Hotel Reviews

Opening our door, we hear the breathing of the sea. “Oh, how can this be anything but great?” Pete sighs. It’s serenity at the Silken Park Hotel San Jorge. The Silken Park Hotel San Jorge sits atop a rugged cliff along the Costa Brava’s Cami de Ronda walking trail in Platja d’Aro. We recently spent …

At the Hotel Aiguaclara in Begur on Spain’s Costa Brava, you are a treasured guest who is welcomed with love. When you come to stay at the Hotel Aiguaclara in Begur, you arrive at the 19th-century house of Bonaventura Caner Bataller. This was a man whose name (“good venture”) foretold a fortune to be made …

Not just a cost effective alternative to Singapore, Johor Bahru bridges old and new in Malaysia. Get there before modernization initiatives are complete. “We’ll be staying across the bridge in Malaysia,” Pete informed me. “We get two weeks in Johor Bahru for the same amount of Hilton points as a single week in Singapore. We’ll …