1. ALL ABOARD THE BOATEL

FBoatels, once something of a novelty, came of age last year, when the QE2 was reincarnated after 40 years of service as a permanently docked hotel in Dubai. It started a trend: the 23-cabin Fingal, formerly the Northern Lighthouse Board, will reopen this month in Edinburgh’s Port of Leith. Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames, another heritage beauty, reopens in