I'm Roger Wheeler, a Brighton based travel writer with nearly 40 years experience specialising in travel, hotel and resort reviews both in the UK and Europe. The problems caused to the travel industry by the pandemic now have been resolved but we now have the more serious issue of the EU Entry/Exit and Visit waiver regulations which are due to start on 6th October 2024. 

 I visited to Edinburgh in July, travelling by train this time to see how the now the publicly owned LNER is operating. it was excellent.  Edinburgh was of course wonderful.

Currently I am recommending staying in the UK, particularly visiting London now that there are no less than 60 five star hotels in the Capital.  I have visited the Montcalm  hotel in Old Street which is quite fabulous and the Royal London House which was very good.  I also like the Accor Group hotels and many Hilton hotels of course.  Recent trips have been to Windsor, RHS Wisley; The Eden Project and the newly opened Battersea Power Station.

I now run a monthly travel forum with up to 100 members and I will be posting my notes on the Brighton column every month.  I used write a monthly travel column for Gscene Magazine, but I no longer contribute after nearly 30 years. some of my articles have been published throughput the world by GN magazine in the US.

 If you wish to contact me an email is the best way.

 Our recent trip to Ashdown Park Hotel in East Sussex was quite remarkable, having visited many country house hotels Ashdown Park has got it right, we couldn't find any fault at all.  Immaculate staff, fantastic rooms and very good food, one of the best.  I have visited most of the many country house hotels in Sussex, most are excellent but Ashdown Park is without doubt about the best there is, highly recommended, one of the best weekends in a long time. A word of warning, it may be about the best around but it is also one of the most expensive, but of course you get what you pay for.  In August we visited the Swinton Estate in North Yorkshire which was really glorious.  Subsequently we stayed at the Hotel du Van in Clifton, Bristol.  January we went to Eltham Palace in SE London which needs to be seen and on to the Intercontinental Hotel at the O2.  Currently I am planning on seeing the High Tatras mountains of Slovakia and eventually returning to southern Africa.

  My last published article before the magaine went online and stopped featuring travel was on Sicily and can be read here:

To see all my published articles just click on the Travel Reviews tab . To date I have reviewed over 250 hotels not all have been wonderful, but I endeavour to report things as I see them. I contribute to several travel sites as well as regular travel articles for Gscene Magazine (gscene.com).  All my articles are on the Gscene website which gets an amazing worldwide average 2,000 hits per day.

 I can highly recommend taking a look at my partner's website for his very relevant comments on today's world.  His column is published bi-monthly in Gscene.

 My reviews on TripAdvisor have been read by no less than 90,000 people

 Our last trip to the Costa del Sol,  (where today you really do need to speak some Russian!) was great We went to Cadiz as a side trip booking into the Parador Hotel Atlantico.  Just two years old this is a fabulous hotel The article has so far had over 11,500 unique hits.

 And  now I am a Prize Winning writer,  after many years writing travel articles I have been awarded a prize, admittedly only as a runner-up but thank you Owners Abroad nonetheless.