New Luxury Camp Near Yellowstone
Yellowstone Under Canvas is a new luxury camp near West Yellowstone, Montana with its premiere season from May 14 to September 13. It is part of an international movement called “glamping,” which refers to luxury camping — a contraction of “glamour” and “camping.”
New Gondola Planned for Vail
From gondola to VistaBahn to gondola in exactly 50 years Vail Mountain opened in 1962 with a small gondola and a couple of chairlifts along U.S. Highway 6 in the middle of the Colorado Rockies. Back in the day, it debuted as one the country’s most extensive ski areas, and it has never lost its [...]
Colorado Hosts Great Cycling Competitions
No more Lance in France, but he’s still racing in Colorado No question that bike racing — on the road and on dirt — is bigger than big in Colorado these days. Case in point: Yesterday’s Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey (AO), the last of three mountain bike races held across the nation as qualifiers for [...]
Air Pacific Cancels Dreamliner Order & Offers Dream Air Fare
No Boeing Dreamliner in foreseeable future, but Air Pac rolls out a dream of an air fare Air Pacific has canceled its order for eight of the multiply delayed Boeing 787 Dreamliners to replace its 747 and 767 widebody fleet. Even the flag carrier of the island nation that largely operates on “Fiji Time,” where [...]
Tsunami Update from the Big Island
Tsunami damage on the Big Island of Hawaii is trivial compared the the destruction suffered in Japan, but tourist sites impacted Of the major Hawaian islands, I especially like the Big Island. The two major cities, Hilo and Kailua-Kona, feel like real towns that welcome tourists rather than tourist towns. Native Hawaiian antiquities, including petroglyphs [...]
New Website Features Beachfront Hotels
Beachfront & slopeside: two environments, same convenient idea Vintage Hotel at the base of Winter Park. Right now, I am at the hotel at the base of the tram at Alaska’s Alyeska Resort. Visitors grab skis and snowboard (the rental shop and equipment check) are on on the second floor of the hotel, walk a few hundred [...]
Big Skiing & Big Values in the Big Sky State
Two adjoining Montana resorts’ combined trail systems offer the biggest, most varied ski terrain in the U.S. — and no liftlines Big Sky Resort, founded nearly 30 years ago, grew organically. It started with 1970s technology and aesthetic and has replaced original lifts with newer ones, added terrain in every direction, 15 years ago installed a tram to Lone Peak’s 11,166-foot [...]
Get Connected at Puerto Vallarta Resort
Luxury boutique hotel helps guests connect the 21st-century way A lot of people are intending to get savvy or savvier about social media — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. — but never get around to it. Casa Velas near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico now helps guests get a handle on 21st-century communications at with three free social media [...]
Affordable Aspen
You can spend a lot or a little in Colorado’s most glamorous resort town I just returned from a couple of days in Aspen, the first time in several years during the non-snow season. As I wandered around town, which is pretty quiet until Food and Wine Classic in Aspen rolls in during the third weekend [...]
Carry-Ons in the Overhead? Spirit Charges $45
Nudist resorts jump on this lousy new policy to promote the “Nakation” concept Spirit Airlines has positioned itself as a low-fare airline, further dangling the carrot of attractive MasterCard benefits in front of passengers. But now they’ve added a cruel new stick, if you’ll excuse the scrambled metaphor, by charging $45 (yes, forty-five dollars) for each [...]
