Hotels

My husband Joe and I have been married for over 20 years, so it’s been a long, long time since we shared our hotel room with anybody else. But back …

Turning on the lights in a hotel room shouldn’t feel like solving a puzzle. Yet somehow it always does. You flip the switch by the door and—nothing. Well, not nothing, …

When it comes to booking a hotel, you’d think it would be simple: pick the hotel you want and book it. But these days, that’s far from the case. With …

If you live in a small town or are part of any sort of community, everyone knows everyone. If they don’t know each other personally, it’s like a Six Degrees …

First! There’s something in all of us that makes us want to be the first one to do something. It’s human nature, or whatever. The feeling you get knowing you’re …

I have a love/hate relationship with companies that reinvent themselves. I don’t mean like when a Marriott-branded hotel is sold and suddenly becomes a Hilton-branded one. I mean when they’re …

The big brouhaha on the internet for the past several days has been revolving around Delta Air Lines and whether or not it is, or is planning to use artificial …

It’s always fun when you discover something in the travel world that most places don’t have, or only a few offer. We’ve gone over some of them before: Airlines that …

My husband Joe and I have been visiting Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, Texas, almost annually, since around 2006 or so. It’s our “happy place” vacation, where we don’t …

Regardless of where you go, there’s an unwritten (although sometimes it’s indeed written) list of rules – things they should and shouldn’t do – people are expected to follow. Some …