…ld visit the Ferry Building versus the famous Pier 39 Castro Street: vibrant and very gay Sausalito (charming town across the bay) Hotels I stayed in San Francisco and surrounds: Le Meridien Hotel San Francisco Cavallo Point Hotel (across the bay) Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco, originally uploaded by garybembridge. Things To Do San Francisco…
…ngs, big constructions and the like, I was excited to see that near to the hotel we were staying in at Battery Park New York, was an interesting sounding museum called “The Skyscraper Museum”. A visit to the website at http://www.skyscraper.org made it seem a must see visit for building geeks. I assumed it would be as interesting as some of the kind of documentaries on Discovery Channel (I did warn I was a bit geeky on these things!). The museum w…
…you get there. You can check directions on one of the maps you get in your hotel. You amble up the road first you will see the famous Radio City Music Hall. If you’re going to be in New York around Christmas, it is worth booking to see the Radio City Hall Christmas Show with the Rockettes. You can go on a tour through the Radio City Music Hall, but it’s probably on this whirlwind tour it is best to just take photographs of the outside of this fabu…
…or doing bookings (expedia, travelocity), what Apps they using (flight and hotel deals) and how many do things like check hotel and destinations reviews (77% and 62%), use social networks before (Facebook) and during travels and what they do while travelling (photos, map features, restaurant searches) and after travelling (write reviews and post photos). Some links: My Pinterest Travel inforgraphics album Travel Infographics Archive Mashable : Evo…
…Shanghai. It has a population of about 17 million people. There’s over 350 hotels, with 60,000 hotel rooms. It is really geared up for tourists and for tourism. And there’s is a lot of things to do! So here are my tips for travellers visiting Shanghai. Getting and Going there: Visa: One of the things you need to ensure is that you have a visa! This takes time to get, and so you have to ensure you apply plenty of time before. If you are going to vi…
…h the backdrop of sweeping beach and sea this fits the bill perfectly. The hotels seem quite cheap even in the peak season. We had a drink in the Riveria hotel and again it feels like you are caught in a strange time warp. Both the decor and the service is very 1970s. The food and service in the hotels and restaurants is good enough, but again feels a few steps behind. This may be as there is a lot of transient passers through, and so they can get…
Before this guest house became Posh, it was a hotel for “bears” (large and hairy gay men). It was not very successful, and was rundown and went into receivership in 2009. This was when the new owners came across it, bought it and did major work to create a very pleasant, bright and comfortable guest house. The name POSH, according to the materials in the room, was inspired by the old nautical practice in days before jet travel when those with mon…
…pe Town, the Eastern & Oriental train in Asia, Royal Scotsman train, Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg and Hotel Cipriani in Venice. 3: They tend not to push the Orient Express name to the forefront of their properties, other than the train. This means that people do not always know they are going to an Orient Express venue, something that they are looking to evolve and change so that people come to better understand their diversity, and the qua…
…p://www.bembridge.co.uk/a/My_Albums/Pages/1105_Madrid_May_2011.html See my hotel room videos of Madrid: Gran Melia Fenix Hotel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUlJgAwbeHs&feature=relmfu Mercure Santo Domingo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hitmpe5dI00 Websites and links: MadridCard: http://www.madridcard.com/en/inicio Madrid on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid Madrid Palace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Palace_of_Madrid Madrid…
…ideos on YouTube (as of end December 2010), and have had (as of posting) 15.8 MILLION views of the videos. Here are the 10 most popular to date in order: Las Vegas Stratosphere X-Scream Las Vegas Stratosphere Insanity Las Vegas Stratosphere Big Shot Las Vegas Bellagio Fountains Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel Room Victoria Falls Bridge Bungee Jump Universal Studios: Backdraft Rovos Rail Train: South Africa Universal Studios: Jaws Crowne Plaza New York: H…
…s For Travellers Channel on YouTube has around 250 videos to date covering hotel rooms, attractions and other travel related videos (like video tours etc). The channel is popuar and has heading for 12 million views of videos! To visit the channel and subscribe: click here But here are the 5 most watched videos as of July 2010: and all are for Las Vegas: #1: Stratoshere Roller Coaster (watched 5 million plus times) #2 Stratosphere Insanity Ride (2…
