I love cities at night, or to be more precise looking from a rooftop over the skyline of a large city at night, with lights sparkling on high-rise buildings all around. I also love sunsets on the ocean. Put both of them together in one place and you have a sure-fire winner! The Bayleaf hotel […]
My favorite church and the top tourist sight in Manila (read more here), at least in my book, is the beautiful church of San Agustin, with its attached museum. I’m not the only one who is impressed – the UNESCO named it a World Heritage site of four baroque churches in the Philippines.
Our trip to Paris for the New Years celebration, one of the most expensive times of the year for hotels, send me looking for an upscale hotel we could stay with points – and the Radisson Blu Champs Elysees was our first place to rest our heads. It turned out to be a beautiful hotel
The Louvre is the largest museum in the world. With 35,000 objects and over 60,000 square meters of space, you better bring your walking shoes to explore it. And with more than 9 million visitors each year, you need to plan ahead for your visit. And visit, you should, not only to see the Mona
We went to Cape Town to meet friends from the other side of the world and also to start our Southern Africa adventure (read more here). We booked the Radisson Blu Waterfront as a treat and that’s exactly what it turned out to be – a real treat of a hotel! It’s in a great
One of the things you just have to see when visiting Cape Town (report here) is Table Mountain. It’s unique shape gives Cape Town a lot of character, seen from many places around the city as well as from the ocean! But even more stunning are the views over the city from the top on
For New Years eve, we chose the Radisson Blu Le Dokhan’s Hotel, Paris Trocadero. It’s a charming hotel not far from the Eiffel Tower, yet in a neighborhood that is not dominated by tourists, making it a great choice for visitors! And it’s neo-classical style makes it a perfect fit for a romantic getaway to
Radisson Blu is one of the upscale brand of the Carlson family of hotels and one of my favorite places to stay in Europe. With a mix of stylish and classic properties in all the big cities, Radisson Blu offers some great experiences, far different from the lower Radisson brand more familiar in the USA.
Philippine Airlines and it’s reward program Mabuhay miles have been struggling – most of the regional carriers it is competing with are part of a global alliance. Now, based on an interview of PAL CEO Jaime Bautista with the Inquirer (a leading newspaper in the Philippines), Philippine Airlines is pursuing membership of a global alliance
We recently traveled on a Thalys high-speed train from Cologne to Paris. While I love high-speed trains for the speed and downtown-to-downtown convenience, I never gave a lot of thought to the customer service of the – often – government or previously government owned operators. So what Thalys did after the trip, really surprised me
Every day you can read about the ever shrinking economy class on planes, passenger rage about seat recline and long delays of plane travel – enough trouble to make you want to stay at home? There is a much more pleasant alternative to travel around Europe – high speed trains and you should try them!
Staying at an art’otel is a unique way of spending a night away from home – each hotel is designed with the input of one artist and displays his/her work throughout the hotel, making it in a way a modern museum with comfortable beds. The art’otel Cologne was designed with the artist Seo (Sook Kyong,