Tina loves to travel and loves to eat good food, she is happiest when she can combine the two – her top favourite spots include Vietnam, India and Italy. Wherever she travels, a good hotel is at the heart of it all, encapsulating the destination as well as being a comfortable place to lay your head. A lifestyle journalist for over 20 years, her articles have included topics such as learning to play polo (admittedly she was terrible) to plunging into freezing cold lakes in Finland in the name of research.