Hotel Reviews

Rhotia Valley Lodge was an unexpected outlier during our nine day safari through Tanzania.  I initially thought it was one of those lodges the safari guides throw in the itinerary mix…

When we learned late September is monsoon season in Sri Lanka’s more visited southwest region, it was time to reroute and arrange a new itinerary with new hotels (enter Udekki).  Secretly I…

An Intro to the FX Mayr Spa Have you heard horror stories about the legendary Original FX Mayr Health Center located on the pristine waters of Lake Worthersee  in Austria?…

Would I return to stay at Alila Jabal Akhdar?  No and there is good reason for that even though it has been well featured in a wide variety of veteran travel magazines…

We long to stay in places where we feel secure especially when far from home.  The big chain hotel names provide us a sense of comfort as everything seems a bit familiar…

I wish people would give Sintra the chance it deserves.  When I hear “I need to go on a Sintra day trip from Lisbon“, disappointment takes over me.  Sintra is…

I cannot express enough how incredibly majestic Nyungwe Forest Lodge is.  I don’t want to use the word hotel or lodge, that is an injustice because it is much more than…

Gorilla trekking in Rwanda was my first true bucket list item before I even knew what a bucket list was.  The childhood wish dates back to 1988 when I first…