Tag Archives: hotel

When the type of bed a hotel uses blocks access to under the bed, I’m usually just relieved I can’t lose my shoes there. But now I have something new to worry about. Hotel guests staying at a Mexico City, Mexico, hotel unknowingly spent the night with a corpse.  A …

There’s a new service that’s launching which offers higher-end hotels at wholesale rates.  As part of its officially launch, I’m giving away two things–everyone can get a free membership to the website for 1 year and one lucky person will receive $250 in free hotel credit via the website. (tl/dr: 1. …

Sometimes when you connect to hotel wifi, things just don’t click.  For some reason, the login screen won’t come up, and every website gives you a strange warning when you navigate there. There’s one trick my friend in IT told me years ago that can help you get connected to the …

I won’t admit what search terms I used that brought this up, but I found a resort that has an interesting experience. They hide bottles of Cruzan Rum in the water so that while you are snorkeling, you have a chance of discovering a bottle of rum. I think I …

I had a late night flight from LA to San Francisco, but I was trying to get there earlier to have some time in the city.  I confessed to Points & Pixie Dust that I didn’t have a fully-formed hotel plan that night and was going to wing it based …

When I travel for work, I try to set up my hotel routine to be as much like home as possible.  I get up at the same time (even on the West Coast) and I go to bed at the same time. I even have the same morning routine.  I …