Thursday, September 16, 2010

Hotel of the Day - Figueroa Hotel, Los Angeles


Time to Fez up!! For the most whimsical Moroccan' roll fantasy, water your camel at the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles. After a night in the Casablanca suite, you'll definitely want Sammy to play it again!
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30 of the World's Best Bars

Chameaux au point d'eau - Camels at water hole - 2Image by fbouf_2000 via Flickr30 of the World's best bars - one fantastic watering hole for each day of the month. Please let me know if you have been to any of these fine establishments and what your two cents is on the experience.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Hotel of the Day - Jakes, Jamaica

Boutique chic shack, Jakes in Jamaica is THE place to hole up between bouts of reggae, finger lickin jerk bbq and spiced rum!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Eco Season Package in the Maldives

Fishing in the MaldivesImage via Wikipedia

I love any special offer that gets me free nights, but this package from Soneva Resorts in the Maldives is even more special. The Eco Season Package at both Soneva Fushi by Six Senses and Soneva Gili by Six Senses encourages responsible tourism and allows you to take part in the amazing initiatives Six Senses Resorts are undertaking in the Maldives.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

Trufflepig: no green eggs and a lot of ham

The best vacations are like a BLT sandwich...if your ideas are the tomato and your partner weighs in with the lettuce, I suggest letting Trufflepig bring on the bacon!

Trufflepig, a tiny travel company with a big nose. For real, authentic, characterful and quirky...

Thursday, July 29, 2010

McMenamins

I love Scotch, I love cigars (and I can sit through the poetry if there is enough Scotch).

If you do too and you're in Oregon on the 11th August, check out the Robert Burns Scotch and Cigar Dinner event at Edgewater, a McMenamins Hotel.

McMenamins

Monday, July 26, 2010

Ferrari World, yep you read it right...

At noon on the 28th October 2010, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will throw open it's doors and take the chequered flag as the World's largest indoor theme park.
The huge gleaming red structure looks like a giant, sunburnt starfish on a windshield (if starfish could fly) and will be sure to attract all of the World's many Ferrari fans, although I doubt any of them actually own a Ferrari.

The designers must have really scratched their heads to come up with more than a series of Ferrariesque rollercoasters and some souped up dodgems, but I cannot wait to see it!!

Grab the guys, ditch the wives and check out the perfect boy's getaways...

Sometimes we just need to get away from the wives and shoot the breeze with the guys. Right? Well, why not think bigger than your local Hooters? Check out these ideas for when you wanna through your name away in glorious anonymity...remember to keep money for bail!

Singapore Grand Prix 24th - 26th September 2010
The World's only night race through the city streets of Singapore. Screaming engines, smoke, F1 girls and bottomless Singapore Slings.
New Majestic Hotel

Hong Kong Sevens 25th - 27th March 2011
Babes, beer, broken bones, more babes and even more beer. Work on your war stories and brush up on your rugby jargon. Could that scar from an old wart be from a gouging incident in a loose ruck?

The Black Crowes live at the Borgata, Atlantic City, 30th October 2010
Put it all on Black and let it ride!

Saddle up dudes! Get your posse down to the Triple Creek Ranch, Montana
Is cow tipping legal in Montana?

more later...

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Favorite New York hotel

Have been watching Mad Men lately and am loving the early 60's.
What a time to live!
Cadillacs, Monroe, JFK, the birth of television and classic cocktails in leathery hotel bars with beautiful woman in polka dot chiffon dresses and fake beauty spots.

My favorite hotel in New York is a charming, whimsical, antique gem on East 76th Street called the Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel.

Antique elevators with real doormen, Bemelman's Bar, Woody Allen in the Carlyle Cafe...move over Don Draper, I want an Old-Fashioned with Betty.