A short stay in Astana (Nursultan) at a strange hotel with a curious dog at reception...
Category: Hotels and Accommodation
Hotel Review – Peppers Moonah Resort, Mornington Peninsula
So. I had looked at a number of options in regards to a place to stay on the Mornington Peninsula as I was hoping we could get away in the first half of November. I honestly looked mostly at motels and cheaper options, and finding decent and decently priced places to stay in the destination …
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Best Accommodation Reviews of 2020
My best accommodation reviews written this year!
Retro Review – Gulnara Guesthouse, Tashkent
Time for another RETRO Review, where we shift back through time to many years back now and I write about a place I stayed at which has remained in the corners of my memory for one reason or another. Today, I’m writing about Gulnara Guesthouse where I stayed in June 2011 when I was in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
Retro Review – Hotel Semey, A Soviet Relic from Semey, Kazakhstan
Today's 'retro' review takes me back to a very interesting stay I had in Semey, Kazakhstan some years ago now in a hotel with a distinct 'Soviet' feel!
Accommodation Review – Albert Guesthouse and Mills, Daylesford, Victoria
Last December my wife and I stayed in this unique guesthouse in Daylesford. Here's my review!
Tajikistan Homestay Experience.
Sick of apartments, guesthouses and hotels? Tajikistan is one country where you can still stay with families and take a real look at local life!
The ‘Pousada Experience’ – Unique Accommodation in Portugal
Have you ever wanted to stay in a palace or a castle? In Portugal, many of the old palaces are state owned and it is possible to stay in them. Here's our experience at the 'Pousada de Quelez'.
Infante Sagres – That Time I Splurged on a Five-Star Hotel!
Or – Is a Five star hotel THAT much better than a four-star hotel? When preparing for my trip last year (2019) I booked almost all my hotel stays in advance (and one AirBnb stay). Bar a few nights in Tajikistan, I was booked for the rest of the nights which meant I knew where …
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Review – A Really Positive Air BnB Experience! [Lisbon]
Howdy all, and today I’m going to review our stay in Lisbon, Portugal last year. Whereas we’d been sticking to hotels up until hitting the Portuguese capital, in this instance we decided to give Air BnB another go. I’d sworn off them a little – not completely – owing to a couple of experiences we’d …
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