Posts under ‘Lodging’

Welcome to SoloFriendly.com, a blog for solo travelers! If you like what you see, I hope you’ll subscribe to my RSS feed and/or fan me on Facebook. Thanks for visiting!Anyone who says that to have a luxury hotel experience, you must sacrifice character, history, and culture hasn’t stayed at El Convento. This boutique luxury [...]

On every trip I take, I learn a little bit more about my travel style, my likes and dislikes. On my trip to San Juan, I came to the startling revelation that generic chain resorts–especially if they’re not within easy walking distance of the local culture, a variety of dining options, and nighttime entertainment–are not [...]

Do you have this problem, too?  I love to travel, but have limited resources.  I’m not interested in staying at fleabag dumps just so I can travel, but if I pay $200+/night for hotel, then I can’t travel as much as I want to.  There’s got to be a happy medium, right?  My preferred lodging [...]

I had the pleasure of staying at Treasure Island on the Las Vegas Strip for four nights in September.  As I did with my Flamingo Las Vegas review, I will provide my review of the hotel in 2 parts: First, the “quick and dirty” review for those of you with short attention spans, followed by [...]

My observations of my recent stay at the Flamingo Las Vegas can be found below in two parts:  The first part is the “Quick and Dirty” review for those of you with limited attention spans, and the second part contains all the gory details.
The Quick and Dirty Review:
The Pros

The GO rooms at the Flamingo are [...]

Thanks to Priceline, I was able to stay at The Hyatt Regency in Montreal last Saturday night for $95 (including taxes and fees).  How did I like this hotel?  Very much, as it turns out.  Though it is not without its flaws (and design challenges!), it is a fine hotel in a very convenient location.  [...]

One of the challenges for solo travelers is the fact that whenever we travel, we’re paying twice as much for our hotel room as an individual who is traveling (and sharing a room) with someone else does.  Most hotels just don’t build rooms for solos; they’re built for double occupancy.  So one of my biggest [...]

Attention, ladies!  If you are a solo female traveler–or have ever thought of becoming one–you should know about this opportunity.  Hostelbookers.com has a survey at their website right now geared toward women who travel alone.  They are trying to collect information about how we feel about various travel subjects, so if you want your voice [...]

JustCaribbean.com, an independent UK Tour Operator, contacted me via Twitter yesterday to let me know about a vacation deal for solo travelers at La Source Grenada, and I wanted to pass it on to you. If you have ever even considered solo travel before, you are probably painfully well aware how rare it is to [...]

I took over 1,000 photos at Disney World last month.  I still haven’t finished going through them all.  But I thought I’d share a few more of my favorites with you.  Here are some that were taken at various resorts on Disney property.  I spent a fair amount of time “resort hopping,” touring around the [...]