Whether you just show up or book online always check the room before handing over the cash. Here’s why: But the lobby’s nice… Don’t get stuck with the smelly room with broken shower head and lop-sided bed. All hotels have these. Bargain… See what you are getting and then negotiate rate based on quality ,Continue reading “Things to do before checking in to a Budget Hotel – Hotel Tip”
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Eat, Sleep and Meet: Ways to get the most out of Travel
A traveler moves away from being a common tourist to one who actually is an actively taking part in daily life of a foreign land. Many people go on trips that just end up being type where you roam around like sheep and view the sites as if in a zoo peering though the plexiglass. This experienceContinue reading “Eat, Sleep and Meet: Ways to get the most out of Travel”
Best Budget Spa Trip in Japan: Beppu Sand Spa
It’s 7:15am on a monday morning (weekend after spring-back daylight savings to boot) and I’m be-gowned and getting conveyed into the tomb or otherwise known as an MRI machine. I know, what does a MRI have to do with any trip to the spa to relax? I guess it was a combination of what IContinue reading “Best Budget Spa Trip in Japan: Beppu Sand Spa”
Hostels…nothing like the movie
It seems like when I talk to many I know back home about my travels they always have a negative opinion about the usual things. The one of the biggest ones are why we enjoy staying in a hostels. I wonder if this having to stay in one is sometimes what intimidates people from gettingContinue reading “Hostels…nothing like the movie”
A little slice of paradise
wo years ago this week my husband and I we stuck in Phuket, Thailand. For most being stuck in a tropical resort beach with nothing to do but looking at naked Europeans and ladyboys playing volleyball in 70-80’s F temperatures is heaven. For us it was just killing time and itching for something withContinue reading “A little slice of paradise”
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