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Hotel Review: Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews September 24, 2018 0

The Fairmont Kea Lani on the island of Maui stands on a sloping, 22-acre site which gently descends to the sands of Polo Beach and the Pacific Ocean.

Hotel Review: Loews Regency San Francisco

Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews May 25, 2018 0

As did the Mandarin Oriental, its predecessor in the same building, the Loews Regency occupies the top 11 floors of a 48-story, two-tower building. Lingering touches of refined Asian hospitality remain part of the re-flagged hotel’s culture.

New International Network Boosts Avianca Brasil’s Growth

Airlines Featured Articles December 28, 2017 0

Avianca Brasil’s CEO Frederico Pedreira reveals that the carrier’s new international route network has contributed about 8 per cent of its revenue passenger kilometer traffic growth in 2017.

Hotel Review: The Phoenician, Scottsdale, Arizona

Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews September 12, 2017 0

Located at the base of landmark Camelback Mountain, the Phoenician is set in a ruggedly beautiful landscape softened by verdant golf courses, ponds and swimming pools and punctuated with palm trees and tall Saguaro cacti – the green exclamation points of the Sonoran Desert.

Scottsdale, Arizona – a Hometown Feel away from Home

Destinations Featured Articles Food and Drink Travel Tips May 9, 2017 1

This sunny city of nearly a quarter-million, just east of Phoenix, has a decidedly ‘hometown’ feel, palpable even to travelers from far away.

Review: The Towers at Pacifica, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels March 14, 2017 0

By Tim Cotroneo If first-time visitors think Los Cabos is still a sleepy fishing village, those thoughts are immediately quashed upon heading to their hotels from Los Cabos International Airport. All along the 25-mile length of the ‘Tourist Corridor’ leading to The Towers at Pacifica Resort are high-end hotels,... Read more

Review: Ocean Club Resort, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews February 6, 2017 0

According to the resort’s original owners, their strategy in locating the hotel was based on providing for its guests optimal views of the Turks and Caicos sunsets.

Hotel Review: Claremont Club & Spa, Berkeley, California

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels December 30, 2016 0

Fairmont’s recent refurbishment of the 276-room hotel catapulted the Claremont, which opened its doors in 1915, into the 21st century.

Munich Airport Looks for Third Runway to Open in 2022

Airports Destinations Featured Articles April 29, 2016 0

Dr. Michael Kerkloh, president and CEO of Flughafen München GmbH, Munich Airport’s operating company, says that while the airport already has legal approval for construction of the third runway, construction remains “subject to [receiving] a political green light”.

Hotel Review: Fairmont Scottsdale Princess

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews February 21, 2016 0

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is a luxuriant, AAA 5 Diamond city resort spread over manicured grounds. The property is tucked into the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, near where 15 Major League Baseball teams warm up for the regular season.

Review: Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard, London

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews December 30, 2015 0

Occupying 19 floors in The Shard, a 1,016-foot-high skyscraper on the south bank of the Thames near London Bridge, the 5-star Shangri-La, which opened in May 2014, is the highest hotel in town.

Review: Hotel Café Royal, London

Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews December 13, 2015 0

Since opening its doors in 1865, the Café Royal has been a fixture of upmarket London social life, first as a long-lived, celebrity-haunted restaurant and bar, then as a nightclub and now as a stylish 5-star hotel that smartly enfolds the old café space.

Review: Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo

Destinations Featured Articles Hotel Reviews Hotels Reviews September 3, 2015 0

The Chinzanso, while it inhabits a post-war building complete with a thrusting, 14-story tower, evokes an older, serene, nuanced style refined long ago in Japan. Some of that has to do with the Chinzanso’s location, far removed from central Tokyo and bordering a historic botanical garden.