favourite destinations Cornwall; Thailand
Favourite hotel Mystique, Santorini, Greece
Area of expertise UK
Following seven months in South America, Charlie went to study archaeology at Durham University. During her time as a student, she saved to escape the northeastern climate and travelled to Morocco, South Africa, India, and Spain. After graduating in 2007, she travelled through southeast Asia, visiting Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. She settled in London in January 2008, where she joined an events company and organised the launch party of the P&O liner Ventura. Her passion for travel, however, was too strong – which is why she’s ended up working for Mr & Mrs Smith.