This is what the hotel in Japan gave us…
… at breakfast time!
Photography, Restaurants & Clients
Chatting with a friend last night… I was pondering what he said about clients. It occurred to me that when it comes to photographers… they’re kind of like restauranteurs. I often have eaten in restaurants where either the food or the service was disappointing. For example, we’d eat overcooked pasta in a local restaurant served…
The Highland Hotel: Strathpeffer
PlusLocation was fine, and staff were courteous. We didn’t try the restaurant in the hotel except for breakfast. Room was comfortable enough. The location of the hotel was fine, too. Right in the middle of Strathpeffer. MinusWell, Sunday breakfast was a disaster. Staff on duty in the restaurant really did not know what to do….
Park Inn by Radisson Aberdeen: Could be a great hotel, if only…
Stayed there for a couple of nights and found that it was a strange mixture of a hotel: great design, very responsive & hard working staff who really try to take care of you. That alone would make this a great hotel, but the downsides to this hotel were significant to me & my mother….
London: Near our hotel!
Ok. I let you in on a secret: we’re staying not more than 50 meters from this destination: watch and see. Another clue:
How do you choose your hotel?
As I was planning my next website on Travel to Taiwan, I began to think about hotels, as many of my keywords included hotel names. So how do people go about choosing a hotel they’ve never visited. For example, if you are visiting Toronto, how do you decide which of the Toronto hotels you are…
Hotel Collapse in Southern Taiwan: Morakot After Effects
Hotel Collapse: This is the most enduring image of the typhoon that I reported a week or so ago as coming to Taiwan, a collapse that shocked everyone. You can see more footage here. There are lots of donations coming in for the relief effort.
Vacation Homes Affordable alternative to staying in a hotel?
We travel to the UK every few years, though it is particularly expensive to get good accommodation in the UK. In fact, most guest houses and hotels are substandard, expensive, and variously unpleasant. For example, one guest house I stayed in had an entrance way that smelled of urine. Another hotel looked great from the…