Best Hotels in (Part of) the West
California-centric Sunset magazine shortchanges the rest of the West Sunset magazine’s slogan is “Living in the West,”but the publication might consider changing it to “Living in California and Sometimes in Other More Trivial States.” The new October 2011 issue includes a list of what it deems the 25 best hotels in the West, 13 of which are in [...]
Travel Babel Wins SATW Blog Award
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I am honored that this travel blog received the gold award in the 2011 Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter Writing Awards. The certificate is nice, the check is nice too, but nicest of all are thejudges’ words on an accompanying sheet: “The key to a successful blog is frequent, consistent updating. [...]
Elliott.org’s Top 10 Travel Blogs for 2010
An elite list of high-traffic, high-visibility travel blogs Chris Elliott is an oft-honored travel consumer advocate whose projects include elliottt.org, the go-to site for aggrieved travelers with problems and complaints they can’t get resolved themselves. He annually puts out a list of the best travel blogs around. In his first couple of years, he made the selections himself [...]
Ritz-Carlton, Denver Wins AAA 5 Diamond Honors
Hard-to-attain rating goes to downtown hotel despite an unpromising location The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, has been honored with Five Diamonds from AAA, the only hotel in the Mile High City with that top ranking. AAA says that of the 31,000 lodging properties approved, only 1 percent achieve that lofty rating. The association considers Five Diamond properties [...]
Travel Babel Makes Another "Top" Blog List
More recognition for this blog — this time, from an air-travel site Travel Babel has been getting some awesome recognition lately. AirlineTickets, which sounds like a ticket consolidator site but in fact has some neat travel content, has included this blog in its new list of “Top 35 Travel Blogs.” Again, I find my blog in august [...]








