Singapore Airport Named World's Best for Sixth Consecutive Year
Posted on 03/23/2018, 10:45 AM
In its well-regarded annual ranking of the world's best airports, Skytrax has named Singapore Changi Airport number one for the sixth time in a row. Relying on millions of customer surveys filled out by travelers around the globe, the terminal trackers found the Asian city-state's airport exceptional in its cleanliness, service, shopping, dining, security and customs processing, transit options, an...
Hotel on Skis Debuts in Finland for Northern Lights Viewing
Posted on 03/21/2018, 5:15 PM
A novel way of experiencing the Northern Lights has come to Finland. The new Aurora Wilderness Camp, located near the village of Kilpisjärvi, is comprised of three mobile cabins that have been mounted on skis so that they can be dragged into the remote reaches of the country's Lapland region. And because each unit has a glass roof, guests have a good chance of spotting the Northern Lights from the ...
Play the Casanova at New Museum in Venice
Posted on 03/19/2018, 7:30 PM
Giacomo Casanova belongs to the rare class of historical figures whose names became common nouns. Traitorous World War II-era Norwegian leader Vidkun Quisling and France's lecherous Marquis de Sade (lop off the "e" and add an -ism or an -istic) are in the same crew. It's a curious kind of superstardom where the legend outstrips the life to such an extent that the world often forgets there was ever ...
Makeup Mogul Bobbi Brown Opening Her Own Hotel in New Jersey
Posted on 03/16/2018, 8:30 AM
Makeup designer and skincare expert Bobbi Brown is going from fashionable boutiques to her own fashionable boutique hotel. Known for creating a popular line of understated cosmetics (she later sold the company to Estée Lauder), Brown has teamed up with her husband, developer Steven Plofker, to open The George, a 32-room inn "with modern style and historic bones." In other words, it sort of looks li...
Disney World Now Charges for Parking at Hotels, Decreasing Their Value
Posted on 03/14/2018, 12:00 PM
Update: Disney Parks finally rescinded fees for self-parking at Walt Disney World resorts in January 2023. Click here to read about that.It used to be one of the great courtesies of staying in a Walt Disney World resort hotel: You got free parking, and then you could take Disney transportation for free.It was touted as one of the perks and a big incentive to choose a Disney hotel over a room locate...
New Club Med Openings: Sicily, the Great Wall, and More
Posted on 03/13/2018, 10:30 AM
Club Med has embarked on an ambitious expansion project.The pioneer in all-inclusive resorts plans to add 15 new properties to its worldwide roster by the end of 2020, opening five resorts per year between now and then.Though you might associate Club Med with sunny spots in the Caribbean, major focuses of the company's latest efforts are Asia and the mountains of Europe.Openings scheduled for 2018 ...
"Millennial" River Cruise Brand No Longer Restricted to Millennials
Posted on 03/12/2018, 1:45 PM
U by Uniworld, a new river cruise brand originally restricted to passengers aged 18 to 40—then 21 to 45—has now dropped upper age limits altogether.When the brand's pair of sleek, all-black ships, dubbed simply the A and the B, launch in April, adults of any age can be on board, even if they have memories of watching Nixon's resignation or the last episode of M*A*S*H. In announcing the change, the...
For Tourists, This Is the Last Straw!
Posted on 03/08/2018, 7:00 PM
Last call! More and more, you're going to have to go without drinking straws.Single-use plastic straws are distinctly unkind to wildlife. Fresh straws choke animals. Then each straw is said to take longer than 200 years to break down, and all the while, it disintegrates into ever-smaller and smaller bits that are eaten by small animals, fish, and even plankton. The plastic bits eventually make it b...
Booking.com Introduces New Program for Unusual Stays
Posted on 03/07/2018, 7:30 PM
Unconventional accommodations like treehouses, yurts, and barns have proven popular on vacation rental sites such as Airbnb and HomeAway. For the increasing number of travelers seeking unique, Instagrammable experiences, a night in a castle or on a houseboat has obvious advantages over a run-of-the-mill chain hotel.Now Booking.com, which has an enormous online database of accommodations around the ...
Most Visited U.S. National Parks and Monuments in 2017
Posted on 03/05/2018, 5:45 PM
The National Park Service (NPS) has released its visitor numbers for 2017. A total of 330,882,751 people spent time at American national parks, monuments, and other sites deemed worthy of federal protection.As the NPS points out, that figure is only a smidge lower than the record-setting 330,971,689 visits the agency logged in 2016—the year of its highly touted 100th birthday.The Blue Ridge Parkway...
