Luxury Travel Archives - Page 12 of 28

LISBON

Let’s talk about Lisbon. This is one of the most underrated capitals in Western Europe. This capital city started as a trading port back in 1200 BC. However, most of the capital city was destroyed in an earthquake in the 1700s. Lisbon has the nickname of the “City of Light”. In this blog, we are going to talk about some of the things that it is most known for and what you can experience if you were to go and visit this European capital city.

December 9, 2022 No Comments

NEW YORK CITY

Hello New York City. I have just visited this vibrant city for the first time over Thanksgiving 2022. This location is so full of activity, people and things to do. We stayed in the Upper West Side (so we could catch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade as well, but we visited several other areas of the city while we were there. Of course, it was certainly more challenging than a normal travel trip for me as I have a broken foot. So I was viewing a lot of New York City from a wheelchair so that my family didn’t have to move as slow as I could walk in my walking cast.

December 2, 2022 No Comments

THANKSGIVING POST

As Thanksgiving was yesterday (2022) I thought this week’s blog would be short and sweet and just a heartfelt thanks to all of my clients for being so wonderful and trusting Amore Travel Designs to help design/execute their vacations. Thank you also for all the wonderful referrals you have sent to us as well. So this Thanksgiving post is to you. Cheers to a wonderful holiday season and a bright 2023.

November 25, 2022 No Comments

FEBRUARY GETAWAYS

As my recent blogs and newsletters have been about festive travel and such, I thought, where to next when we are past the festive season. Of course, this will depend on whether you want a warm destination or one geared towards snowy activities. However, where would people want to go in February for example, when they are past family visiting, holiday meals and just need some R&R. Well, let’s see if we can dive into some possibilities for February Getaways.

November 18, 2022 No Comments

FESTIVE TRAVEL

I have been commenting on my weekly newsletter about festive travel. So I thought now might be a good time to post a blog about it as well. So what is festive travel? Festive travel is traveling during the holidsays, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. I am going to try to highlight a few “favorites” for festive travel in this blog post.

November 11, 2022 No Comments

BAHA MAR

I had the pleasure of visiting Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas this past week. I stayed at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, but there are several properties connected all together. There is the Rosewood Baha Mar and SLS (which are both Virtuoso properties). During the covid period, they also spent over 200 million building a very large water park.

November 4, 2022 1 Comment

SECURITY LINES

I just returned from Italy on Sunday, and walking through our airport in Denver, I was flabbergasted by the long security lines. They were wrapping all the way around the baggage claim areas. There were so many stressed travelers standing in these lines, that I thought this might be a moment for another blog post about the security lines at the airports.

October 21, 2022 1 Comment

TUSCANY WINE ESTATE

Richard and I decided to get out of Florence for a day to visit a picturesque wine estate in Tuscany. The property was called Torre A Cona. It was built in 1066 originally as a castle, and later changed to a country estate . There are many buildings on the property now, to include an Enoteca, a large cellar and wine making buildings, as well as a hotel and some private villas/apartments. Torre A Cona has a large swimming (with a second on the horizon) as well a restaurant and bar area. This Tuscany wine estate is a great way to see the iconic Tuscan countryside.

October 13, 2022 3 Comments

TUSCANY ITALY

Richard and I are off to Italy next week and we are so ready to go (well, except I haven’t started packing at all yet). But we cannot wait to be back in our favorite country together this time. While thinking about my blog for this week, I thought it should be about Italy in some fashion. I am actually returning to Italy in November too for a wine/luxury hotel conference, and we are staying in Barga, which is an area of Tuscany Italy I haven’t been to before.

September 30, 2022 No Comments

ETIAS VISA WAIVER

Travel has come back with a bang! Since the pandemic hit, I think we all forgot about the visa that was to be implemented in 2022 for Americans to visit Europe. So I thought this week’s blog would be on this topic. ETIAS visa waiver stands for European Travel Information and Authorization System.

September 23, 2022 1 Comment