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If a traveler, especially if they’re based in western North America, wants a place to go to get away from it all, they go to Hawaii or Mexico. If said person wants a place to get away from it all and do little more than lounge in the sun, float in a pool, and drink tropical beverages, they go to Cabo.
Continue reading “Review: Rating Cabo and the All-Inclusive Experience at Secrets Resorts”
anchored & adrift’s Insider Interview series connects our readers with the firsthand stories and perspectives of travel and design industry professionals and other featured guests.
While a travel blog focuses on storytelling, hospitality professionals are story creators. They work to make our adventures into incredible experiences that we crave and yearn to escape through again and again. Traveling is the dream, and these hard-working hosts make it a reality. Continue reading “Insider Interview: A Look Behind the Scenes of Hotel Hospitality with Megan C.”
There is a phrase in Swedish that refers to the essential “P’s” of travel packing list that can be roughly translated as passport, pounds, and poarding passes (pass, pengar, och piljetter). The almost-alliterative list is supposed to help you remember the items you absolutely cannot travel without: ID, money, and tickets. If you remember these, at least you can address anything else you forgot later. In a nod to 2018’s sweeping wellness travel trend, I’d say the new “P’s” are passport, pounds, poarding pass, and push-ups. And I hate push-ups. Continue reading “From Pushback to Push-Up: Incorporating Wellness into Your 2018 Travel Plans”
Last week, I enjoyed a young professional version of spring break on South Beach in Miami, Florida. My travel companion and I stayed at the Z Ocean Hotel (Crowne Plaza South Beach), located on the main strip of Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue. After extensive travel site reviews, comparisons, and map plotting of South Beach’s various top hotels, we selected Z Ocean Hotel as it offered the best amenities and characteristics for all of our points of interest: location, room design, location, pool, price (including evaluation of additional fees such as valet parking and resort fees), beachside services, luxurious feel, and overall ratings.
Our stay met all of our expectations and was very enjoyable. Here are some noteworthy aspects, written and photographed, about the Z Ocean experience: Continue reading “Review: Z Ocean Hotel, South Beach”
In my Global Retail Marketing class this week, my professor mentioned what I think is a brilliant development in the hospitality industry and branding: the announcement of a joint venture by IKEA and Marriott to create Moxy Hotels, a millennial-geared, low-cost, Scandinavian-designed, quality hotel brand. Continue reading “Fresh Hospitality: The Marriott-IKEA Millennial Venture”
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