A recent study I spotted in the Daily Mail reveals exactly when the average Brit is switching off for vacation when traveling abroad on a week-ong holiday. It turns out that day 3 at 7 :30 pm is the average time that one relaxes fully into vacation mode. That, to me, is further justification that I’ve been doing the right…
Stitch Fix is an online personal shopping service that allows women to set customized preferences for new additions to their wardrobe. A stylist for the company reviews this data (which includes personal style data, sizing, and feedback from past shipments as well as special requests for an individual box shipment) and hand-selects five pieces for…
Conceptually I love “aspirational travel” (you know, the thought that I could just hop from Four Seasons suite to St. Regis penthouse in between the time on my yacht or my villa in St. Tropez). The reality is for me, that’s a vacation dream at best – an aspirational goal, not a day-to-day reality. I…
American will be making changes to meal service in domestic first class cabins beginning September 1. The move is to standardize service across the board as a continuing step of the merger with US Airways. These first class meal service changes will eliminate plated meals on most flights under 2 hours and 45 minutes. For…
Last week, the SFGate blog posted results from a survey by CouponCodesPro.com on the most and least welcoming cities for travelers. The results surprised me. They REALLY surprised me. New York City as MOST welcoming? Paris as LEAST welcoming? I’d have flipped those based on my most recent visits to both. The five friendliest cities: 1….
Last week lifehacker shared an infographic on hotel WiFi speeds versus availability of free WiFi in those chains. (The original study comes from hotelwifitest.com) Fast hotel WiFi seems to be a rarity, especially those charging for that service! Surprisingly, some the chains most likely to offer free WiFi in most of their properties also have the fastest…
I spotted a couple of fun summer contests today that cover some of my travel necessities – shoes, luggage, wifi, and electronic gadgets. The first is from shoe company Shoes of Prey. I have not yet tried this service but it’s on my “to do” list. Shoes of Prey is an Australian e-commerce company that specializes in…
Yesterday chain restaurant TGI Fridays launched an “endless appetizers” promo, according to USA Today. TGI Fridays is one if those staple restaurants where business travelers might find themselves eating on rare occasion (i.e. flight was delayed and one must quickly pick a late night dinner spot to appease a picky eater colleague who won’t try…
In case you missed it, here’s the weekly recap of what we’ve been talking about on Jetsetter’s Homestead: On Monday, we introduced this blog to the Boarding Area family… … and then on Wednesday, we jumped over to their new site Prior2Boarding. We realized that our Uber driver does not know where we are headed……
I hate early morning flights – and they are even worse when your seat assignment sucks. That seems to be happening to many these days with fully booked flights – someone has to sit in the dreaded middle seats or back rows of the plane. Last week I was nursing my Starbucks in the Admirals…
If you are following this blog, chances are you have either caught the travel bug- that ailment that makes you salivate at the thought of heading somewhere, anywhere that is treated only by hopping on a plane, train, ship, or moving car and treating the madness, but one for which there does not seem to…
“We can’t have it all” – that’s the most current message among women in the executive ranks, an ever-growing contingent of business travelers. It’s a counter-claim to what I was sold in my teens and twenties as we were encouraged to bust through the glass ceiling by day and go home to perfect fulfilled lives…