I received an email from a PR firm about a new community from Marriott for Marriott Reward’s members called Marriott Rewards Insiders.
Interesting features of the Marriott Rewards Insiders community include the following:

Registered members can use the site to check out information, post their own questions and add their two-cents with responses.
Member profiles can be [...]

So you want to book a trip online. There are many sites to go to, how do you know which one is the best? That was the question that I had when I got an email from Cfares.com PR agency telling me how much better Cfares.com was than the traditional travel sites: Orbitz.com, Expedia.com and [...]

It used to be that when a restaurant found that a restaurant critic was coming or when a hotel found out that a hotel reviewer would be staying they could make an extra effort to give the best possible experience. One of the changes that the Internet has made is that everyone eating at [...]

As someone who is 6 foot 3 inches tall but too cheap to buy a first or business class airline ticket i was very interested to read an article on GeekAbout.com for The 10 Most Comfortable Airline Economy Seats
Their winner was Virgin America which is consistent with other reports I have heard. My only quibble [...]

There is a new player in the hotel review space which is TVTrip.com. TVTrip hosts video reviews of hotels. At this time they have “115 destinations, 5530 hotels, 494008 reviews, 4937 videos”. That is a very small percentage of the world’s hotels but the value of actually being able to see the hotel (if they [...]

As I get ready for my upcoming trip to London I have been doing my homework and stumbled across this video that is a great overview of the monuments in London that are related to the great London fire.
Starting at Monument and winding along the streets of the city towards Spitalfields, this walk follows [...]

Who thought this was a good idea? Well, you can bet it was not someone with a fear of heights. Dinner in the Sky is part theme park ride and part dining experience. 22 guests, chefs and waiters are raised up by a crane on a specialized platform. The website for this company shows them [...]

The most recent episode of the wonderful “Fly with Me” podcast dealt with people behaving badly on flights. The host of the show Joe Dion, a commercial airline pilot, remarked that when you think about how unnatural a commercial flight is with so many people crammed so close together in a pressurized metal tube 6 [...]

I have mentioned Kayak.Kayak.com before as one of my favorite sites to use for booking air travel. Kayak sent out a reminder of how to save money booking holiday travel that is worth passing along. If you specify that your dates are flexible (you must create an account to use this feature) you can bring [...]

Remember back when you used to get a meal on your flight? Heck, remember when you used to get peanuts? Well some airlines on some flights still offer meals and the site AirlineMeals.net documents meals that travelers have been served. The meal above was served, for example, in Business Class on a Continental airline flight. [...]