It’s been a busy week of travel, and I’ve had a lot of my plate this week, but I still found some good travel posts to share with you.  Enjoy your afternoon with this variety of travel information:
Luxuo introduces us to a new type of architecture, a house built out of the iconic Louis Vuitton brown and gold print.  It’s rumored to be located in Mexicali.  I wonder how many tourists stop by for a look.
LA Times Travel lures us with exotic details of a cruise to Antarctica.  I would love to be able to afford a trip to …read more

I’ve been visiting a lot of hotels lately, in preparation for adding in more reviews of hotels, spas, and restaurants here at Flyaway Cafe.  I’ve made it my practice to not write a review immediately after a visit, because everything seems GREAT or HORRIBLE then.  I take time to look at the photos, see how I feel about the visit a week or so later, and then start forming a detailed opinion.
Have I found myself telling friends all about the place – either raving or complaining?  Or has the visit failed to stand out as a memory at all?  A …read more

Wanting a last minute escape to the sun, but not wanting to spend all day on an airplane, I decided to head to Las Vegas for a couple of days last month.  Mid-November is a nice time to be in Las Vegas.  Although the nights are a bit chilly, daytime was in the 80’s giving me some solid hours for pool time without feeling like I was being baked to death.
On this trip I stayed on the strip at the Palazzo Hotel, (3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas).
The Palazzo, like its sister property The Venetian, is an all-suites Las …read more

I first heard about TVtrip.com when they launched last summer.  The concept is to provide a hotel search engine that uses unbiased videos filmed by TVtrip.  You check out the video, decide if you like the hotel, and then book.  All for the TVtrip website.
Although the concept was interesting, there just weren’t enough hotels for me to decide just how reliable the site was going to be.  As we approach the one year mark, I took a look back to see how they’ve evolved.
For starters, there are a lot more properties available.  Still, while they claim to have over …read more