Retro Revival: 14 Cool Roadside Hotels Kristy Alpert These former motels have gone from seedy to stylish. Once a national icon, motels fell out of fashion in the late ’60s with the invention of the chain hotel, leaving many mom-and-pop moteliers stranded on America’s roadsides with nothing but a surplus…
15 Hotels Built on Volcanoes By Kristy Alpert Volcanoes are all at once devastatingly majestic and powerfully peaceful, harnessing the power to both create and destroy while offering a thrilling mix of beauty and danger for adventurous travelers. Whether your style is more about waking up on the edge of…
The Best Hotels Come in the Smallest Countries By Kristy Alpert Amazing lodgings, itty-bitty nations. It’s not easy being small, especially in Europe where the big countries get all the attention. Most tourists spend their time hopping from France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, but few ever make it out to…
10 Places to Relive Your Favorite TV Shows By Kristy Alpert ’Tis the season for reruns while we wait for our favorite shows to start up again. Don’t spend the next few months vegging out on the couch; put down the remote and book a ticket to one of these…
Suite Hearts: 10 Romantic Hotels Perfect for Valentine’s Day When it comes to romantic Valentine’s Day packages, these hotels make rose petal turndown service look like routine flower arranging. From Massage 101 sessions for couples and aphrodisiac tasting menus for two to midnight snowshoeing excursions in the Swiss Alps followed…
Do As I Dubai: How to Eat, Navigate, and Socialize Like a Local Posted by Kristy Alpert In a country where locals are a small minority of the population (in 2015, expats outnumbered Emiratis nine to one), Dubai isn’t necessarily the first place you’d expect to find a thriving local scene….
Bottoms Up! 13 Great Places for Booze and Beers in Salt Lake City Posted by Kristy Alpert Until recently, Salt Lake City was better known for its list of long rules than it was for its long pours. The city is legendary for its tough restrictions on alcohol, like how the…
Not So Alone in Russia: A Solo Traveler Becomes One of the Crowd Posted by Kristy Alpert Russia had long been the pipe dream on my list of travel goals, its candy-colored cathedrals taunting me with their unreachable points. It seemed so unattainable—I’d only known a few people who’d gone, none…
10 Essential Experiences for Wine Lovers For true wine lovers, wine is all about the experience, from savoring the pop of the cork to exploring the wine’s aromas and expressions through a ritual of swirling, sniffing, and sipping. Every glass of wine has the power to take its holder on…
