Arriving now through January 2006, Marriott Hotels and Resorts will be featuring the new Revive Collection Bed as part of a redesign to make their rooms more inviting to guests. Marriott obviously wants to be more like a boutique, so this bed features an indulgent mattress, designer duvet, hypoallergenic fully pillows, and luxurious linens.
Though the weather outside here in California is in the 80s, Mount Tremblant Resort in Quebec’s Laurentian mountains, 90 miles from Montreal, is now advertising its Ski & Stay Packages with savings of 30% on skiing and lodgings if you book by October 31. This was voted the #1 ski resort in Eastern North America…
Disney’s Parks have a squeaky clean iamge. So this will appeal to the opposite end of the park-going public: According to Netscape News, developers in London have announced that they’ll open a new $8.3 million dollar sexual “theme park” near Piccadilly Circus at the Trocadero Entertainment Center next Spring. So The Kinks and Sex Pistols…
In the stylish travel industry, female friendly hotels are a new buzzword. In fact, with women now comprising 50% of frequent fliers, more hotels are catering to them. One is the stunning, spectacular and new five-star Grange City Hotel, near the Tower of London. Here, 68 additional bedrooms have been designed with the woman traveller’s…
For 153 years, the French Quarter’s Cafe du Monde has been known for its hot, French-style, powdered-sugar covered beignet doughnuts, its rich, dark-roast, chicory-laced coffee and its round-the-clock service to the breakfast and hangover crowds in New Orleans. Now, its original Jackson Square venue is set to open next Wednesday after being closed since August…
A few weeks ago, we wrote about ski jumping on San Francisco’s hills on 200 tons of artificial snow. Now, we’ve got the real thing as the US ski season opened yesterday for the sixth straight year in the Loveland Ski Area, Colorado. The resorts where I ski most in California and Nevada don’t usually…
On Expedia.com, the air space between Hawaii and the West Coast is on sale for two days with fares from $283 roundtrip on Hawaiian Airlines, ending at 10pm PDT October 14. So you have less than 8 hours to book and save on a flight to Honolulu from these Western US cities: LA, Sacramento, San…
When the free breakfast is described as “a three-course raft of delights to be enjoyed in the privacy of your room,” it stands to reason that The Tonic Hotel is a destination boutique bolt hole. Set on a river about 2 hours north of Sydney in the vineyards of Lovedale in Australia’s Hunter Valley, this…
If you could watch your own movies and TV programs on a plane with the new Video iPod, would you? Or would you still rent headphones and watch the choice of their handful of movies — some of which you’ve already seen or some you don’t ever want to watch? Apple’s new 2.5-inch color display…
Who knew “jiggle-ability” could be measured? And who knew Jell-O was the focus of so many consuming surveys and experiments? Visiting the Jell-O Gallery — less than an hour’s drive from Buffalo — in LeRoy, New York, I learned more than I ever knew there was to know about the bouncy kid-pleaser. As a child…
When I got my first laptop, most hotels offered dial-up in your room to check your email or get Web access. But over the past three years, I’ve seen all the big hotel chains upgrade to broadband or even Wi-Fi. (I’ve paid up to $20 for 24 hours or as low as $0.) Now, the…
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