There is nothing better than when you expect to fly in an aging plane’s interior only to find out that the airline has recently refurbished the bird that you will be taking. Such was the case with a recent flight from Seoul to Amsterdam on a KLM 777-200ER. While I have never actually flown the […]
I have been going to Japan for a decade now, but until very recently, I had never made it off the mainland. At the tail end of a month-long trip to the Land of the Rising Sun in November, I decided it was time to I finally check out the country’s tropical paradise, so I
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If you have followed this blog for a while, you will ascertain that I am a fairly seasoned traveler. I’ve been in some hairy situations in my voyages: severe food poisoning in Malawi, potentially kidnapped in the back of a cab in Cairo, and intensely interrogated at passport control in Moscow. Still, I don’t think
A couple of months ago, I had a business trip to Berlin and was surprised by how expensive the hotel rooms were in September. Wanting to stay in the middle of the city, I managed to find a decent rate at the Hilton Berlin, which was under 300 Euros/night compared to some of the other
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As long as I have been going to Japan, I have been enamored by its business hotel brands. Hotel chains such as Super Hotel and Dormy Inn are where I always prefer to stay in Tokyo. Although the rooms are generally small, those hotels are clean, utilitarian and comfortable and I have grown to love
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I have been going to Turkey for years to discover and rediscover the charms of Istanbul. However, given how much there is to see in one of the world’s most famous and fought over cities, before this year, I had never explored any other parts of Turkey with the exception of Cappadocia. In April, I
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When Honolulu is brought up, quite often it is glitzy Waikiki Beach that comes to mind. And for many, staying amid all that hustle and bustle does not sound like a very relaxing prospect for a beach vacation. But about a mile south of Waikiki, on the way to Diamond Head, there is a sleepy
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I was admittedly a little bit late to the Portugal party. My first trip to the country was for work to Lisbon in 2022 and since then, I’ve been back once or sometimes twice every year. Everything that people say about it is true. It’s cheap, the food is outstanding and although there are plenty
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I should start by saying that I have both very fond and very furious memories of my past stays at CitizenM hotels. And very little of it has to do with the actual rooms. During the Covid pandemic, after months of lockdown, my first flight in over a year left out of Amsterdam Schiphol. It
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On a recent work trip, I had a weekend to kill in Phnom Penh. Now, Phnom Penh is not typically a city which many people hit on their visits to Southeast Asia. If they visit Cambodia at all, it is to go to see the temples at Angkor Wat or to the islands. But on
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