The Charming Small Hotel Guides stand out for their excellent writing. Compare just one of our entries with its counterpart in a pay-guide - for example Johanssens, or Special Places to Stay - and you'll immediately notice the difference. Instead of the pay-guides' gush of approval, the Charming Small Hotel Guides offer a calm, reasoned evaluation.
We go to great pains to try to get under the skin of each hotel; to draw a word-sketch of what the hotel really is. The Charming Small Hotel Guides were started in 1986 by Andrew Duncan and Mel Petersen and over 30 years later remain one of the most important publishing activities of London co-edition publisher Duncan Petersen.
In 2001 Mel Petersen died tragically young of a brain tumour aged 54; since then Andrew Duncan has carried on the business, with his wife Fiona Duncan (The Sunday Telegraph's hotel critic and travel writer) acting as chief editor of the Charming Small Hotel Guides.They are helped by a team of freelance inspectors. We weren't having a holiday in Italy at all until I saw the book in a bookshop and was hooked (we're in Australia and haven't travelled overseas in years).
We go to great pains to try to get under the skin of each hotel; to draw a word-sketch of what the hotel really is. The Charming Small Hotel Guides were started in 1986 by Andrew Duncan and Mel Petersen and over 30 years later remain one of the most important publishing activities of London co-edition publisher Duncan Petersen.
In 2001 Mel Petersen died tragically young of a brain tumour aged 54; since then Andrew Duncan has carried on the business, with his wife Fiona Duncan (The Sunday Telegraph's hotel critic and travel writer) acting as chief editor of the Charming Small Hotel Guides.They are helped by a team of freelance inspectors. We weren't having a holiday in Italy at all until I saw the book in a bookshop and was hooked (we're in Australia and haven't travelled overseas in years).
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