Touchdown rainy Singapore. Touchdown the Year of the Dragon. The eve prior, people around the world rang in the Lunar New Year whilst I packed for a week-long child-free holiday — a first since giving birth to my youngest. I arrived in the Lion City with only a handbag and a teeny backpack, oddly feeling…
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Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay
Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay wasn’t just our accommodation. It was THE destination. At least, for our last two days in the country. The only resort on Fiji’s main island Viti Levu to offer overwater bungalows (within a man-made lagoon), it sits on a vast secluded property in Momi Bay about 45 minutes from Nadi…
How You Can Afford Top-Notch Travel Experiences With Deal Grocer
The best travel experiences in this day and age don’t need to cost a small fortune. If you know where to look, you’ll be able to book quality/top-notch accommodations and experiences that are worth way more than the amount you’ll shell out. Today, I answer the age-old question I get all the time, “How can…
Misibis Bay Resort: A Shining, Shimmering Bicol Gem
A canceled flight. A delayed flight. A missed flight. A rescheduled flight. It was a logistical nightmare, yet my daughter and I soldiered on. “Can we just fly back home?”, I remember asking her at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport after finding out we missed our flight to Manila. I also remember being on the verge…
Best Western Plus Lex Cebu’s A Whole Lotta Pluses
Three days past my bedtime and insufficiently caffeinated. I hazily dragged my feet across Best Western Plus Lex Cebu’s lobby, towards the front desk. A couple hours prior, I had just touched down The Queen City of South, and been struggling to stay awake since. While the receptionist breezily processed the check in, my heavy…
Z Hostel: HQ Of Good vibes
Tired and Bedraggled. We trudged up Z Hostel’s entrance stairs and into its spacious lobby. Not far behind me and my 6 year-old Luna was Dong of Eskapo, lugging our 75L hybrid pack. He waited three hours at the airport for our arrival. No, our flight from Cebu wasn’t that delayed, but delayed enough for…
Radisson Blu Cebu: A Break From Vacation
Listlessly I watched my six year-old chase someone across and all around the vast lobby of 5-star international deluxe Radisson Blu Cebu, leaving traces of echoing giggles here and there. About a couple of hours prior, we had just arrived in the Queen City of the South. After a sleepless intercontinental flight the day before…
“Live Like A Local”, They Said. (My Top 10 Fave AirBnb Homes)
The call to prayer echoed through Fez’s donkey dung-smelling alleys and towards the nearby hills. Booming as it was, the noise from the tumultuous crowd of campaigners (election in Morocco was to take place in a few days) three levels below was still very audible. We were on the rooftop of a dar we hired…
Crown Regency Hotel Makati: Layover HQ
The silent, deserted lobby of Crown Regency Plaza Hotel Makati was a refuge. We had just come from a battle with the traffic congestion just outside Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 at an ungodly hour. Like, 2:00 AM ungodly. Our little travel tribe (plus my mum who picked us up from the airport in…
Alila Seminyak, Bali: A Ten-Hour Affair
On a sizzlin’ Saturday, early arvo, the dog-tired motley crew of Trip Of Wonders flooded the lobby of Alila Seminyak whilst I hogged a groovy Kombi parked at the driveway. “Wow look at that view.”, the ladies chorused, heads turned towards the water. “Quick Potpot, picture!,” I almost dragged Travel Trilogy to the vintage VW…