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Resort fees have spread like a plague throughout the travel industry but once in a while, they’re actually worth it. At the Waikoloa Beach Marriott, where I’ve been staying as their guest for two days this week, the $25 resort fee not only gives you two Mai Tais and free internet to get the party…
It’s about to get a little more rewarding to be a GlassHole… Stanford Court, a boutique hotel on San Francisco’s Nob Hill, is offering a free cocktail, beer, or glass of wine if you have the indecency to wear Google Glass inside their doors. All you have to do (assuming you’re the idiot who wears…
Blackberry Farm is a culinary utopia with 4,200 acres in the foothills of the Appalachians in Tennessee and their own bakery, butcher shop, salumeria, dairy, and more. Trek Travel aims to create a cyclist’s utopia, creating bike-riding vacations all over the world. What do you get when you combine them? The Great Smoky Mountain/Blackberry Farm…
If you’ve been to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles inside the L.A. Live complex in Downtown LA, you’re either (a) a wealthy individual who knows the joy of staying at a Ritz and can afford their room rates or (b) you went to WP24, the neo-Asian fine dining restaurant from Wolfgang Puck on the 24th…
Reddit keeps me up-to-date on the latest and greatest on the Internet and a regular feature on the site is the AMA, which stands for Ask Me Anything. Essentially, somebody interesting offers to do a Q&A. Today, it was Jerry Seinfeld and while he doesn’t answer every question posed to him, he did answer the…
Whether you’re hitting Palm Springs for a weekend away, the Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival in March, or the annual hipsters-in-the-desert extravaganza that is April’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (the kids just call it Coachella), it’s always nice to know a good meal isn’t far away. Thanks to Ecuadorean-American chef Jose Garces…
