Hotel Name: Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park. Address: 1199 Ying Chun Road, Pudong – New Int’l Expo Center, Shanghai, China. [Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park, Shanghai – China] I stayed at the Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park. I had been to Shanghai a few times before but I had never stayed on […]
Notes on Shanghai: revisiting an old favourite
I was last in Shanghai three years ago and I spent about a month in the city. When I came here in 2010 I was actually considering moving to Shanghai – that is how much I liked it. As it turned out I could only get a tourist visa that required leaving the country every […]
Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing, China (the best view in Chongqing)
Hotel Name: Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing. Address: No.22 Nanbin Road, Nan’an, Chongqing, China. [Radisson BLU on the Yangtze – Chongqing.] I stayed at the Radisson Blu Plaza Chongqing as a guest of Club Carlson, who I was working with on their Global Travelers campaign. The hotel is on the south bank of the Yangtze River […]
Notes on Chongqing: the megacity of Southwest China
I first visited Chongqing in 2010 where I made a stopover on my way from Xi’an to Chengdu, and I recall having to look it up to see where it was. Turns out that Chongqing is technically the largest city in China (if ranked by administrative area). [Chongqing – one enormous city!] Is Chongqing the […]
Hotel Review: Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Jaipur, India
[Edit: The Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Jaipur has since been rebranded as Hotel Radisson Jaipur City Center. This review remains as an archive.] Hotel Name: Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Jaipur Address: Khasa Kothi Circle, M I Road, Jaipur, India I stayed at the Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Jaipur as […]
Notes on Jaipur: forts and palaces
I came to Jaipur in 2011 and I had Delhi belly (I had just come from Delhi and got sick when I arrived, so I’m calling it Delhi). As a result, I didn’t see much of Jaipur the first time around, so now I had the chance to see what I missed. Forts and Palaces […]
Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Temple Bay Resort at Mahabalipuram, Mamallapuram – India
Hotel Name: Radisson Blu Temple Bay Resort at Mahabalipuram Address: Kovalam Road, Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram), Tamil Nadu, India. I stayed at the Radisson Blu Temple Bay Resort at Mahabalipuram as a guest of Club Carlson, on behalf of their Global Travelers campaign. Mahabalipuram (formerly known as Mamallapuram) is in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. This […]
Notes on Mamallapuram
My first time to India was in 2007 where I visited Mumbai and some of the southern states. I was told that the south is so more relaxed than the north, but having never been to the north I had no way of comparing. I came back to India again in 2011, this time flying […]
Hotel Review: Park Plaza Sukhumvit Hotel, Bangkok – Centrally located near Asoke BTS
Hotel Name: Park Plaza Sukhumvit Hotel Address: 16 Ratchadapisek Road, BTS Asoke Station Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand. I stayed at the Park Plaza Sukhumvit Hotel as a guest of Club Carlson, who I was working with on their Global Travelers campaign. The hotel is located a few minutes walk from the Asok BTS station on Sukhumvit, […]
Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Plaza Resort Phuket Panwa Beach, Phuket – Thailand
EDIT: The Radisson Blu Plaza Resort Phuket has been taken over by AccorHotels and was rebranded as the Pullman Phuket Panwa Beach Resort in April 2016. This article is left online as an archive. Hotel Name: Radisson Blu Plaza Resort Phuket Panwa Beach Address: 44/5 Moo 8 Sakdidesh Road, Panwa Cape, Phuket, Thailand I stayed […]
