Homewood Suites

Booking directly with a hotel is usually the cleanest option. You earn hotel points, elite credit, credit card rewards and whatever benefits come with your status. But every once in …

I finally had a reason to try the Bilt Travel portal. And honestly, I expected it to be worse. When Bilt first launched its revamped travel portal, I took a …

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 …

We’re on a Hilton kick this year. It’s an accident because we didn’t plan on it. Instead, it was the convergence of earning a free night with the Hilton Surpass …

Ever since hotel chains started offering multiple brands with different personalities, there have been times when several hotels from the same parent company have shared the same development. The first …

While you’d think a global travel meltdown due to COVID-19 would be enough to slow down hotel development, that’s not been the case in Orlando, and in particular around Walt …