"modest luxury" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
The phrase is used to describe something which is luxurious but not too extravagant. For example, you could say "The five-star hotel offered modest luxury rooms, giving us the perfect balance between comfort and affordability."
Modest luxuries add panache to holiday entertaining.
Buvette stands for wallowing gracefully in modest luxuries: a well-made omelet, a well-seasoned horseradish cream sauce, a well-balanced chocolate mousse.
The Kremlin boys are stinking rich and they have no intention of returning to the modest luxuries once enjoyed by the Soviet elite.
The resort offers modest luxuries — air-conditioning, fresh Italian pasta in its central lobby restaurant, which fronts a pool and a line of bungalows — though no Internet or phones in the rooms.
At breakfast we drank Belgian coffee and ate bread baked by Le Pain Quotidien, one of the world's great bakeries, and I relaxed in Belgian appreciation of modest luxuries in daily life.
In order to compete with rival shipping company Cunard, the White Star Line offered their steerage passengers modest luxuries, in the hopes that emigrants would write to relatives back home and encourage them to travel on White Star Line ships.
For someone with a modest income, a meal out is a small luxury.
Concessions and parking had modest decreases; luxury suite rentals leaped 54 percent to $5.8 million; and advertising, the biggest source of revenue after club seats, was $47.9 million, up about $1 million.
"It was a time when growing consumerism led to increased production, acquisition and display of an immense variety of both modest and luxury items".
Indeed, Gorbuntsov's flat in the East End of London was comparatively modest – a luxury service apartment, for sure, but nothing like the Knightsbridge penthouse and country estate favoured by other Russian billionaires settling on the island.
