Before starting the long drive up to Alaska back in May, my wife and I spent nearly a week at Spirit Ridge Resort in Osoyoos, Canada. This property had been on my radar for several years, so I was excited about finally getting to check it out and hoped that...

I left the Hyatt Regency Bangkok feeling perplexed. It had its pluses and minuses.

The InterContinental Hotel in Sofia is nicely located in the capital. As you would expect from a well known chain, it is very well kept, modern and up to date. It has some excellent features which I found really interesting. I was sent abroad on a work trip, so for...

Our recent stay at a Hyatt Place had a big problem to get in or out of our room - all because of the improvements the hotel made. The post Our Hyatt Place’s Improvements Made it Very Difficult to Get In and Out of Our Room appeared first on Running with...

Background and Location During a recent trip to Boston, I had the pleasure of touring the Newbury Boston which is located in the Back Bay neighborhood. It’s on prime real estate, on the corner of the famous upscale shopping street (Newbury Street) and across the street from the beautiful Boston...

After staying two nights at Canne Bianche and loving our stay there (review here),… The post Hotel Review: Hotel Orientale appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.

I bet you’ve read a hotel review that sounded like this. We checked in at the elite line, and the agent advised us that we had been upgraded to a…

I had the pleasure of staying at the Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. It is always a pleasure staying at Marriott resorts rather than Marriott city hotels as they have so much space and there is so much more to enjoy at the resort hotels. While...

Background I did a property tour of the Raffles Boston during my last trip to the city, and it was nice to check out the first North American property for the Raffles brand. Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a Singaporean chain of luxury hotels that is part of Accor. It...

Background & Location The Langham Boston is quite a unique property as it used to be the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which opened in 1922. It became a hotel in 1981 as the Hotel Meridien Boston and became the Langham in 2003. The hotel closed in 2019, underwent a...

This hotel had one job...

After our night at Hotel Relais La Sommità (review here), we moved to the… The post Hotel Review: Canne Bianche appeared first on The Bulkhead Seat.

Background & Location The Fairmont Copley Plaza will always be a special place to me as I always associate it with the Disney Channel show The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It served as the location for the Tipton Hotel in the show. Having opened in 1912, the hotel...