Recent Travel Reviews

nice comfortable and spacious rooms. All in service. Food could be better and the dishes in the restaurant are almost always wet, so reach for the ones by the grill where they're dry. Good desserts though. Excellent swimming pools, the water has got an excellent temperature. Good evening animation shows. Poolbar where you can sit in the swimming pool. This is the pool where the animation is duri…

I stayed at Fukuoka Youth Hostel for one night. This hostel is clean, but does not have much atmosphere. The rooms are mostly private 2-bed rooms. The beds are okay. The showers are clean and there is also a bath. Internet facilities are free, there are two internet computers and there is WIFI available. This is not really a place to meet fellow backpackers, it seems more like a place where people…

I would be remiss if I failed to do a review on the Cockpit Lounge at the Soekarno-Hatta International airport in Jakarta (Also known as the Jet Lounge Bar). Asri and I have been here 3 different times and spent several hours in the Cockpit. Our first visit was in July 2009 when my flight to Kuala Lumpur was delayed for 7 hours and she spent the entire evening keeping me company here. Our second v…

Back in coron after 5months.... well its just not a vacation for me its also my way of celebrating my birthday outside Manila.. we stayed there for 5 days and here's how the story goes!! Friday - our first day " rest day " from office to the airport we arrived in coron at around 3pm... bob shai, Bob rene, Bob Argel, Bob Henry and the rest of the Parokya welcomed us... we took our lunch and we…

The Pandawa restaurant at the Mercure Resort was one of my favorite places to eat in Bali! Its hours are from 06:30 to 23:00, with 24 hour room service. The restaurant has an open stage which features dinner with shows on certain days. They specialize in European and Asian cuisine. We only ate here for our breakfast each morning, but if breakfast is any indication of what is on the menu for lunch …

“The Lounge” is a grand cafe and lounge at Klapa. It opens from breakfast until 10pm, serving everything from International to modern Asian fusion cuisine. The lounge has a grand garden plaza of 1,000 sqm. where one can find a swimming pool and spacious sun decks, bar, and gallery all in one area. The restaurant is all enclosed with air conditioning, and floor to ceiling windows that offer gre…

I've spent three nights in Higashiyama Youth hostel in Kyoto. The hostel is near the Tozai subway line station Higashiyama. The temples, shrines and Gion district are nearby. The hostel staff is friendly, but nothing more than that. Everywhere in the hostel you find signs "Don't open door", "Don't Laundry here", "Don't take food and eat here" etc. This makes you feel a bit like a little child a…

about 109 dollars to reserve, its best to actually turn up as you save about 30 dollars according to people who joined us later. its nothing special and if just for sleep, id probably say a hostel. benefits include it was right across the road from the train station so ease for the transition from the airport

This is the worst hostel I've ever dealt with. I made a reservation a few hours before I stayed there. As such I didn't have the opportunity to print out a map with the location. There were no directions given to get to their hostel, so I called for directions. The lady on the phone **refused** to give me directions. How hard is it to say "go over the bridge, make a slight right, go through x …

La Maison des Crëpes is a nice and cozy lunch and light meal restaurant in the heart of Bruxelles only a stone throw from the Bourse and 200 meters from Grand Place towards the Moroccan area along Avenue Anspach. As its name suggests it is a place that bases itself on crëpes; either as main meal or a desert. They have a quite large menu and there are a fantastic variety of choices to pick fr…