Rather than browsing the entire Web for the world’s best, small luxury hotels that offer the kinds of amenities you crave, now you can find many of them in one comprehensive site… The Charming Hotels Guide offers you an ‘exclusive selection of hotels with unique character from all over the world’ –– and you can…
I’m a big fan of ABC-TV’s smash hit “Lost.” If you’re a fan or you know one, then buy the official Oceanic Airways T-shirt for $25 from the Lost Fan Club Website from Creation Entertainment. In fact, you can buy individual and group cast photos, attend conventions, get on the mailing list. “Lost” fanatics can…
Traveling to England these days is a lot like having a baby. Everyone tells you the shock you’re in for, but you don’t realize how much everything costs until you actually experience it. For starters, our taxi ride cost $100 US from Heathrow to a hotel near Parliament. Meals were double what they’d be in…
The Côte d’Azur is one of the most famous stretches of beach in Europe — or anywhere else for that matter. Is this prime real estate? Is Cannes in France? Both are rhetorical questions. The Eden Hotel is a luxury boutique with just elegant 42 rooms, a contemporary and modern design, and a locale jsut…
Francis Ford Coppola owns an exclusive jungle resort near the Mayan ruins at Tikal. CBS is filming its latest “Survivor” TV hit show here. And over 1.4 million tourists are expected to visit Guatemala this year. It’s being called the new Hollywood — complete with 33 real volcanoes, rainforests, tropical weather, beautiful beaches, ancient ruins,…
All you can eat whole lobster for about twenty bucks. Need I say more? And to boot there’s all the gambling you can imagine. This isn’t a high-rise casino. This isn’t Red Lobster. Oh no. This is Boomtown, baby, and if you love gambling, free drinks at the table, and all the whole lobster you…
Now that the World Series is over, my love for baseball starts to fade until Spring Training. So I got a took a seventh inning stretch yesterday and visited Baseball As America, the first major exhibit to examine the relationship between the national pastine and American culture. It will remain in all its glory at…
Halloween always reminds me of scary moments in graveyards, the “Thriller” video, “Night on Bald Mountain” from “Fantasia,” slasher movies, and other things that go bump in the night. So while we’re on the subject, we’d like to share some of our scariest travel moments… and ask you to do the same by emailing us…
The wildest, wackiest and most entertaining Halloweens in my life were spent at the corner of Market and Castro Streets in San Francisco’s notorious gay district, AKA The Castro. Tonight, Halloween in the Castro III begins with the Annual March of Light Parade at 7:00 p.m. As this parade of costumed revelers enters the Castro…
They say it’s not over ’til the fat lady sings. But for discount carrier Song Airways, their tune will change next May when parent company Delta Air Lines will tap the best features of its low-cost, highly acclaimed Song. The goal is to launch a new, unique long-haul domestic Song service for Delta customers by…
My family never travels without arranging for someone to watch our two dogs, Lucy and Panda. That’s why stylish travel also includes our pets… • In September, we told you about Pets Can Stay Travel Services. • In July, we let you know that Loews Hotels offered pampered pet packages. • In June, we shared…
Well, we’ve hit another milestone! Help us celebrate Vagablond’s 350th posting to our fashionable travel site — in record time, we might add. So please grab a plate, a fork and bring your appetite to share a delicious slice of success as our unique visitors, number of visitors, pages and hits have all doubled since…