Free In-Room Hotel Coffee: A Right Or Privilege?

I'm rarely in one timezone for more than a few days, so I'm often asked how I deal with jetlag. The answer is coffee. Lots and lots and lots of coffee. All day. Every day.

That's why I write quite a bit about hotel coffee. When you're jetlagged and constantly in different timezones, you notice the oddities of how different hotels approach coffee.

Some hotels offer crap in-room coffee.

Some offer good in-room coffee.

And some offer coffee in the lobby.

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Top 10 surf spots for in Hawaii

Not a surfing god? It's okay. Here are the best places for mortals like yourself to surf in Hawaii.



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6 Discoveries from Near and Far: Volume XXVIII

I. Around the World Things I found on long walks in foreign cities, or perhaps when someone posted them on Twitter. Routines of Famous Creative People (Interactive Version) — How different artists and writers worked, partied, and sometimes even slept An Insanely Simple 3 Step Guide For Killing Procrastination — How to schedule your most…



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Hacking My Way into an Airport Lounge for Free

Leaving Mobile, Alabama I decided to visit the Mobile Airport Authority Executive Lounge. That’s one readers of my lounge reviews might not have been expecting. Of course, I didn’t even realize that the Mobile, Alabama airport had a lounge. Let alone that it’s free, if you know how to access it. This is an airport-run […]

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How to impress your girlfriend while traveling

Ready to have your heart warmed? This video is so sweet!



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EVA Air 747 Retirement Video

Airlines are slowly retiring the gas-guzzling queen of the skies, the Boeing 747 (the pretty ones are always the thirstiest, eh?).

As an aviation geek it's tough to not get at least a little bit sentimental about it. Many of us grew up flying the 747 and associate many of our first longhaul journeys with the plane, so seeing them slowly scrapped and dumped in the desert is like losing an old friend.

The only good thing about 747 retirement is that we seem to get a cool "farewell" video from each airline whenever it happens.

Most recently, EVA Air has posted a 747-400 farewell video on YouTube:

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Storm Clouds Over the Rocky Mountains in Kananaskis Country, Alberta

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Storm Clouds Over the Rockies in The Kananaskis Region of Alberta

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Natives in the Hot Afternoon Namibian Sun

What I think About Bird Photos I recently gave this fairly useless critique to Cat Burton inside the Arcanum. Below this quote, I put one of my own photos, which I do not really think of as a bird-photo, but as a weird-photo. It’s a good photo. Here’s my somewhat useless analysis, being a non-bird-photographer. […]



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Why you should think twice before reclining your airline seat

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When Frequent Flyer Fraud Units Go Off the Rails

I’ve written before about how to deal with the ‘worst case scenario’ of having your frequent flyer account locked for suspected fraud. There are times, though, that even I’m vexed. Airlines and hotel programs see ‘loyalty program fraud’ as a bigger issue than ever before — whether it’s simply breaking the rules of a program […]

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Airlines Will Miss Initial Rush to Cuba

The United States has eased its restrictions on going there, but letting carriers set up regular flights is another matter.

















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Larry David Chimes In On Living In Hotels

I find Larry David to be one of the funniest guys out there, and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is possibly my favorite sitcom of all times.

Larry David was on Letterman recently to discuss his new gig on Broadway. He's living in hotels during that time, and has some pretty funny commentary on it. Check it out:

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Airlines Are Really Financial Trading Firms Taking Big Risks in Commodities Markets

Modern airlines are really transportation system, and part financial trading firm. And sometimes they’re more of the latter than the former. Since fuel is a huge part of the cost structure of an airline, and one that’s highly variable, one can make the case for locking in a price. But that’s another way of saying […]

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Which Airlines Offer the Coolest Amenity Kits?

There are a lot of ways in which airlines try to outdo one another. One of these is via amenity kits offered to premium cabin passengers on long-haul flights, even if it is hard to envision anyone ever opting to fly with a particular airline simply because of an amenity kit. The first amenity kits […]



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