2 days before our departure to Kathmandu from Boston, with a stop in Doha, I got the email stating our 5 hour layover at Hamad International Airport would actually be 15 hours. Yikes – that’s way too long to spend in an airport! So I did some last minute research and booked the Banyan Tree […]

The trip was timed perfectly – Rachel had a conference in Las Vegas and my cousin was getting married the same week, meaning we’d be able to both enjoy this trip… and I could arrive a day early to support Rachel and meet her colleagues. I was fairly sick with a headcold our kids left […]

I’ve stayed across from the Conrad Hilton the last 8 out of 10 trips to Tokyo. I’ve watched their guests swim in their lap pool from across the chasm separating my room from their property, and I’ve always wondered if I should splurge the extra cash to stay there… but I’ve never done so. In […]

I feel so lucky our company’s headquarters is in Pasadena, California. While I lived in the city for 5 years, I’ve also had the pleasure of staying at many of the hotels in the area for work trips since I moved to Boston. I was not familiar with the Pasadena Hotel and Pool, an odd […]