With Covid less of an issue, more and more people are traveling. However, as travelers travel, they’re discovering changes: Attractions that couldn’t survive closing up shop for extended periods of…
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Food & Beverage
Iconic Hilton Bar & Restaurant Set To Close Later This Week
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegMost, if not all higher-end Hilton hotels have a restaurant and/or bar in them. Having an eatery (or drinkery…you see what I did there?) on site is actually one of…
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Lounges
SFO’s American Express Centurion Lounge Has Temporarily Closed
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegEffective today, September 6th, the American Express Centurion Lounge at San Francisco International Airport has temporarily closed. The closure is for a good reason, though – it’s reportedly going to…
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Sometimes you’re in an airport and wonder, “What the hell is something like THAT doing here?” The iconic 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport is a great example, especially…
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New York City
Final List: NYC Hotels Permanently Closed Due To COVID
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegA little more than a year, ago, we posted a list of the (then) 18 hotels in New York City that had permanently closed due to COVID. These weren’t “on…
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During the height of the COVID pandemic, especially during the early days, every county handled the virus in its own way when it came to travelers who wanted to visit.…
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Y’all, I gotta tell ya – I love London. It’s one of my most favorite “big” cities in the world, right up there with Sydney, New York and Chicago. Joe…
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The Omicron variant of COVID has been designated as a “variant of concern” by the WHO. That designation makes it the World Heath Organization’s most serious of a Coronovirus variant.…
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Disney, Universal & Other Theme Parks
Once Popular Orlando Theme Park Sold; Space To Become Health Facility
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegUntil the mid-1960s, Orlando was a sleepy little town with not a whole lot going on. Then Walt Disney World was announced and within a few years, Central Florida was…
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Travel
First COVID, Then Monkeypox, Now The Plague?! (a.k.a. Don’t Go Here Right Now)
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegPlague infected rodents in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was not on my 2021 apocalypse BINGO card. How about yours? I guess plain ol’ COVID wasn’t enough; we had to have…