Travel Reviews
Downtown Disney Marketplace - Christmas Eve
Being a jumping place during the Christmas season, Downtown Disney is the hub of not just Disney, but other big named stores and shops within Disney boundaries. On most days, this place is calm with people walking around at their own paces …
Museum Angkut, Indonesia
Perhaps the best English translation for the name of this place is the Transportation Museum. As the name suggests it is a good place for those who love anything related to transportation such as cars, bikes, trains, flights, airports, railway stations, etc. They claim that it is the largest and …
Initial Leather Luggage Tags
If you are a traveler like me and have been travelling worldwide, I am sure you too like me would have sometime or the other experienced some confusion about your luggage identity- on the airport or at the bus stop or at a railway station. This was perhaps the …
Medina Tangier Morocco
There are many interesting sights of which to take notice while visiting Tangier. The first place I believe to start is the Medina.
You enter through Rue Semmarine. You initially come upon the prior gold marketplace of the city. Even so there are still quite a few stores …
Triponds Family Camp Resort
We live in Michigan where we wait all winter long to enjoy beautiful weather in the spring and summer. One of the ways we get out and enjoy the great outdoors is through camping. We have been to numerous campgrounds over the years, and we have …
Grand Cayman Island
Grand Cayman Island is a truly amazing place! I went there a few summers ago and loved it! I definately hope to get back! The island itself is so pretty and driving down the road with the beach to the side is so amazing! You see gorgeous, gorgeous blue …
Morrow Mountain State Park
Morrow Mountain State Park is located at 49104 Morrow Mountain Road in Albemarle, North Carolina. Morrow Mountain offers hiking, camping, swimming, fishing and boating. We went in August of 1998 for an afternoon picnic with our friends Donna and Cassie. We started with a short hike of about a …
Messina Hof Winery Tour Bryan TX
The Messina Hof Winery located in Bryan, TX is a family owned winery belonging to Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo. Public tours of the winery and its buildings are available every day at 1:00 PM, 2:30 PM, and 5:30 PM for $5 per person.
The tour is approximately one hour …
Gravois Creek Campground
Last year we took a five day motorcycle trip which is an economical way to travel. It was a lot of fun but there is always the drawback of having to stay in a motel every evening. While many of the casino’s hotels we stayed in had …
Columbus NC
Columbus is a small southern town located in North Carolina. It is the last stop off of interstate 26 before you hit the South Carolina border. Columbus is growing in size but still lacks having a Wal-Mart of their own. So everyone drives to Spartanburg in South Carolina, or …
Parangtritis beach Indonesia
Parangtritis beach is one of the famous beach in my city, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It’s location in south of Java island, it’s in Bantul, Jogja. The beach is about 40 km from Yogyakarta city. The road to get there is so easy, just go to the ringroad and then to …
Jeep 22 Inch Black Luggage Bag
The Jeep 22 inch luggage piece is one which is sold at Wal-mart for $25 and I purchased it because of the price and I was unable to find something as large for this price. Since it was on sale I figured that I would give it a shot …
Las Vegas Fremont Street Experience
During some of my most recent visits to Las Vegas, Nevada, the Fremont Street Experience attraction has been one of my main highlights. With a fun, vibrant and electric atmosphere, I found myself visiting this attraction numerous times on each visit. Most of the action starts around …
Enchanted Rock
Enchanted Rock is a dome shaped granite mound located eighteen miles north of Fredericksburg, Texas on 16710 Ranch Rd 965. This summer, my family was able to spend a day hiking on Enchanted Rock.
It was a very hot day in August, but we carried backpacks filled with water bottles …
East Village Manhattan
I have been to a lot of nice places in Manhattan and there was this particular tour which I did with my group of friends and something that I find truly memorable and enjoyable. In Manhattan, I went to a nice place called East Village and we did …
Burnaby Lake in British Columbia, Canada
This is one of many natural parks in British Columbia, which is unspoiled by man. Ironically, this site was littered with sawmills at one time!
Burnaby is home to a nature house, a viewing tower, picnic sites, and walking and hiking trails, which are approximately an 11-kilometer walk. …
Prang Sam Yot, Thailand
Prang Sam Yot is a Khmer temple in the province of Lopburi Thailand, in the capital city by the same name, Lopburi.
The temple is a Buddhist shrine with three towers, or “prangs,” that were originally built to represent Hindu Gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
None of that matters though, …
Airparks Birmingham UK
Airparks in Birmingham is where we always like to park are car when we fly from Birmingham Airport. The car park is really easy to find just of Mackadown lane. Which is about fives minutes away from the airport.
We find that this is the most convenient and …
Sentosa Island
I first went to Singapore last October of 2005. I am with my husband and we were on our honeymoon. Actually we first went to Malaysia and flew to Singapore after visiting Kuala Lumpur and the famous Petronas Twin Towers.
And of course, going to Singapore is not complete without …
Megabus Bus Service
I live in New York City, which means that having a car is pretty much unnecessary and a big hassle than I care to deal with at this point in my life. Usually I give cars little to no thought, however every once in a while there is …
Hickory Grove Road in Starkville, MS
I try to avoid traveling along this road when possible. It’s located somewhat outside the town of Starkville. You can take this route when traveling from Starkville, MS to Columbus but I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s located just off of the west ended of Highway 82 …
Pony Express Museum
Stopping at the Pony Express Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri was well worth the low admission cost. I did not realize this was where the Pony Express started before this visit. The Pony Express Museum is in the actual spot as the original stable, where the first rider took …
Melia Azul Ixtapa
Melia Azul Ixtapa is in Mexico, and my aunt had sponsored me to this place before. Her husband works with a travel agency, and he gets discounts here and then. That is why I always get to go to nice and exotic places that I haven’t heard …
Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Warrens Wisconsin
This park is one of the best campground resorts in the state. I have been going here for about five years, and the place never gets old. My family and I have stayed in both a pop-up camper on one of the pull-in sites, and in a small rental …
Adventure Safaris
Traveling in Africa is not cheap at all. In Botswana alone, they have a low tourism volume policy which makes it expensive to see this country. It at least costs me €250 a night in one of the lodges. I sometimes book directly with the Lodge or the agency …
Laiya, San Juan, Batangas
Batangas is one of the most popular destinations during summer here in the Philippines, it’s our family’s number one vacation destination because of it’s proximity to the city. Our usual travel time is around 3 hours that is considering that we bring a private car. The last time I …
Jericho Beach in Vancouver, Canada
Another charming beach that the city of Vancouver has to offer is Jericho Beach, which is wide as it is long. When you go to see this beach, be ready for a long walk. I myself make sure that I’m wearing rubber shoes instead of flip flops …
General George Patton Museum Fort Knox Kentucky
If you like history and would like to learn some things about the past of our US Soldiers then this is deffinately the place to be. I have lived on Post (Fort Knox) for over a year and I love to go an visit the museum and take …
South Africa Two Oceans Aquarium
As expected of any tourist, I visited some places when I was in Cape Town. In particular, as I had 2 kids in tow who need to be amused and a husband who did not want to be dragged to the shops, one of the unanimous choices we picked …
Megabus
Megabus has become one of my favorite ways to travel. It offers an opportunity to get to your destination more leisurely while seeing some of the great American landscape as you drive on the freeway.
Fares are cheap. If you book early, you can pay only $1/one way. I have …
Great Ocean Road Tour, Melbourne (Grayline Tours)
The best and most memorable tour I had during my trip to Australia was the Great Ocean Road Tour in Melbourne. I booked my ticket through Grayline, and availed the Diamond Pass which was a very good deal (AUD386 for 4 whole day tours which you can split …
Shepherd of the Hills HIstoric Homestead Tour
The Shepherd of the Hills tour is somthing I had been wanting to do ever since I picked up Harold Bell Wright’s book, The Sheperd of The Hills, on one of our previous visits to Branson, Missouri.
Our tram tour took about and hour and a half, and the tour …
Terracotta Soldiers
I visited the Terracotta Soldiers in the ancient city of Xian, China not that long ago. Leading up to going to China, the Terracotta Soldiers was one of the top things on my list to see when I went there.
When I did go there to the large building where …
Visit Austin Texas
I lived in Austin texas for about 10 years and it is My favorite big city in the United States. For a city of its size it still has that small town appeal if you look for it. I think having the univerity of Texas there plus a few …
Long Island Beach, New Jersey
I visited New Jersey for a week in Manahawkin, which is about a ten minute drive from Long Beach Island. I was there in the late summer/early Autumn, and was told that the beaches were either extremely packed, or dead as a doornail in the off season.
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Namibia Fish River Canyon
A big advantage we had while visiting the Fish River Canyon was that this place was very near to the resort where we were staying. I did not think it would be very wise to go to the Canyon and sleep somewhere else as the journey would be …
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower is in France, definitely. There were a couple of times that I have been to this amazing tower and the views were so amazingly cool. If you ask me, I am especially attracted to the night-time display and the general appearance of the whole tower.
As …
Santa Lourdes
A visit to Saipan will not be complete if you do not visit the Shrine of Santa Lourdes. I came from a devout Catholic family, so I jump at every chance to see statues of the saints, the Virgin Mary and other religious artifacts when in other countries. It …
Sydney Aquarium, Australia
The location of Sydney Aquarium is in Darling Harbour about seven minutes westward on foot from Town Hall railway station and around 10 minutes from Sydney Tower. The admission fee is 35 Australian dollars (38.50 US dollars) per person, but only 55 dollars if you purchase tickets for both …
Louvre Museum
This was one of the highlights of our trip to London and Paris. Both my husband and I would love to go back.
We thought it would be best to arrive early in the morning, before the museum opened, as we figured the lines would be long if we had …
Fortress of Louisbourg
We were here last year in the middle of August. It was quite cool, so we had to wear our sweaters even though it was summer. We entered the main building next to the parking lot and paid our admission, then we were told we had a few minutes …
Wilshire Blvd. in LA
Wilshire Blvd. is one of the main streets of Los Angeles, winding through the city, connecting with many of the main highways and eventually taking drivers to the Pacific Ocean.
Wilshire offers a great pass through the city. It hits the 405, 5 and 110 highways and is easily accesible …
Maple Valley Campground, Pewamo, MI
We have been camping for many years with our family and friends. We live in Michigan where we have long cold winters, so once the warm summer months come around, we love to be outside. Michigan has a large variety of campgrounds, and we have tried a lot …
Paloma Club Sultan in Kusadasi, Turkey
When I went to Kusadasi I searched for a hotel where you don’t only sit in the sun all day. I liked the bungalows, where I asked for accommodation, because I really didn’t need to feel the whole fuss that is specific to a hotel.
The first surprise we had …
New Orleans French Quarter
French Quarter is in New Orleans, Louisiana and I have been on a trip there with my aunt and her family. I really feel that there are many things that one can find in French Quarter and that I had a real nice time with much to see …
Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT
In mystic, Connecticut, there is this wonderful place that I had not visited since I was a child until recently. I remember as a child going there on a field trip with my elementary school class and I never forgot how much I enjoyed that trip even though it …
City of Danang, Vietnam
It is located in the center of Vietnam, and it belonged to South Vietnam during the war period. It is said that this is the third largest city in Vietnam and is a tourist town. In my opinion, Danang does not fit as a tourist town for many reasons. Among …
Walt Disney World vacation planning kit
I received a Walt Disney World vacation planning kit in the mail a couple of days ago. My husband wanted to watch it to see what they have there that was new, so we did. It is a neat idea for marketing the park and resorts to stay at …
Beijing Forbidden City
The formal name of this place is the Palace Museum. It is located to the north of Tian-an-men square. Although it has several entrance gates, the best way for exploring this museum is from Tian-an-men gate (the main entrance) at the south point. To do this, you can use …
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