West Side Hotel

... "What the heck do I do over there?" As a true Gemini, I alternate my time between luxuriating in a 5 star hotel and trekking in primary rainforest with my multicultural group of friends...a bunch of friendly, adventuresome, locals..all professionals (drs ...

... pearls. Sunset from atop the guest house deck. I love this house in Bahama Village (the town's historically African-American west side). As you know, I love ecclesiastical architecture– and the more stained glass, the better. Not for me your ...

... cab over to the Pilsen in the Lower West Side of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighbourhood made up of varied residential sections of the Lower West Side community one of which is the Mexican quarter, the area I was keen to see.   We tried explaining to the ...

... the morning collecting info on ferries to mainland, etc. By noon, I take a bus to San Antonio, the second major resort town on the West side of the island. It is 40 minutes. The bus system here works well. It turns out that where Mallorca was a resort for ...

... . We made a reservation at Seven Fishes, but couldn't get in until 9:20pm. So once we were ready we headed to Karen and Harry's hotel the La Concha for drinks before dinner. When we got to Seven Fish they suggested that they do the cobia in a light dijon ...

... driving a mere 50 kilometers can take you the entire day. Our stay in the PTDC (Pakistan Tourist Development Corporation) Hotel was comfortable. These government owned hotels are always well located and offer mid-range but good and reliable service. ...

... U2, Mundy, Paddy Casey, Keane, Snow Patrol, more of The Killers - you name it! The drive to Key west is mainly crossing bridges with ocean on either side of the road! Storm Arlene is further south of Key West but the sky is black, some heavy showers ...

... bad part was driving home.  As we were the only two leaving to go back to Kootoomba that night(everybody else stayed at the local hotel), he told us to go slow as there was a lot of wildlife around there.  That wasn't going to be a ...

This hotel was being prepared for the beginning of the Palestinian conference, the 6th in 60 years. It was OK for $50 per night, and was the first one we found all on our own, without the help of our friends in Petra.  The airconditioning was very ...

... of some evenings, when I was roasting in front of the coal fired bukhari in the living room of yet another fantastic hotel, run by the loveliest little Tibetan family. This living room is also the reason why I stayed in Darjeeling for the remainder of my ...

... . Brugge is a beautiful old town that Jon had visited about 10 years ago.  We got there at 11am and checked in to our hotel.   First time staying in a hotel and Maddy was impressed.  A pool, restaurant and a card to open the door!  We ...

... not on booking sites, but in real life.  This one’s no big deal; I suspect it used to be a ‘real’ hotel back in the days when every little town had at least one hotel on the town square.  Sometimes hostels are little more than ...

... the night out on my deck. Day 2 (Thurs) For today I had booked the half day sail/kayak with Danger Charters. I left the hotel around 8am, so that I’d have time to pick up a muffin at Damn Good Food. The cappuccino chocolate muffin was really ...

... ;        Being in-the-know FL residents, Matt and I waited to book our annual Key West trip until mid-May when hotel rates declined to a fraction of what they once were a week or two prior.  Key West has a wide ...

... it's bad press you would know was once the capital city, looks interesting. (Delhi did not become capital until 1912). The hotel in West Bengal really is in a converted fort (built 18th century (1783) and later headed up by the rather austere looking ...

... to open up to valleys the closer you get to Grant Village and the caldera boundary. We bypassed our hotel and went right to the West Thumb Geyser Basin. West Thumb is one of the less frequented geyser basins because it is on the eastern side of ...

... morning – the huge, delicious breakfast and ice-cold water helping us to feel human again. As we had a hotel arranged in Miami we decided to leave Key West in the mid-morning and drive up to Miami sooner rather than later. So we took the roof off ...

... are just big fans of their ring tones in this part of the world and wish everyone to share their excitement. I don’t. Our hotel room has a number of channels which enables me to watch loads of the World Cup. At the minute I’m watching NZ rip ...

... asking what errands are there on a trip like this?  Well--we updated the travelogue.  We also had to find a new hotel to spend Thursday and Friday.  Finding places to stay have been the single most difficult thing to do on this trip.  ...

... 't just order the FAAABUULLOOUUUSSS! (too bad, that would have been great) So yeah, afterwards we walked a few blocks to a nearby hotel to see a drag show. That was pretty interesting. The man was named Randy and he did a pretty decent job. Hahaha his ...

30.9.06 Malda, West Bengal, India Beautiful Golden Park Hotel We were up early because the bed was so uncomfortable. There was no top sheet, so I'd folded mine in half lengthways to cover me from the blowing of the noisy ceiling fan. The mattress ...