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Accor's New-Concept 'Millennial' Hotels: 'Revolutionizing' Travel?
French company Accorhotels is launching JO&JOE, a new hotel concept it says is 'disrupting' traditional hotel codes and 'reinventing' the hotel experience in design, food&beverage, service and lifestyle, blending 'the best of private-rental, hostel, and hotel formats for solo, groups, pairs or family 'tripsters'. A lot of jargon, but what does it mean for travelers? JO&JOE hotels are...
Read More »The Villa Experience: Dream Vacations for Every Lifestyle
Where Exclusive Meets Inclusive It was to be a family celebration like no other. Cousins grown apart would come together. Friends, that were like family, co-mingling with blood relatives. Aunts and uncles living across the country would cross yet another country to reunite. Grandparents who wanted nothing more than to spoil all of their babies all at...
Read More »Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Makes 5-Star Award History
Business, leisure luxury hotel brand earns more Forbes 5-Star Ratings in a single year than any other hotel brand. 2017 is a banner year for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. It marks the second consecutive year the hotel brand, loved by fans of luxury travel, has topped Forbes Travel Guide ratings with a record number of Five-Star...
Read More »Celebrate Music and Modern Architecture in Hamburg
The landmark, modernist Elbphilharmonie, designed by 'starchitects' Herzog & deMeuron, has opened its doors January 11, 2017. The complex adds three world-class concert halls, a hotel, and a public area with a panoramic view to the city famously associated with the music of Mahler, Brahms and the Beatles. Hamburg is Europe's second largest port. It handles large, ocean-going...
Read More »How to Eat Like the Irish on St.Patrick's Day
A foodie exploration of Ireland is an island-wide adventure involving the favorite Irish pastimes of eating, drinking and socializing – from cafés and pubs, to stylish Michelin-starred restaurants. In the 'Emerald Isle', food is intimately connected to the rich green landscape, regional farming and cooking traditions, the freshest seasonal ingredients and supremely talented food-meisters who magically inject...
Read More »The Lawn Club by Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises' lawn club is one of a kind. We're the first and only cruise line to offer a lawn of real grass on the top deck of our Solstice Class ships, designed exclusively with your relaxation and enjoyment in mind. On a sunny day, it's perfect for taking a picnic and wiling away the afternoon...
Read More »Save Time and Money with Pleasant Holidays!
Pleasant Holidays, a leader in the leisure travel industry since 1959, specializes in package vacations that can save travelers hundreds of dollars. The company works with major airline, hotel, cruise and car rental suppliers, bundling up a bevy of exclusive offers that cannot be booked anywhere else into vacation packages that can be customized to suit...
Read More »Montreal Celebrates 375th Anniversary with a Year of Music
5 Can't Miss Music Events in Montreal in 2017 from Leonard Cohen to Pink Floyd Opera to an Electronic Music Parade. On May 17, 1642, a small colony called Ville-Marie was founded by a small group of 50 explorers from France. The little colony would soon be known as Montreal and 375 years later, a city of...
Read More »May the Luck o’ the Irish Be Always With You
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day Worldwide St. Patrick. Everyone knows him as the patron saint of Ireland—one with a personal history as interesting as the craic you’d find in any fine Irish pub. His story begins with a kidnapping. He was taken by pirates from his native Great Britain as a child, and after several years of slavery, managed...
Read More »Now Boarding! Family Fun
A hot new batch of cruise ships are proving to be destinations in their own right Just like your family, cruising is always changing and evolving, introducing new out-of-this world ships, along with new innovative amenities catering to families of all sizes and ages. If you’re planning a family cruise for the very first time, or if...
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