News and notes from around the interweb: The Uber driver who brings in over $250,000 a year. Yesterday I went on Fox News ‘Happening Now’ talking about Delta pulling its award charts off the website. Expedia is claiming that the strong hotel discount deal that I wrote about this morning — despite having full and […]
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I'll be the first to admit I have a rather odd personality for someone who lives in hotels full time, given my general fear of life. Fortunately I'm selective with my fears:
-- I'm sort of a germaphobe. I have lots of weird habits when I stay at hotels. Fortunately I manage to conveniently overlook many things, like the general nastiness of the sheets, mattresses, chairs, etc.
-- I'm sort of scared of ghosts/life in general. I'm not really scared of dying, I'm not spiritual, and I'm not scared of violent crimes, or anything. That being said, I do occasionally get creeped out by places I perceive to have bad energy. And it's weird because I'm not usually an "energy" person. In other words, I don't usually walk into a place and immediately say "this hotel has good energy" or "this hotel has bad energy." But I do every once in a blue moon get a weird feeling somewhere.
Anyway, I'll be transiting Jakarta soon, and got into a conversation yesterday with a friend about the trip. I mentioned that I'd stay at the Sheraton Bandara, which seemed super convenient, since it's just a couple of miles from CGK Airport. I've always wanted to visit Jakarta, though in this case going into the city didn't seem practical, given that getting into the city can take forever when there's bad traffic.
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As many of you know, my mom and I have been traveling together for almost two weeks. We spent most of it in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Muscat, and Dubai), and yesterday we flew the Emirates A380 from Dubai to Barcelona.
The flight was incredible, and it was a gorgeous day when we landed shortly after noon.
We took a taxi to the W Barcelona, where we'd be staying for one night. We got a suite upgrade, and the staff were top notch (or so we thought). At first this was definitely one of my favorite W properties, along with the ones in Taipei, Guangzhou, etc.
Unfortunately it all went downhill from there. Here's a video my mom made this morning explaining the situation:
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A new app and website has publicly launched today which solves a real travel problem. Hotels By Day lets you book hotel day-use rooms online. The problem: Day rooms are really hard to book. You usually can’t book them online. I’ve booked them occasionally — the Sofitel Heathrow has day space on its website, but […]
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