The Villa Deux Rivieres Hotel Luang Prabang is a beautiful boutique hotel with tastefully decorated rooms and local touches. The service is friendly and the river views add to the relaxing feel. It’s in walking distance to all the sights and great value – I recommend it for the price category and would stay again […]
You have decided to venture to Borneo and make Kota Kinabalu your base of exploration? Good choice – there are plenty of options for all types of hotels and budgets available, so let my Travel Made Easy post give you some insights to help you find the best place to stay in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah,
In the last few weeks, I kept you posted on the annual Daily Getaway promotion, offering hotel, car rental and amusement park promotions. This week’s Deal Dispatch documents what promotions I was able to buy and what I want to get out of them, as well as which ones I missed and why! See, how
This week’s Deal Dispatch is full of deals for air fares and hotels around the world. Usually, summer is when deals and promotions disappear and prices are sky high in much of the world, thanks to vacationers on school holidays, combined with business travelers. This year has seen a surprising number of deals from hotels
The Sofitel Luang Prabang is a fantastic luxury hotel with great service and impressive private pool villas, all located in a beautifully renovated colonial villa with lush grounds, providing a peaceful retreat outside the old town of Luang Prabang. The Suites are very large and decorated with tasteful, local touches! If you want to enjoy
If you are looking to book a hotel, there are certainly enough booking portals to choose from, with hotels.com and agoda.com among my favorites. The challenge is that each of these portals has their strength and weaknesses: Agoda is very strong in Asia and good in Europe, but looses out regularly against hotels.com in the
Sofitel is the top luxury brand of the Accor family of hotels – and they are positioned far up the luxury ladder from the budget ibis hotels that make up the majority of Accor properties. So, how good can a luxury hotel be, when it is run by a budget chain? Read on to find
This week’s Travel News is providing you with some insight into the pending acquisition of Starwood Hotels by Marriott. A lot of Starwood fans and bloggers are up in arms about the pending doom of their favorite hotel chain and rewards program – but is it really going to be so bad? I think the
We picked the Holiday Inn Chelsea as our second hotel in New York mainly based on the location – it’s a short walk from the Hotel Indigo we stayed previously and in the neighborhood we wanted to be in. While I was expecting to get less for less in comparison to the Indigo, I was
There has been news of a number of mergers and acquisitions in the hotel industry lately and of course travelers, points enthusiasts and the media have been wondering what it will all mean to them. The mergers in the airline industry in the US have shown that reduced competition can have a negative impact on
For a recent trip to New York City, I chose the Hotel Indigo in Chelsea, again! It is in a great neighborhood, with easy access to all that New York City has to offer, has stylish rooms and is available on IHG Rewards points and free night certificates, making a visit to New York much
This week’s Deal Dispatch brings you an overview of current hotel promotions that you can use to save money on travel around the world. I’m highlighting IHG’s ShareForever promotion, as well as promotions by Hilton, Choice, Wyndham and Best Western – all of which are participating in the current Daily Getaway promotion as well, so you