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The Omni Montelucia: Luxury in the Desert
The group we host on an annual basis is getting big (well over 200 now) and that means finding an appropriate venue is getting harder. Fortunately the Omni Montelucia was a great choice for this...
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Villa Fanny a Jewel in Caglieri (Sardegna, Italia)
Complimenti a Villa Fanny Villa Fanny located just outside of the heart of Caglieri is filled to the brim with design excellence. Finding a more gorgeous boutique convenient to everything in town would...
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Touching Base at the Zetter in London
So, is it really worth it to spend the night in London on the way back from Malta? Why yes. Yes it is. If you stay at the Zetter. We tried out room 505 this visit, which was a new one for NPS. The...
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Ink 48: Rocking Hell’s Kitchen in NYC
There’s nothing like experiencing a new Kimpton property for the first time. In all of our countless trips up to NY, NPS has never visited Ink 48 (though we have heard tell of it). Hell’s Kitchen is...
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Catoctin Creek at the Lorien in Old Town Alexandria
“It’s at a Kimpton,” Scott said. And he had our attention. You know how we feel about Kimpton here at NPS. Not only that, the Kimpton was actually the Lorien in Alexandria, a property on the upswing...
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want (2018 edition): Buchanan San Francisco
Is NPS spoiled? Yes. Does that make life harder for hotels and airlines when it comes to expectations? Yes. Welcome to the world of high end travel. 2018 started with a trip across the country on the...
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Hotel Kabuki San Francisco: So Close and Yet So Far Away
If anything is true, this is: NPS votes with its money. Sure, we pile on the praise (and the snark) as necessary. We even take on hotel chains that think they have us irreversibly trapped in their...
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All is Well in Boston at Hotel Marlowe
Well, Cambridge actually. But close enough. NPS has not been here in many months (since October 2016), and apparently we missed it. The Hotel Marlowe reminds us of everything we like about Kimpton: a...
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Park Plaza Nuremberg Steps it Up
Having been to Nuremberg twice now (see this posting about the first visit), NPS now has some friends in town. So what do we do on this very short visit? See our friends! First there is Park Plaza GM...
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Palomar DC and March for our Lives
It all came together just about perfectly. A morning talk at Georgetown, a nice dinner out (sadly not at Rose’s Luxury), cocktails at the Columbia Room, and then the highlight of the weekend, attending...
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Hotel Duxiana, Malmö, Sweden = Hot
From the swank common areas, through the central location in the city, to the glass shower situation, Hotel Duxiana is on fire. The food is great too. After a late day flying in from Austria, arriving...
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The Graduate, Charlottesville, VA Redefines “Suite” to Suit Nobody
During our previous visit to the Graduate in Charlottesville, we figured “it will do.” So this time we tried a plus up to what the hotel calls a “suite.” LOL. Just don’t do it. You can tell that this...
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Residence Inn Ann Arbor: Suburban “Style”
Here we are again in a university town, this time Ann Arbor. This town is great. Books, coffee, food, cocktails. Almost everything you need, but still no good hotel. The Residence Inn is a Marriott...
View Article#boaredintheusa Cocktails in London
Third time’s a charm. This year’s cocktail extravaganza was hashtagged (as always) with a tip of the hat to the Clash. (See #londonculling and #rockthecasbar entries.) From our base at the Mondrian...
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Nestor Hotel (Ludwigsburg, Germany) Rolls Out the Faded, Slighty-worn Reddish...
After a seriously turbulent night flight across the pond, a bus ride over the Frankfurt tarmac, a multiply-delayed ICE train and a missed local connection, it was nice to arrive at the Nestor Hotel and...
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Back at the Lorien in Alexandria During No Fly July
We’ve made quite the habit out of holding an annual data crunching summit at the Lorien. Third year in a row. And third time’s a charm. Helped out by Kimpton/IHG big shot Steph Vogel, we secured a...
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The Pillars, Fort Lauderdale: Old Old Old School Elegance
Do you rememebr the days when Ft Lauderdale was the hangout of the rich and well-heeled? Neither do we. But The Pillars was there. It has not changed much, but it is now surrounded on all sides but one...
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Back at the Grant Street Inn in Bloomington, Indiana
Though NPS has lost track of just how many times we’ve stayed at the Grant Street Inn, our previous visit seems to have been in October 2015! Whoa. Well, it’s nice to be back. The good news is that...
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Hotel Kabuki: San Francisco as Leg 1
NPS is on a 25 day adventure that includes San Francisco as a first stop. Loyal readers know that means Japantown, and Japantown these days means the Kabuki. The lobby is a great place to hang out and...
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The Sun Appears at Villa del Lago, Queenstown, New Zealand
What a difference a day makes. It rained like crazy in Dunedin almost the entire time we were there. The rain was so intense that major highways were flooding and bridges were impassable. After lunch...
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