Nigel’s globetrotting career began one wet Monday morning in 1985 when he went to London’s Liverpool Street station and caught a train to Hong Kong. Since then, he’s been roaming all over the world, writing principally for The Daily Telegraph and its weekend companion, The Sunday Telegraph. Currently travel editor of Marie Claire, he’s constantly checking into hotels. The best? ‘A tent in Antarctica – until it blew away.’ The worst? ‘A candle-lit lodge in the Peruvian Amazon, where I just happened to spot a cockroach on my toothbrush…’

Nigel Tisdall anonymously reviewed:
Hôtel Daniel in Paris – Read the review