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W Hotel, Montreal Quebec
I'd spent too long in the USA, and I wanted a quick weekend getaway. Montreal has been on my list a long time, and Ws are another group of hotels I like to experience. Some great, some interesting, and some make you wonder how they are even a W anymore. So, of course, I b ...
Qantas International Business Class Lounge, Singapore
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Hilton London Hyde Park
I was finally able to reasonably get back to London in March of 2022 based on their new rules at the time for fully vaccinated individuals, to attend some events for International Woman's Day with some institutions I belong to over there. It was a long trip and I was rate sh ...
Montreal Botanical Gardens
Founded in 1931, helped along by years of campaigning by local Friar Marie-Victorin, it drew in Henry Teuscher - a fairly well known Quebec landscape artist - and the first buildings were designed by an architect I can't find any info on, so I'll leave his name out. Yeah, ...
Artist Residence, Penzance Cornwall
I took a trip down to Penzance to meet up with a friend of mine who lives there. I was told that in the town of Penzance, there is only one location for a proper gentleman to stay, and that is the Artist Residence. It's affiliated with Hyatt, so I was able to boo ...
Travel Club Domestic Lounge, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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YouTube Video - JW Marriott Nara
Sheraton, Zagreb
While traipsing through more of Europe I hadn't visited, I was making a plan to do a car/train ride from Croatia to the other Balkan states. Well, seems trains are pretty messed up, and renting a car was a challenging prospect as I wanted to do a one way down to Athens. Nobody wou ...
Zagreb Archaeological Museum
First off, it was named the National Museum when this was part of the Austrian Empire in 1836 and was housed in the State Academy Mansion in a square I cannot find on any map, go figure. In 1866, it was renamed to the State Institute of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, b ...
Waldorf Astoria, Chicago
I had a free night expiring from one of the various credit cards I have (I have ones specialized for each property group just to earn more points) and then a pile of more points I never used in Hilton, and I was easily able to grab two nights at the Waldorf Astoria in Chicag ...
Asuka International Lounge, Osaka Japan
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Hilton Kuala Lumpur
I've had a few short layovers in Kuala Lumpur, and although there are a series of amazing hotels in the city, a lot take a while to get to. I don't feel it's worth it for just one night, so I choose convenience. The one I find the easiest to get to and most well located is the K ...
Sir Walter Scott Monument
This is a large impressive gothic monument made of pink sandstone (black now from coal exhaust over the last 100+ years). It was created for Scottish national treasure Sir Walter Scott who invented the genre of historical fiction. Because of his high station in life, he wr ...
Hilton Okinawa Sesoko Resort
While in the Kansai area of Japan, on an extended, but failed, mission to try to photograph the legendary fall colors (fall was many weeks delayed this year and I had to be back in USA), I found myself with some free time.
I was looking around the area to see if there we ...
Concordia Domestic Lounge, Surabaya Indonesia
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Hilton Osaka
Ok, spending a week or two in Osaka, well, Rob gets bored in one hotel and was looking for something with maybe a little higher experience. There was quite reasonable rates at the Hilton Osaka, and its location at the main train station with access to the airport and everywhere, did no ...
Cloud Nest
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Hilton Kyoto
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So I took a bus from the Kansai airport way down in Osaka Bay, and then a taxi from there to the Hilton Kyoto. I had found it as a newer property, and well, it was fall color season ...
JAL Diamond Premiere Lounge, Okinawa
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JW Marriott, Nara
I purposefully searched out for an JW Marriott's in the Kansai region. It had been a while since I updated my global list (I have a thing for JW's and I purposefully look for them). I found that to the east in the original capital of the Japanese Empire, Nara, there is a newer JW ...
Australian Museum, Sydney
This place was talked about and thought about for years. I'll bypass all of that because it wasn't super material to it actually starting in 1827. (Which is super old especially for an active penal colony? Kinda crazy)
From originally housing collections in an office of th ...
Hilton Surfers Paradise Resort
I was purposefully going back to Surfers Paradise because I wanted to rollerblade the ocean path. I had already stayed at the JW, but I needed more things for people to know about, so I found a good rate at the Hilton Surfers Paradise Resort and booked a few nights t ...
JAL Sakura Lounge, Osaka Japan
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Governors Lodge, Norfolk Island, Australia
I am chasing my great uncle's world travel record, and it's quite a task to visit everywhere. While I was in Australia, I was checking out the 4 territories that are part of the official list. Of all of them, only Norfolk Island was reasonable in cost at ...
Nagai Botanical Garden, Osaka
The gardens were built in Nagai Park in 1974, which is in the south part of Osaka. There are over 1,000 trees which is its primary focus, but also has major seasonal floral installations.
And that's all the info I have! Wiki fail, people.
Anyways it was a last-minute ...
YouTube Video - JW Marriott Dubai
Lounge Kansai, Osaka Kansei Airport
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Marriott Resort, Miri Malaysia
While arranging to visit various places on the Century Travelers Club world list, I noticed that Borneo is segmented into 4 places. Two for Malaysia, one for Indonesia and one for Brunei. I had a few days of open commitment for my trip and started looking for reasona ...
Kyoto Railway Museum, Japan
With trains being such a vital part of the Japanese island and culture, as far back as 1967 they were looking at creating a museum to the railway in an old roundhouse in Kyoto at the Umekoji Depot. The president of Japanese National Rail was even involved, and in 1972 th ...
Chase Sapphire Lounge, La Guardia, New York
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Kingston, Norfolk Island
The area was first recorded in 1774 by Captain Cook on his second world voyage. After his return, sharing knowledge of the island, an expedition set out from Australia with convicts to "settle" the island. This was a fairly common practice at the time as punishment for min ...
Ritz Carlton Langkawi
I had found this place accidentally while searching around Asia for resorts, and despite having a friend who is native Malaysian, I had never heard of Langkawi. After some research I found it is basically the Malaysian Smokey Mountains, the park/nature/tourist location most vi ...
Doubletree, Kyoto Station
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I took a taxi from the previous hotel, because Kyoto, while walkable, is not bag-carrying walkable and the subway was strange to me, so yeah, anyways, taxi.
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YouTube Video - JW Marriott Surabaya Indonesia
W Hotel, Bangkok
I was already supposed to be back from Vietnam (a failed trip attempt of epic proportions) so I had the W Bangkok already booked, and I used some of my upgrade nights (a Bonvoy status award option) to try for a marvelous suite.
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B Bar, Osaka
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National Museum, Bangkok
Established in 1874 by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V, considered the greatest king of Thailand) to show his father King Mongkut's collection of items. They were housed in the former palace of the vice king (typically the brother of the reigning king), near the current royal pal ...
West Curio Collection, Sydney
As part of my trip through Australia, I was in Sydney for the last few days before flying home and wanted to check out a different hotel. Luckily, I found a really attractive rate at the West Hotel near, well basically everything. This area by Darling Harbor is much m ...
Le Meridien, Kuala Lumpur
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I was only originally planning on staying one night in Kuala Lumpur before I went over to Vietnam, but I had waited too long to apply for a visa and nothing cle ...
The Wing First Class lounge by Cathay
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Marriott Sydney
While on a trip to Australia to see some unvisited locations and honestly because it was a ridiculously cheap first-class round trip flight, I needed a few spots to stay in Sydney. Having kinda gone through the Hiltons there, I was looking at a Marriott property to stay. After loo ...
The Philadelphia Zoo
Labeled America's First Zoo, although it was chartered in 1859 because of the London Zoo being made public in 1847 and wanting to keep up, it didn't really open in until 1874. Some kind of civil war was interfering at the time. It started out huge with 1,000 animals, was even ...
