It’s a truism – not to mention a first world problem – to say that once you’ve experienced first class air travel, you’ll never want to turn right on an airplane ever again. Unfortunately, as habits go, paying for upgraded travel makes heroin look cost-effective – costing somewhere in the order of $1,000 an hour [...]

It is impossible for me to overstate how important good hand luggage is to me. Ever since the day, four years ago, that I sold almost all of my possessions and embarked on a new life living only in hotels, my entire life has been packed into a single carry-on bag. In many ways, my [...]

Like most hotel-dwellers, I have a bucket list of hotels I want to stay in before I die. Not necessarily properties outside my price range — just ones that I haven’t yet had the chance to visit. Until this week, one such hotel was the The Huntington in San Francisco, perched on top of Nob [...]