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Yoga Deck at the Horizon Ocean View Hotel and Yoga Center in Costa Rica Whether you’re an expert at vinyasas or still mastering Warrior II, yoga is a wonderful practice to take up as it offers numerous health benefits — yogis can gain flexibility, lower blood pressure, reduce stress, and strengthen bones and joints through…
Known for its tropical weather, incredible beaches, and stunning natural scenery, Phuket is one Thailand’s most visited provinces. Flights here may be pricey, but once you arrive you can find over-the-top luxury for much cheaper than what you’d pay for the same stateside, or in the Caribbean. So hop on a plane and get treated…
The costs of a budget motel and a five-pearl luxury resort may not be as drastically different as you think. Actually, they might not be different at all: It all depends on where you are. So, using sample dates August 18 through 21, we searched the globe for hotels that have rates at just $100/night…
It’s a fun job to do what we do at Oyster.com; every day, we add new hotel properties to our site — with comprehensive reviews, hundreds of photos, and dozens of panoramas — so, no matter where you want to go, you can get an accurate picture of just what it’ll be like when you…
Spring is here! The return of the sunny season means vegetables are ripe for the picking, and herbs and flowers are blooming. One of the recent trends we’ve seen across the hotel industry is the use of on-site gardens to produce plants that can then be incorporated into the menus at the properties’ restaurants and…
When Oyster.com launched in June 2009, our young site covered only (albeit extensively) 250 hotels in a limited set of destinations. But today, we are proud to announce that Oyster has reviewed 10,000 hotels — across 76 countries in six continents. That’s a lot, especially when you consider that our investigators visit and photograph each…
When travelers think of Thailand, they often picture backpacking through quaint rural towns and living off a dime (in a totally awesome, coming-of-age kinda way) by doing as the locals do – feasting on rice dish after rice dish, and staying in rustic tree house accommodations. And this is all great when you’re in your…
Throughout our hours and hours of travel and hotel investigating, we’ve come across quite a few photo fakeouts: Situations where the hotel website showed the property as one way, and we found it to be a totally different way when we arrived. Like in the cases of “crowd-free” beaches, “delicious” buffets, and “massive” pools. And…
The Deluxe Pool Access Room at The Kee Resort & Spa The Kee Resort & Spa in Patong is taking a firm (or should we say, plush?) stance against guests who soil or stain their bed linens. Each of the upscale hotel’s beds are made up with fresh white sheets topped with two sleeping pillows…
