Review of Hotels

My wife and I stayed at the Conrad Bora Bora the week after ThanksGiving 2019 for four days (since we used the Citi Prestige card to make our reservations, we got four nights for the price of three (minus taxes and things). We had booked the cheapest room there (a King Lagoon View suite) but got upg

After finishing my work meeting in Lisbon, my wife and I rented a car and drove down to the south of Portugal to explore the Algarve region. And made this hotel our base. It is pretty much western and southern most point of continental Europe. And of the rare places where you can see both a sunset a

We stayed for a couple of day at the Eurostars Museum Hotel in Lisbon in late Sep. This is right by the river (a block away with a building between the hotel and the riverfront). We booked a simple doubleroom (with no view) and we got upgraded to a suite (with no view). The lobby is small but reaso

My wife and I spent four nights at the Spa Village resort in Tembok, Bali in Nov (the week of US ThanksGiving) in 2018. This was our third visit to the resort, so obviously, we like going there! Reservations We have the Citi Prestige credit card, which gives the fourth night free, so we used that t

My wife and I stayed at the Metropole Hotel in Brussels in Sep 2018. The following are some thoughts about our stay. Recommendations and Reservation We chose the Metropole based on recommendations at Frommer's and Lonely Planet. Price seemed decent (Brussels isn't a particularly expensive play to s

In ThanksGiving 2019, my wife and I flew to Tahiti to spend 4 nights in Moorea and another 4 nights in Bora Bora. Expected Bora Bora to be more exotic so elected to stay in Moorea first. Moorea can be reached from Papeete by ferry but we booked a flight on Air Tahiti to get there (since we had to fl

We had a corporate event here at the end of Sep so stayed here for four nights. Decent hotel with decent facilities (including a small workout room in the basement). The room was decent (I guess large by European standards), carpeted and a decent view of some parts of Lisbon. My main beef was with t

My wife stayed at the Kayon Resort on the second leg of our Bali trip over the 2018 ThanksGiving break. While we’ve visited Ubud many times before, we had not stayed there so specifically sought out a nice place there. We Googled “best places to stay in Ubud” and cross checked places there with fi

This is a brief review of the Doubletree in Amsterdam Central. The hotel is close to the main train station in Amsterdam (where international trains arrive and you can catch the train to the airport). However the entrance is at the other end of the hotel to the train station, needlessly extending th