For US citizens (and several other nationalities) going to Vietnam requires a visa. Some places you can just do all the visa work at the airport, other places require you to get a letter of approval before hand. Vietnam is one of those. Before Vietnam I'd really only done one intense visa process and it [...]
Hot Chocolate? What's so exciting about that? Well- okay, I see, but wait just a moment. Have you seen those balls of chocolate that when they pour stuff on it (more chocolate/milk) and it just falls apart? That's this. Fancy, high quality, (expensive) hot chocolate. Mika did a whole staycation where she hopped around hotels on [...]
In Korea they celebrate 설날 (Lunar New Year). This year it was a 5 day weekend early in February. I made plans on different days with friends and decided to save myself the stress of traveling back and forth to Seoul and to make up for a sad birthday so I booked myself a stay at the Hotel [...]
For Chuseok, we decided it'd probably be best to stay downtown so my friend picked out a hotel and got out of work early to meet up with our other friend and to check in. It was one of her first weekends in South Korea and it was her first time going downtown on her own. She [...]
My friend and I booked a room at the APA Hotel in Shibuya, partly because it looked nice but mostly because it was the only thing available when we tried looking for a place to stay while I'd be visiting. (The problem with last minute trips during holidays). We were pretty impressed at first. It [...]
During our teachers retreat to Ganghwa we stayed at a pension called Marina. It was peaceful and within walking distance of the mud flats. There was a pool, a garden, and at least 1 dog, 2 cats, and 5 kittens. The rooms were very basic, just large empty rooms with a small kitchen, a tv [...]
Last time we went to Virginia and up on the Skyline Drive we stopped to eat at a restaurant over looking the mountains. It was gorgeous, somewhat fancy and I couldn't remember which one it was, and after stopping at the wrong spot we backtracked and found it again at Skyland. Skyland existed long before [...]
After my trip with my aunt, uncle, and cousins to Wisconsin I met up with my sisters and parents and headed to Virginia for a cousins wedding and family reunion. We stayed for a night at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel, which opened in 1924. It has a nice old-fashioned classy air to it and parking [...]
There are several Tune Hotels in London. STA had given me a list of hotels and I picked Tune because my cousin said she had stayed there before. It was a miscommunication, I thought she meant she had stayed at that specific one, she meant she had stayed at a Tune Hotel. So when she [...]
While most of my classmates stayed at the hostel, one classmate stayed at Hotel Clement with a different department. Our department had a joint session with them at the Hotel, and occasionally we would meet them there before going out to explore. The department that was staying there complained about the internet, but it wasn't [...]
