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on April 13, 2015 at 10:22 am ×
I cannot personally vouch for the accommodations at Vdara — although the suites look world class (see below) and the lofts read as a wonderland of vacation bliss — but having spent ample time inside ESPA at Vdara and outside on the open-air patio lounge of Vice Versa, I can […]
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on March 31, 2015 at 2:14 pm ×
For those, like us, who’d never been to the Big Island of Hawaii before and who, like us, had a very specific and extremely idyllic flowery vision of what Hawaii would look like upon arrival, the drive from Kona’s outdoor airport to The Fairmount Orchid can be more than a […]
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on March 19, 2015 at 7:36 pm ×
I’d never visited Las Vegas before the summer of 2013, so I don’t know personally of the Strips’ glory days, neither the beloved Rat Pack era (of course) or the decades that followed, when themed casinos dominated Las Vegas Boulevard. There are remnants of that latter period on view today, […]
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on September 10, 2014 at 11:56 am ×
For as much as we travel together as a family, we don’t often frequent the high-end of the accommodation spectrum. This isn’t because we don’t fancy the fancy, it’s because we are usually over-extended financially and piecing our trips together with rolls of nickels and my dwindling collection of crisp […]