Hampton Inn

For a trip to Massachusetts, we needed to find a hotel near Westport, located about 30 miles southeast of Providence, RI. When looking for hotels outside major cities, your choices…

When it comes to Hilton Honors points, I have an earn-and-burn mentality. I don’t want to keep many of them in our accounts because unless we’re working to a specific…

Anyone who has traveled more than a few times, or just done a really good study of review sites like TripAdvisor, realizes that some hotel chains are simply better than…

On the evening of Saturday, January 29, sixteen people, including a half dozen children, were reported as being found unconscious in the pool area of a Hilton branded hotel in…

Lots of people have TV shows that are guilty pleasures. It could be Jackass, The Price Is Right, Hallmark Christmas movies, or any of those bajillion reality TV shows that…

The purpose of these “look back” posts at the end of the year is two-fold. They give you a reminder about our trips of the past year but more importantly…

I miss Barack Obama as President of the United States. I don’t even mean from a political point of view – seriously, with exceptions here and there, I’ve historically liked…

The Hampton Inn NY-JFK is located just outside of New York’s JFK airport. Choosing an airport hotel can be tough because many of the reviews are from people who were…

If there was ever a time when I was making a first world travel grump, it’s when I’m complaining that I can’t apply for a status match for top tier…

Finding a hotel in Ft. Lauderdale is so frustrating for me. It only takes us about three hours to drive there so we’ll sometimes plan a quick getaway weekend. It’s…