While I had no doubt that the sights and sounds of Kuching would be truly exquisite, I decided to round off my long weekend attending a wedding in Sarawak, Malaysia by departing for the last two nights to Sabah instead
Over the years, as an expat living in a foreign country, I believe I’ve done a pretty solid job of keeping abreast of all upcoming public holidays – and planning breaks around the sweeping majority. I was even convinced –
After the laughable experience that was the Bumi Surabaya City Resort, I had begun to worry deeply for what lay in store for me at the Shangri-La Hotel, Surabaya. As long-time suffering readers will know, my experiences at Shangri-La properties
It’s rare in recent years that I’ve stayed at a hotel that seemed to just completely suffer from a litany of back-to-back errors, and it’s sad to say that it is probably in no small part down to me staying at mostly big-box
For the first-half of this years Mother/Son trip to Oman, we opted to stay downtown – as I covered earlier, at the surprising Park Inn by Radisson – and then go for total luxury for the second half, down at
The Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore Airport’s latest gargantuan mixed-use development, opens today and I was lucky to grab a sneak peek at it last night; at least for a few hurried hours. The whole place is more super-premium shopping centre
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 Radisson Muscat. Unfortunately, if there is one thing I am
With a one-night stay in Singapore required to make it to the Universal Studios VIP Experience the next morning, I knew from the outset that I had zero intention whatsoever of staying in Singapore itself and that a stay at
With a whole bunch of Hilton Honors points belonging to my Mother to be used up, combined with no plans to head back to Ireland for Christmas, I decided to bail in to the Doubletree by Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, for
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 at the end of the year, I went for one