We stayed at the Residence Inn Flagstaff for one night when we overnighted on the way from Albuquerque to the Grand Canyon. We were arriving late at night and just wanted somewhere close to the train station so that we could walk there, get some sleep, and then return to[…]
Day 1 Check out our journey to the sky in a Rainbow Ryder’s balloon – the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival was our main reason for being in Albuquerque and we had a blast. Day 2 Albuquerque Trolley Tour We knew that weather could be fickle, so we’d planned a backup[…]
We’d gone to Hamilton to see the balloon festival (Hi Yonita!) and had gotten up early to see the balloons take off in the morning. Seeing the balloons stand up and three of them actually fly (weather wasn’t good at altitude apparently) was cool, but when we found out that[…]
The Howard Johnson in Midtown Albuquerque is a slightly more value-conscious Wyndham offering than we typically cover at Etrip.tips. But since the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque was on, all the more luxurious hotels had been booked solid for some time, so it was a matter of finding the best of[…]
Day 0 After we got off the train from New York (approximately a 3 hour journey) we walked the short distance to our hotel (Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill) and checked in. We’d heard about the circulator bus service that did a big loop around the mall and only cost[…]
A pair of parks in Washington DC form a triangle, just north of the National Mall. They’re called the Lower and Upper Senate Parks and are bound by Union Station in the north-east, the Capitol Building to the south and the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capital Hill to the north-west.[…]
Day One Getting There Life is all about making mistakes – hopefully you don’t make the same ones more than once. Back in 2010 I came to New York for the first time. I took a shared shuttle into the city from the airport, not realising that the cabs operating[…]
New York’s skyscrapers and bustling metropolis is only interrupted occasionally by parks and trees, so when we arrive at the Cambria Hotel New York – Chelsea, it is a surprise to have walked through a street lined with all manner of bright flowers and foliage. This is the city’s Flower[…]
Airport hotels: gotta love em. The Radisson Hotel JFK Airport is not actually on the airport, but promised a free shuttle pickup. All you have to do is ring them from a courtesy phone in arrivals. Or so they said. We arrived bleary eyed and walked right past the mob[…]
The brand new Aspire lounge at Gatwick’s South Terminal is hidden down a corridor off the communal waiting area on the top floor. I say ‘hidden’ because the signage is metal and reflects the harsh overhead lights making the letters hard to make out. Fortunately there is some signage visible[…]