Hotel Happy
Last time I wrote, a few weeks back, I explained why myself and the hostels of the world have had something of a parting over the last couple of years as I’ve gotten more into using cheaper hotels instead, largely for the comfort offered by much the same price, not to mention the relative safety of leaving belongings on my bed compared with hostelling. In the interests of fairness though, it seems rude not to mention what I’ve noticed about... Read More
The 3 P’s of Good Hostelling
Back in my backpacking heyday, I was one of hostelling’s more frequent customers and in all, have stayed in an amount of hostels somewhere just under the 100 figure. I’ve seen good ones, bad ones, completely deplorable ones and have seen enough that while it was fun (sometimes) at the time, I’m happy enough that I now aspire more regularly to budget hotels (or reasonably priced full-service hotels) on most occasions. That said, I do still however... Read More
The Can & Cannot’s of Train Travel – Part II
It was a big NO, for the Nozomi... From the positively ‘cannot’ to the ‘maybe can’, train travel can be a fun, scenic and enjoyable way to get around. But it can also be awful – having talked about the two absolute worst-case scenarios yesterday, here we look at things that aren’t as bad…although still frequently unfortunate. Savings, what savings? Across the world, I’ve paid a wide variety of prices for train travel. In Ireland... Read More
Greetings from Ireland…
Dublin, it’s been a while. Last August, with great excitement and a degree of anxiety, I left the country bound for an unusual emigration outpost; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over there, I took up what was by all means a quite successful internship for six months, where along with the work at hand, I made contacts and all that good stuff, and wound up with plenty of work on my plate from others. Roll on a few months and March 2011 sees me standing,... Read More
And Then There Was The Price…
Andy Mac reads up on what else is available at Genting... To be honest, it didn’t take us too long before we were able to draw the parallels between somewhere like Disneyland and the Genting Highlands; everything costs money, a whole heap of it in fact. The local ‘convenience store’ when you’re a few thousand feet up in the air doesn’t sell bottles of water for a Ringgit like my local Carrefour Express; it sells them for at least 5 Ringgit.... Read More
