I recently went to Singapore with sis and when we were looking for hotels, we were shocked to find that almost all the hotels in the little happening island were fully booked for that weekend! Luckily someone she knew managed to get us a room at the Grand Hyatt Singapore which was in the best [...]

“I came, I saw, I conquered” - famous words from the man this hotel is named after and not-so-famous words from a colleague who can’t stop waxing lyrical about Caesars Palace. He recently came back from Las Vegas and couldn’t stop talking about how wonderful this hotel was that in no time at all, I [...]

We stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel Almaty in Kazakhstan. It was one of the best hotels in town and rooms there certainly did not come cheap. It wasn’t as luxurious as the China World Shangri-La we stayed in Beijing but it was still a pretty good room. The duvet was deliciously soft and the bed [...]

Travel isn’t always about nice luxurious hotels. Sometimes you gotta take the really crappy ones to appreciate the good ones better!
We had an overnight transit in Beijing and decided to do our hotel bookings at the airport when we landed. The girls behind the desk were really quite lifeless when we approached them and for [...]