This is Andy, and this will be the first in a series of reviews from me and my family’s recent trip to Vietnam! Here is what I will be reviewing over the next several weeks: –Intercontinental Hanoi –Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort part 1 and 2 –Park Hyatt Saigon –Conrad Hong Kong …
This is Andy again, and this will be the last post detailing our winter ski trip to Hokkaido. I’d initially booked the Sheraton Kiroro resort for four nights, but then I realised our flight on ANA back to HND, then onwards to Okinawa, left at 0730. As I mentioned in our last post, it takes…
Hey gang, this is Andy. I think I’m going to start prefacing posts with who is writing, so you don’t think BG Goddard is simultaneously jet-setting all around the world while also living in Japan. After our so-so stay at the Intercontinental Tokyo The Strings, we boarded a mid-morning award flight from Haneda (HND) (booking…
Over New Year’s Eve, my family and I decided to take a skiing vacation to Hokkaido. I’ve heard amazing things about the powder there, and also about the ski instruction for little kids there, including in English. My 5 year old son has never been skiing, so I wanted to introduce him there. It is…
Here is a guest post this week from Leo from flight.Speak.net A portion of this post originally appeared on January 13th, 2016, at blog.flightSpeak.net. His military fatigues stood out in a grumpy set of travelers like someone wearing a tuxedo at a pool party. We were both waiting for the same flight, and as crowded…
Last Fall, my family and I took a small vacation to Guam, our favorite little island in the world. We wanted to stay on the beach along the main drag in Tumon, although a chain hotel wasn’t our first choice. We were hoping to check out some Airbnb places, but all the good ones seemed…
First of all, I’d like to apologize for not posting in a while – I’ve been on deployment with predictably slow internet. Thankfully, BG Goddard has been knocking out the posts. Since I’m home for a while, it’s time I get back into the saddle! I’ve got a ton of reviews upcoming over the…
Lots in the news lately about Marriott trying to acquire Starwood and now a Chinese company coming in to steal them away with a better offer. I have witnessed a lot of industries merge and when one pair does it to get larger all the others feel they need to merge to get equally large…
Many readers buy and use gift cards to make minimum spend or just to get some discount that is being offered. However, you need to be aware of scams and thieves out there who want to take advantage of your habits. Thieves record the gift card information and then call the toll-free number in a…
Maybe you’re tired of hearing about my adventures in Panama, but I have one last post that I really wanted to share. We took a day trip across the isthmus to the Atlantic side of the country and went along the coast to Portobelo. This town and Nombre de Dios are the towns the Spanish…
