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If you’ve logged hundreds of hours in hotels like we have, you’ve likely encountered many of the same (kinda boring) amenities across multiple properties: yoga mats in the rooms; espresso machines; and iPod docks. While we’re always pleased to find these comforts away from home, there are some hotels that really go above and beyond…
Seasoned travelers like to say, “It’s the journey, not the destination.” Sure, it might not feel that way when your flight is canceled, your luggage is lost, and you’re calling an airport Cinnabon “dinner.” (Although we kind of love the idea of the latter…) But when the plane lifts off, and the city below shrinks…
Oyster hotel investigators have visited over 15,000 hotel properties around the world, so we’ve just about seen it all: crazy luxurious suites, creepy sex motels, itsy-bitsy rooms, castle hotels…but that doesn’t mean that every now and then we come across a hotel stay that even we weren’t expecting. From jail cells to ice rooms (yes,…
Photo Credit: Markus Mainka via Shutterstock This story by Avital Andrews originally appeared on SmarterTravel under the title “What It’s Like to Fly on EVA’s Hello Kitty Airplane.“ EVA Air’s Hello Kitty plane, a Boeing 777-300ER, is the brainchild of K.W. Chang, the airline’s chairman. Chang, who started his career as an airport check-in agent,…
Hello Kitty reigns over the beds in the Princess Kitty Room. A mega hotel with more than 1,400 rooms, the upscale Keio Plaza Hotel spans two high-rise towers in Tokyo’s city center. Surrounded by corporate towers near the busiest train station in the world, it’s in a convenient location for business travelers, and has many…
We all have our rituals when we stay in hotels, whether they be indulging on the minibar every time or superstitiously avoiding rooms with “unlucky” numbers. But plenty of hotels have rituals of their own that guests can enjoy during their stays. Of course, many hotels have offerings that have become traditions, like free afternoon…
The 727 Fuselage Home at the Hotel Costa Verde If you stumble upon an airplane in the jungle, you’re either on the set of Lost — or lucky enough to have booked the Fuselage Suite at Hotel Costa Verde in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. A vintage Boeing 727 airframe, once owned by South Africa Air,…
Meow Parlour, the first cat cafe in New York City, got a ton of press — including from The New York Times — earlier this year. But in Asia, cat cafes are de rigueur and have been for some time. Fortunately for traveling cat lovers, Oyster now covers Banilah, a cute hostel in the Chiang…
We’ve never been good at keeping a secret. So we figure there’s no reason to start now… Though these hotels successfully hid passageways behind bookcases, entrances via underground tunnels, and speakeasies by password-protected doors for many years, we’ve cracked the code on their secrets. Get the inside scoop below!
Many of the most iconic hotels in the world are housed in historic buildings — which means they’ve had plenty of time to rack up a story or two. We’ve told you about hotels with storied pasts, but there’s a fine line between what’s storied and what’s plain disturbing. Here we bring you six hotels…