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Sharon and I have an unusual affection for Roy’s Restaurants. The James Beard award-winning chef Roy Yamaguchi started Roy’s in Honolulu in 1988 and the chain eventually became a part…

TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel site and millions of people rely on it as a resource for reviews on travel destinations, hotels, restaurants, etc. Of course, you sometimes have…

Running since February 2000, TripAdvisor is well known for comparing prices from 200+ booking sites to help you find the lowest price on the right hotel for you. However, they…

While I have many credit cards, the majority of them don’t get used on a regular basis. Occasionally they’ll get pulled out of the drawer when I get a bonus…

I’ve followed Jeff Goldblum’s career, on and off, since Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was on the air in 1980 (anybody else?). Anyway, I guess you could say Goldblum (who was…

Way back before the internet had progressed to what it is today (and further back, before there even was an internet), you really took your chances when you made a…

There are several ways to research hotels online. Unfortunately, none of them are perfect. You can search for reviews but then you depend on the search engine to decide which…

Hotels are in the business of getting people to stay at their properties overnight. One way for them to do this is to present themselves in a way that makes…

If you think of any vacation site, it’s natural that some people are going to love it and other people, not so much. Joe and I are no exception, I…

I recently read a story about a Scottish couple who stayed at a hotel that they compared to Fawlty Towers. Fawlty Towers was a 1970s era British TV sitcom. From…