The birth of Catalina as we know it came when William Wrigley Jr. purchased the island in 1919 and two years later made it the spring training camp of his baseball team, the Chicago Cubs.  With the teams arrival came development and with that came Hollywood’s glitterati, who thought it cool at the time to [...]

 
If money is not an object then there are some amazing experiences to be had…ice hotels, safari tents, a trip to space…but I bet spending the night undersea never came to mind.
Jules’ Undersea Lodge is a two-room mini-hotel located at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. Originally built as [...]

 
Mexico is one country where luxury can be found on a budget; the downside is that what might look like a fabulous resort via the Internet can turn out to be a dump in real life.  I thought this was going to be the case when I booked a four-day all inclusive package trip for [...]

On December 15th of last year, Mammoth Lakes went from a 5-hour drive from LA to a 65-minute commercial flight (via Horizon Air)…ushering in a new era for this once sleepy ski town. 
If room service and luxury hotels are your thing, then Mammoth used to be a resort to skip over…but now with the new [...]

Long ago an aspiring artist, Paul Roux, was the innkeeper of a quaint inn and restaurant called La Colombe d’Or (the golden dove), in the South of France. An aspiring artist himself, he found it hard to turn away starving artists that could not afford a meal or a nights stay…so he would have his [...]