Hotels

With mobile apps handling everything from check-in to room keys, in-room phones feel outdated—but U.S. hotels keep them for safety, legal, and operational reasons. It’s the 21st century and people’s …

When you stay at hotels once or twice a year, if that, you’re typically happy with everything you get. A coffeemaker in the room! A lighted magnifying mirror! And OMG, …

Most, if not all of us have our pet peeves. Especially when it comes to hotels. But frankly, we can voice our complaints about I dunno, let’s say “hotel pillows,” …

If you stay at enough hotels – especially ones that are near (or even relatively near) an airport, this may be a familiar scene. Or maybe it’s even happened to …

One of the most charmingly odd things Kimpton does is the secret password. If you’ve stayed at a Kimpton before—or you’ve spent too much time reading about hotel quirks—you probably …

We’ve all been to that hotel that offered something that wasn’t quiiiiiite like what they advertised. That’s where review sites such as Oyster come into play (although Oyster isn’t as …

If you’ve been in the points-and-miles world for any length of time, you already know the game: the goal isn’t just to earn points — it’s to spend fewer of …

Different people have different reasons for where they decide to stay when traveling. It could be cost or distance to whatever they’ve traveled for. Maybe they have status or points …

Save for that one fancy-schmancy resort with a 7-star rating, hotels are generally graded on a five-star rating system. Granted, the rating systems aren’t consistent worldwide. (A project called “World …

Hilton Honors is back with its first promotion of 2026, and—credit where it’s due—they dusted off an older name instead of cycling through the same two titles they’ve been alternating …