The Bents patronised a catalogue of hotels and other establishments during their twenty years of explorations to the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa, from 1880 to 1900 (see the interactive maps on this site for additional info!).
**Coming next! “Reynolds Hotel”, Karachi
The following blog posts investigate just some of those establishments:
- The Bents and the Raj
- Mabel – with thoughts of diamonds on the soles of her shoes
- The Bents’ hotels – the ‘Grand Hôtel d’Angleterre’, Ermoúpoli (Sýros)
Among the hotels, khans and caravanserais to follow are:
1883: November – Hôtel des Etrangers, Athens
1883: December – Hôtel d’Angleterre, Ermoupolis, Syros
1884: April – Hotel St. George, Corfu
1884: April – Hotel Brun, Bologna
1885: January – Hôtel de Genève, Marseilles
1885: January – Hotel Royal, Cairo
1885: February – The Pension of Nicolas Dhascala, Niohori, Rhodes town.
1885: April – Hôtel d’Angleterre, Ermoupolis, Syros
1886: February – Hôtel de Byzance, Constantinople (also visited by her brother Robert several years before, in 1870)
1886: February – Hôtel d’Égypte. Smyrna
1886: May – Hôtel des Etrangers, Athens.
1887: February – Hôtel des Etrangers, Athens
1887: February – Hôtel de France, Volo
1887: February – Hotel Trikále, Thessaloniki
1887: May – Hôtel d’Europe, Vranya
1888: January – Station Hotel, Marseilles
1888: January – Hôtel de Byzance, Istanbul
1888: February – Hôtel d’Anatolie, Broussa.
1888: February – Hotel Aigyptos, Ermoupolis, Syros
1888: April – Hôtel de Byzance, Istanbul
1888: April – Hôtel Gennik, Adrianople
1888: April – Hotel Bulgaria, Sofia
1888: May – Central Hotel, Berlin
1889: January – Reynold’s Hotel, Karachi
1889: May – Hotel London, Erivan, Armenian
1889: May – Hotel Koukas, Tiflis, Georgia
1889: June – Hôtel de l’Europe, Vladikavkas, Russia
1889: June, Hôtel de l’Europe, Warsaw
1890: January – Hôtel St. Gothard, Lucerne
1890: January – Aquila d’Oro, Rimini
1890: January – H. della Pau, Ancona
1890: January – Hôtel des Etrangers, Athens
1891: February – Royal Hotel, Cape Town
1891: February – Queen’s Hotel, Kimberley
1891: March – Vryburg Hotel, Vryburg
1891: November – Royal Hotel, Durban
1893: December – Hôtel de l’Univers, Aden
1894: March – Hôtel du Louvre and de la Paix, Marseilles
1895: December – Hôtel du Nord, Milan
1895: December – Hôtel Danielli, Venice
1895: December – Hôtel de France, Port Said
1895: December – Hôtel d’Orient, Suez
1896: March – Grand Hotel, Athens
1896: November – Station Hotel, Marseilles
1896: December – Hôtel de l’Europe, Aden
1904: February – Grand New Hotel, Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem (Mabel alone)
1904: Spring – Pension Hughes/Hughes’ Hotel. Jaffa Road, Jerusalem (Mabel alone)
1905: Spring – Pension Hughes/Hughes’ Hotel. Jaffa Road, Jerusalem (Mabel alone)