Although I still have a deep affinity for Japan’s business hotels, it has become harder and harder to stay at them with a baby in tow. It’s certainly possible, but it’s definitely harder. And while there are plenty of decent-sized, modestly priced hotel rooms outside of Tokyo, it can be difficult to find something suitable […]
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Sometimes, when you travel, even the best laid plans can be quickly and easily blown up. After a long daytime flight in economy with a one-year-old from Brussels to Atlanta, we were not thrilled to be sitting in the back of the bus again for another long economy flight from Seattle to Tokyo. We sighed
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After a long weekend shopping and eating in Tokyo, I needed a way to get back to Bangkok and with just 40,000 American Airlines miles required to fly Japan Airlines’ (JAL) first class product on their Boeing 777-300, was there really any other option? What surprised me most about the booking process was that there
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I should start off by saying that the Winter Palace is one of my favorite hotels in the world. Heck, it’s probably one of my favorite places in the world too. So, after a hiatus of more than five years, it was high time to return to Luxor. One of the factors that influenced my decision
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A recent work trip to New England had me staying at the Boston Moxy Downtown for four nights. It is an extremely hip and well-positioned downtown which was in a very convenient location for work, but also would have been a very good spot had I been in Boston as a tourist. I happened to
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Given the popularity of the look at the best seat in economy class on Delta’s Airbus 350, it seems that a lot of people are looking for how to stay comfortable in the back of the bus. So, I decided that another post on the best economy seat on another of America’s big three carriers,
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While new hotels are almost always enjoyable to stay in, new hotels in Japan often have an added bonus – that they still smell like hinoki (Japanese cypress). On a recent trip to Nara, I was lucky enough to experience this Japanese new hotel smell at the Novotel Nara. I was in Nara for just
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It might be reasonable to expect that a business class seat on a mid- to long-haul flight in Asia on a five-star airline in 2025 would lie flat. Not so with ANA, which still operates Boeing 787 Dreamliners with cradle recliners on intra-Asia (and trans-Pacific, for that matter) routes. I expected to be a little
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Last year, in April, Singapore Airlines announced that it would be returning to Brussels, and I was thrilled because it meant all of my favorite airlines (Qatar, ANA, and Singapore) would operate out of Brussels. Looking for an opportunity to test out the new flight, operated on Singapore’s Airbus 350-900, I booked a business class
Flying short haul economy in Asia can be such an absolute delight. The flight crews are kind, efficient, and professional. There are meals on two-hour flights and they are generally quite good! Many Asian carriers still have their in-flight magazine as well, something of a distant memory for most American and European airlines. For all
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