The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
It may be the roof of the world, but getting into Tibet (the Tibet Autonomous Region, or TAR) and traveling around isn’t easy. You’ll need a special permit just to get on the train—and if you step outside of Lhasa, yet another permit to get anywhere else ... Read More
Some say the Chinese invented golf via an ancient game called chuiwan. That’s rubbish, of course. The Scots invented the modern game of golf, and Asia’s first modern course opened in Kobe, Japan, only in 1905. But over the last two decades, there’s no denying Asia has ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
Thousands of islands make up the Zhoushan archipelago just off the coast of Ningbo—ranging from Zhoushan proper at 500 sq. kilometers to elbows of grey granite jutting up out of the slate green sea. Traditionally it played home to pirates, fishermen, Buddhist recluses and Daoist weirdos. And while Putuoshan ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
Getting to spend the night at a dinosaur museum sounds too cool to be true, but you can really do it at the Yizhou Fossil Museum in Liaoning. The area around Yizhou is a treasure trove of dinosaur bones and other fossils. It was around here where Sinosauropteryx, the feathered ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
There are plenty of quaint water towns not far from Shanghai, ranging from the ramshackle (Xinchang) to the kitschy (Zhujiajiao). None are better than Wuzhen, though. A hundred kilometers southwest of Shanghai, Wuzhen has done an admirable job balancing preservation with commercialism. Few expats leave there disappointed.
Wuzhen is neither ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
This wonderful seaside city in southern California just made the New York Times’ list of the top 45 places in the world to visit in 2012. Their reason was San Diego’s booming microbrew scene, but as far as we’re concerned, Balboa Park, Coronado Island and 70 miles of ... Read More
In Weibo Watch, City Weekend takes a look at the most talked about topic circulating China's biggest microblogging site. This week there is a big debate about who the world's worst tourists are. What are Chinese netizens saying?
We all have our problems when traveling; that's why ... Read More
Many a Beijing spa claims to use ayurvedic techniques, but to our knowledge, the Avaida Therapy Lounge in Hangzhou is the first therapy center completely steeped in Indian medical lore. We spent a day at Avaida for a first-hand feel for this ancient and rather mysterious tradition.
On a hill ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
The new Genting Secret Garden Resort makes Zhangjiakou a top winter sports destination. We take a look at the newest ski resort in the area.
When it comes to winter sports in China, Yabuli has long been considered the best. But with the recent opening of a third ski resort ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
Volunteer holidays are a tough sell. Holidays are supposed to be about fun and relaxation—a break from reality if you will. Volunteer holidays, on the other hand, serve up reality in spades and often at greater cost. A holiday spent making the world a better place, however, is a ... Read More
Mongolia in winter is a massive deep freeze―probably the closest you will ever get to Antarctica. Nighttime temps dip down to -40 degrees Celsius. It’s a dry cold, but that hardly matters when the sharpest coldest wind you’ve ever felt slices right through all of your technologically ... Read More
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read More
Train travel is one of the defining Asia experiences, and often not in a good way. Toilets of horror, bunkmates who snore, the incredible mafan of organizing the next leg—all are part of the fun. But on these luxury trains, the journey is a destination you’ll want to ... Read More
It's the time of year for awards and one of the most highly anticipated set of awards is Conde Nast Traveler's Gold List. A place on the list means prestige and publicity for recipients. In other words, it's a big deal. Last year we reported on The ... Read More
TripAdvisor just released their top 25 Chinese hotels of 2011--as chosen by "travelers" (i.e. those who leave reviews on their site). The best Beijing-based hotel isn't Opposite House, like you might expect, or even a charming little B&B hidden away in the hutongs. It's Hotel ... Read More
The top destination these days for China’s monied elite is The Maldives, the archipelago in the Indian Ocean which is sinking about a centimeter a year. It’s a strange kind of paradise, split between an impoverished capital (Male) and a string of ridiculously expensive resorts spread over 60 ... Read More
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