Of all the questions levelled at me as a travel journalist, where to go that’s chic and won’t break us financially comes top.
It’s the holy grail, where taste trumps expense, and bragging rights shift towards hidden, wholly affordable gems. There are plenty of these under-the-radar stays on the fringes of places associated with haute holidays, sometimes even hiding in plain sight (The Italian Lakes and The Balaerics, for example).
