Hotels

I admit, this sounds like the title of some Hardy Boys Mystery. Before COVID-19, when all of the mini-bars were emptied, the MiniBar Mystery played out endless times in hotels …

While luxury travel suffered a significant hit over the past two+ years, there’s undoubtedly a large amount of pent-up demand. Revenge travel, or whatever you call the current spike in …

The only things guaranteed in life are death and taxes. Hotel room taxes (a.k.a. “hotel occupancy tax,” a.k.a. “hotel accommodations tax,” a.k.a. “local occupancy tax,” a.k.a. “transient occupancy tax,” a.k.a. …

The Citi Prestige is the luxury entry of the Citi ThankYou card family. However, no new applications or product changes have been allowed for the Prestige since mid-2021. If you …

You’ve probably heard about it and I KNOW you’ve experienced it – EVERYTHING is more expensive nowadays. Whatever the reasons – COVID, the Great Resignation, some employers finally offering living …

It’s a question that’s been going on for decades – if you stay overnight at a hotel, how much should you tip hotel housekeeping staff? We intended to find out. …

While our hotel room at the Grand Hyatt Kauai may not be our favorite room ever (that title still belongs to our suite at the Goldener Hirsch in Austria), it …

A 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 …

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 …

Property around Walt Disney World comes at a premium. While Walt Disney managed to scoop up as much of the land around his planned “Florida project” by using shell companies …