The Most Annoying ‘Famous Market’…
I was initially going to write one of my more ‘normal’ pieces, but I decided this Friday night to give you a piece instead on my two trips to Turkey…
Airport Lounges, 2023 – Worse Than The Terminal
One unfortunate casualty of the explosion of “pent-up” premium travel demand in 2023 appears to be the airport lounge.
A Night At The Shangri-La Golden Sands, Penang
With good rooms, great views and reasonable prices, I was very impressed by the Shangri-La Golden Sands, Penang.
Sleepless in PD – D’Wharf Hotel, A Review
As I mentioned in my last post, a last-minute decision to hit Port Dickson, a small coastal town about an hour from Kuala Lumpur, meant that my preferred choice of…
Unreal Views at Port Dickson
I’ve been to Port Dickson a handful of times, and each time leaves me with the same impression; the whole place is a vaguely run-down beach town so close to…
Long Weekends Relaxing at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang
Kicking off my run of long weekends at various colleagues’ weddings (see also Kuching & Kota Kinabalu), was a trip up to Penang for the first of the many events!…
A Complicated Stay at Pullman Kuching
For my colleagues’ wedding, I recently found myself needing to visit and stay a few nights in Kuching, Malaysia; a location which seemed to suffer a relative dearth of upmarket…
Parking Myself at Park Inn Muscat
After the frankly bizarre and most fantastically inconsistent SriLankan Airlines experience I mentioned last time, we were quickly whisked to our first hotel on the ‘Muscat Tour’, Park Inn by…
To Sao Paulo, via Dubai – Emirates Business Class
With one of the most last-minute, 3-week long travel extravaganzas of my life suddenly hurtling at me, I was delighted to finally have a chance to try Emirates Business Class…
Thoughts on Hotel Jen Penang
I haven’t stayed at a single Shangri-La property this year so far – I know that’ll come as a surprise, if not a massive turn-around – and with points expiring…