Travel Intelligence with Attitude
Of the 5 hotels I stayed in during my January 2015 trip to Talca, Hotel Stella was my favorite. A small boutique hotel shoehorned into a narrow deep lot in a residential neighborhood, Hotel Stella was new, clean, modern, simple and efficient. It was a several blocks walk to the park on Avenido Bernardo Higgins […]
Tucked away in a residential area several blocks west of the Plaza de Armas in downtown Talca B & B Stella Bordestero was a bit hard to find. It was hidden away behind a huge electric metal gate that I was a bit intimidated about approaching. My poor command of Spanish made it difficult to […]
Siem Reap was a surprise on many levels not the least of which was the “Pub Street” area filled with restaurants bars and shops. While a gathering place for locals and visitors alike, establishments did a good job of blending local esthetics with modern conveniences and tourist expectations. One place stood out for it’s “authenticity” […]
No trip to Singapore would be complete without a trip to the iconic Raffles Hotel and it’s famous Longboat Bar to sample a Singapore Sling at it’s birthplace. Though popular history, especially as espoused at the Long Bar, suggests their own bartender created the drink, experts on such matters note “the earliest reference to a […]
We first heard about the Snook Inn when the sales clerk at the local liquor store suggested we might like to visit the Snook for their well priced happy hour. In spite of our robust purchase we were pretty sure he meant no insult when he gave us a business card for a cab service […]
While not really a fan of the TV series “Survivor”, I had been aware that one seasons episodes (2003) had been filmed on one of the obscure islands off the coast of Panama known as the Pearl Islands. Ive been on a lifetime quest to find “my piece of paradise” so any destination that includes […]
I stayed at the Sortis Panama City Hotel and Casino for two nights in July. As a Marriott Gold member I was offered a room upgrade but declined for a room on a higher floor with a better city view. As a gold member I was also offered a complementary continental breakfast. Both days we […]
We had asked for a menu for the Manabi restaurant when we checked into the Sortis Hotel in Panama City Panama but none were available in english so one of the front desk staff called up to to restaurant to have one brought down. My travel companion suffers from very severe allergies to shellfish, mollusk […]
When I stayed at the Eco Hotel in Talca Chile in January of 2015 it was one of the very first new modern “high rise” hotels that had started to pop up in the Avenida Bernardo Higgins area of Talca. Sitting on the south side facing the park, it stood in contrast to the ruins […]