Restaurant weeks are ubiquitous across the country, each one giving diners access to affordable, gourmet meals at the nation’s top eateries. This year, for the first time anywhere, Atlanta is home to a new event to highlight hotel restaurants. From April 2 through April 9, you can enjoy a $25 (not including tax and tip) three-course dinner at a multitude of the ATL’s hotspots.
We don't know if this new in-flight safety video from Air New Zealand featuring eccentric weightloss personality Richard Simmons is brilliant. Or brilliantly bad. But it is entertaining.
Follow the high-kicking spandex-clad crew as they do The Pony and The Duck while stowing carry-ons and reaching for oxygen masks. It's not quite Sweatin' to the Oldies, but it does earn beaucoup points on our '80s kitsch-o-meter.
There are views, and then there are v-i-e-w-s. Starting tomorrow, any guest checking into the brand new Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong will get an eyeful of the latter—birds-eye panoramas of Victoria Harbour and the shiny HK skyline. As the world’s “highest” hotel, the record-breaking property now occupies floors 102 to 118 of the well-located International Commerce Center, with 312 rooms in all.
Last year Delta introduced the option for folks to purchase tickets through an app built into their Facebook page. This year, it's taking it a step further, and letting users access its boarding passes without ever leaving Facebook. (The same 24 hours pre-flight time limit that's used on the official Delta site still applies.)
What else can you do?
- Check flight status.
- View trip details.
- View what in-flight amenities will be available for your specific flight.
- Share your flight information with your Facebook contacts.
Pretty cool stuff. (And further proof that Facebook is soon destined to be your one stop spot for, well, everything.)
Joshua Pramis is an online associate editor and resident tech guru at Travel + Leisure. Follow him on Twitter: @joshuapramis
While big, lavish nuptials hold limited charm for me (I eloped, and recommend it for its romance and intimacy), plenty of people are mad for all things wedding, and especially all things William and Kate. Even Dunkin Donuts, friend of the common man, is offering a heart-shaped tribute to the royal couple.
If you’re looking to celebrate the Royal Wedding with something more decadent than a doughnut, we’ve gathered some hotel package options.
This tunnel of books, created by an artist who used mirrors to give the illusion of infinity, can be found in a library somewhere in Europe. Can you guess who the artist is and where this is?
Hint: Science magazine previously featured this sculpture on its cover.
Log in and leave your guesses below and be sure to check back on Monday for the correct answer.
UPDATE 3/28/11: Looks like we finally stumped you guys. Slovak artist, Matej Krén, created this book sculpture, called Idiom, which can be found in the entrance of the Prague Municipal Library at Mariánské náměstí, near the Old Town Square. It's centrally located, near the Staromestska metro station, so you don't have to go out of your way to check this mind-boggling sculpture out. Though nobody guessed the location, T+L community member miguelcarvalho did guess the artist correctly. Check out more images of this sculpture here.
Lyndsey Matthews is an online editorial assistant at Travel + Leisure.
Ever wished you could hold up a photo to a search engine and say, “Hey computer! Find me this, and make it snappy!”?
With Google Search (free; iPhone, iPod, iPad), a picture is worth a thousand keywords. The newly upgraded app makes it even easier to scour the Web with images straight from your smartphone camera.
This spring, visitors to Las Vegas can run away and join the Cirque (but not for peanuts). For $260, a select few will get a small-group pre-show backstage tour to either O (at the Bellagio) or The Beatles’ Love (at the Mirage). You’ll also receive an Insider Access VIP lanyard, special reserved seats for the show, and front-of-line privileges in the concession line and at the hotels’ nightclubs after the show.
On the fence about taking the tour? Here’s a Life.com photo gallery of the backstage scene at a Cirque du Soleil show—acrobats rehearsing a tricky move, clowns at rest, outlandish-costume repair—that gives you an inkling of how thrilling it could be to witness in person. (Get this: during each performance of The Beatles’ Love, the 68 performers go through 331 multi-piece costumes and 110 wigs! Kind of puts getting two kids ready for school into perspective.)
Sometimes all you want to do is hop in the car or take a short flight to your next destination. Which is why this week, Vacationist brings you deals at domestic hotels within driving distance of major U.S. cities, from a newly-renovated Los Angeles mainstay to a mega-resort outside of Houston and a ski lodge in Vail, less than two hours from Denver. Hit the road now.
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There’s a new hangout in Buenos Aires for guests staying at Oasis Collections properties. Six months and $200,000 in the making, The Oasis Clubhouse debuted this past weekend in the dining and shopping enclave of Palermo Soho. All patrons staying at an Oasis Collections design-focused condo, apartment, or villa in the city have access to the clubhouse.
