I'm Roger Wheeler, a Brighton based travel writer with nearly 30 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 the travel trade is back..  I am planning a visit to Edinburgh in July, travelling by train this time to see how the now the publicly owned LNER is operating.

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.  Currently planning on trips 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.  

  My latest published article on Sicily  is 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.