'Smug gig Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby left me seething with resentment' Mirror 13/02/2021 Sara Wallis Poor Giles Coren and Monica Galetti have been put to work again – in one of the most jaw-droppingly stunning hotels in the world. Excuse me while I play my very tiny violin, but in the world of smug TV gigs, this is up there. In Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby, which returned to BBC2 on Thursday, the unlikely duo travel the globe – or at least they did in Before Times – to find astonishing, unaffordable places to rest their weary heads. They have to “roll up their sleeves” and help the staff, but since they are usually rewarded with infinity pools and cocktails, it seems worth it.