Tag: hotel crashing
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Checking In at The White Lotus
Quick and sharp switch up here: Is anyone watching season 3 of The White Lotus? Man, I love that show. Solving a murder in a luxury hotel? What’s not to love? It’s two of my favorite things. And, as with all things, there has been quite a bit of talk on social media (well, Threads,…
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Trip Report: St. Regis Bali (also, Revisited)
Winter has settled in at the cabin, it gets dark at like, 4:30, and with the holidays and probably snow right around the corner, I thought I’d travel back in time to much warmer days—ie: my ongoing trip report for Southeast Asia. When last I left off, we had just finished the first leg of…
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Hotel Crashing: Mara Bushtops, Kenya
When we went to Bushtops Serengeti a couple of years back, we knew that if we ever got the chance to go to Tanzania again, we’d definitely stay there again and for a much longer amount of time. And, we did. For this trip, we stayed at Bushtops Serengeti for seven nights (Oct. 31-Nov. 8),…
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Wild About Harry, Mara Bushtops’ Giraffe
I have a new boyfriend. His name is Harry and he is a giraffe. It’s ok. My current, longtime, long-suffering boyfriend, XFE knows about him. He’s even met him. And I gotta say….he seems a bit in love with Harry as well. I realize that this is all a bit nonlinear and out of context…
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Hotel Crashing: The Underwater Room, Manta Resort, Pemba Island
There is a place where you can belt out The Little Mermaid’s “Under the Sea” without a lick of irony, a smidgen of skill, or any regard for your neighbors’ eardrums. A place where you can “sleep with the fishes.” Where you literally sleep with fishes darting all around you. Except, if you’re like me,…
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Hotel Crashing: 4 Other Places We Stayed in Sri Lanka
Because I really cannot top our stay (and odd massage experience) at the Signature Amaya Kandalama, I’m condensing (ha!) the rest of our hotel accommodations in Sri Lanka into this one little (ok, NOT little) post. Most of them were one-nighters anyway, with the exception of the beach house in Unwatana. But they each had…
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Hotel Crashing: Signature Amaya Kandalama, Sri Lanka
So here’s a basic outline of our first day (2 days) getting to/and/around Sri Lanka. A 14-hour flight from D.C. to Seoul on Korean Air First Class. A 6-hour layover at the Seoul Airport. An 8-hour flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Land at 3:15 a.m. and meet our driver, Tillie. Drive about 3.5 hours in…
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Hotel Crashing, Bushtops Serengeti, Tanzania
Back when I was a nubile young woman–aka: my broke-as-hell-and-unable-to-afford-any-sort-of-vacation period–my friends and I would often retreat for into the verdant hills of Central Texas and go camping for a couple of days. And believe me, I do mean camping. Not glamping. There wasn’t anything glamorous about it. We’d load up our respective cars and…
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Hotel Crashing: Lemala Kuria Hills, Tanzania
Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I was a bit bummed out by the election results. For a variety of reasons, I’m not going to get too far into this topic, but this post from my favorite blogger, The Everywhereist, pretty much sums up EXACTLY how I feel. Go. Read it. It’s really…
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Hotel Crashing: Leopard Hills Private Game Reserve, South Africa
In case you are wondering, yes, you will definitely see leopards at Leopard Hills Private Game Reserve in South Africa’s Sabi Sands. And a whole lot of other animals, including (if you’re very lucky like we were) the very rare African wild dog. We actually saw three generations of the adorable calico-spotted dogs a…