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! Even though the wedding itself was back over on the
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 hotels beyond a Hilton (I’ve no idea why, but I
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
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
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
For one of KL’s many long weekends, it seemed like a good idea – as always – to get out of town. Honestly, with forthcoming trips at the time to Thailand, Langkawi, Ireland, the US and possibly the US again
As many of you will recall, my last stay in an Ibis was around 2011 in Hanover, Germany – where the space-shuttle all-plastic bathroom represented about the peak of my memory of the place. So my original plan for Seoul
It’s been a while since I posted a hotel review on this blog instead of over on my Tripadvisor account. Simply put, I prefer to keep this site only for longer, more lengthy ramblings – whereas Tripadvisor seems better suited