Hotels
One of my favorite places on earth is Bali but when we first arrived we found only two things: Australian partiers and touters. It wasn’t until we got to Amed that the island came to life for us. Long story short, we left our hotel to find some dinner and ate at the little homestay’s restaurant. We got to talking with owner, Made, and I decided to look at the two-room homestay he had just built. It was about $10 a night and nicer than the room I paid...
Read morePriority Club is a strange and fickle beast but when tamed, is the most rewarding program in terms of free nights. Priority Club is the rewards program for the InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG). They give points out like candy and let you redeem them for cheap but the program's benefits are really limited to free nights and often little else.
Best Rate Guarantee
As stated before, IHG has the most lucrative best rate guarantee. If you book a stay on the IHG website and find a cheaper rate on a competitor’s website, you get 1 night free. Yes, even on...
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- The Renaissance Saigon
- Cathay First Class
- InterContinental Hong Kong
- Cathay First Class Lounge
- Park Hyatt Tokyo
The InterContinental Hong Kong is known as one of the finest hotels in the world for one obvious reason among many: location. Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities; tropical islands meet the largest skyline my eyes have seen - even the airport landing is beautiful. The skyline goes forever but the best view of it is seen from across the bay on the Kowloon side. Which is where the InterContinental sits right on the water next...
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- The Renaissance Saigon
- Cathay First Class
- InterContinental Hong Kong
- Cathay First Class Lounge
- Park Hyatt Tokyo
The Renaissance hotels are among my favorite not only for the properties themselves but for their locations as well. Simply put, a good hotel has a good location. In Saigon, District 1 is the place to be and unlike its main competitors, the Renaissance Riverside Saigon is right on the riverside.
My first impression was that it was a bit of a family hotel and I was rather...
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