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Sometimes a hotel is just a hotel — a place to rest your head and freshen up — but other times it’s an airplane with bunk beds or a lighthouse with a hot tub or an igloo with mesmerizing ice sculptures. In other words, there are hotels that are destinations in and of themselves. The…
Flying is one of the safest ways to travel — just take a look at the numbers. According to the IATA, more than three-and-a-half billion people flew safely on 37.6 million flights in 2015. And while there were fatal crashes, 2015 also happened to be the safest year in aviation history. That being said, it’s…
No one will fault you for taking the more traditional tourist route to sightseeing in Dublin, but when you’re done exploring St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Kilmainham Gaol Museum, and the Guinness Storehouse, take a journey to see the city’s quirkier, less visited attractions. Care to see Napoleon’s toothbrush or stroll through a car park to…
We all know that breaking a mirror, walking under a ladder, and watching a black cat cross the street supposedly bring years of bad luck, but did you know that you must pack a garlic clove in your suitcase unless you want your vacation to be doomed? Much like language, cuisine, and one-of-a-kind attractions, superstitions…
Imagine that you have 15 hours to see Istanbul, thanks to a bizarre layover on a last-minute ticket to Milan from New York City (logistics, be damned — you saw that flight deal and just went with it). Or, being the intrepid adventurer that you are, you decided to work a whirlwind Reykjavik weekend into…
At the B Historic hotel in Savannah, the hotel manager doubles as a “ghost bouncer,” orchestrating ghost tours and haunted pub crawls for guests. Hilton Los Cabos employs a popsicle concierge to distribute icy treats and towels by the pool. And The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans not only has a snowball sommelier on its payroll, but…
It seems business or pleasure are the only options travelers are given when defining the reasoning behind their trips, but motivations for travel aren’t always so crystal-clear. In fact, more and more travelers are going on pilgrimages, to very specific destinations, for reasons that don’t fall anywhere near the classic brackets of leisure or work-related.…
Photo by Rob via Flickr Ahhh, cruising. It’s what white linen pants were made for. Often billed as massive, all-inclusive, floating hotels, cruises are an easy set-it-and-forget-it-type of vacation. You buy your tickets, show up, and everything — heaping buffets, various forms of entertainment and social activities, thumping clubs, saltwater pools with slides, kids’ clubs,…
Cheeky decor at the cheekily named Clink78 in London Hotels come in all shapes and sizes but the intriguing ones are often those with hidden (and not-so-hidden) former “lives.” And what better makes a storied past than a former self as a prison? Let’s face it, there’s just something about the idea of spending the…
Although amusement parks are believed to have existed in some form since the Middle Ages, it wasn’t until the Victorian Era that these fun and sometimes-freaky attractions began to really take off, thanks to the invention of rides such as roller coasters and the Ferris wheel. Two World Wars and the Great Depression saw the…