One night when I was in Miami for a business conference, staying in South Beach, I found myself with an evening to myself.  I walked down Ocean Drive, allowing all the restaurant hosts and hostesses to hawk their dinners and half-price drink specials at me, and finally arrived at a place that appealed: Oceans Ten. [...]

I often have a different budget each time I travel solo, so I’ve stayed at everything from budget hotels to luxury resorts. I usually visit cities, so I like to find a hotel in the center of things. I was recently thinking about how, as a female solo traveler, my lodging needs might be different [...]