Have you ever wanted to sleep with the fishes? Well amigos, you soon will be able to, providing you have the bucks to afford it. Within a year, Dubai will open a truly remarkable underwater luxury hotel. The project, called Hydropolis, will cover an area of 260 hectares, about the size of London’s Hyde Park, and [...]
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We were rolling down the highway under a starry sky somewhere near Puerto Escondido. Crazy Julio was at the wheel. Heading into town we stopped to pick up two young hitchhikers—a pair of mariachi musicians. It turned out they were twins. The merry pair were decked out in gold lamé suits with big, white embroidered sombreros. [...]
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Fly the Friendly Skies. Well, not always. A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways for more than $2 million because a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours. Gokhan Mutlu stated in court papers that the pilot told him [...]
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We no longer need worry about remembering the names of the seven ancient wonders of the world. In case you hadn’t heard, that dusty septet has been replaced by seven new wonders, which were selected last year in a popularity poll. The seven wonders of the ancient world were first named more than 2,000 years [...]
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You have journeyed halfway around the world. Jet-lagged, dazed and dehydrated, you shuffle into the baggage terminal, looking forward to grabbing your gear, transferring to your hotel and hitting the beach. You take a place beside the carousel and begin to wait, and wait, and wait. Ever had an airline lose your bags? You are [...]
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On a recent international trip I was faced with the daunting prospect of an eight-hour layover in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Lengthy airport layovers can be a horrid experience for travellers, especially since they often occur between long flights. In this case, the layover was the filling between a jet-lag sandwich of two nine-hour flights, pushing [...]
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Canada. Big country. Big lakes and mountains. Big roadside attractions. I’ll leave it to the sociologists to explain why Canadians feel compelled to construct enormous sculptures of furniture, food, animals and household appliances. But there is no denying our obsession with them. You can find these supersized monuments in every province, along almost every major [...]
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I have been reading the revised and expanded version of The Travel Detective by Peter Greenberg, the travel editor for NBC’s Today Show and chief correspondent for the Discovery Network’s Travel Channel. It’s just one in a series of books penned by the Los Angeles-based journalist, who specializes in uncovering airline, hotel, cruise and car-rental [...]
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We have all seen them at some point during our global travels. I’m referring to the street sign, advertisement, instruction or safety warning rendered in badly mangled English. There are thousands of these fractured phrases on public display. People collect them, stick them in photo albums and post them on the Internet. Here are some of [...]
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On March 5, 2008, the halls at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre reverberated with the sound of First Nations’ singing and drumming as the venue hosted the fifth Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia (ATBC) awards gala. The musical entertainment, which spanned a variety of styles ranging from evocative traditional dance to a blazing [...]
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