Category: Hotels

InterContinental Grand Stanford, Hong Kong

by gavin, posted in Hotels, Travel

I was in Hong Kong for a week for a well deserved holiday and one of the perks of working for who I work for is being able to use the corporate hotel rates, and perks, when on holidays.

I hadn’t been to Hong Kong for 6 years and wanted to stay on the Kowloon side of the harbour. Luckily the InterContinental Grand Stanford in is Tsim Sha Tsui East, just a quick walk from the Tsim Sha Tsui East and Tsim Sha Tsui MTR stations and the Star Ferry.

InterContinental Grand Stanford, East Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

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Stamford Plaza, Adelaide, Australia

by gavin, posted in Hotels, Travel

Do you ever have that sense of foreboding when you turn up at a hotel? Sometimes its just the fear of the unknown and the upcoming adventure then everything turns out fine… Then there’s the other times. This is one of those times!

I guess I’ve just been spoiled by the first class, luxury hotels I’ve stayed at for the past 5 years. So when you end up in a supposedly decent hotel, and you get a room that only has two single beds and looks like it was last refurbed in the 80s, including a cork bulletin board in the room (wtf were these people thinking!) I get a tad disappointed.

Stamford Plaza, Adelaide, Australia

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The Bolton Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand

by gavin, posted in Hotels, Travel

This was my second stay at The Bolton Hotel in Wellington. In a previous job I’d stayed here for a couple of night right after the hotel opened back in 2004 (I think it was ’04… it was a boozy trip… so the memories have faded!).

The hotel is just off The Terrace in a really convenient location near the Beehive and just a 15 minutes walk to where I was working.

The Bolton Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand

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InterContinental Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

by gavin, posted in Hotels, Travel

I’ve never stayed at a bad InterContinental hotel, and the InterContinental Bangkok is no exception.

As I walked out of immigration at the new Bangkok airport I felt like I was a welcomed guest and my BMW limo was waiting to drive me to the hotel.

InterContinental Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

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Don’t you just hate it when…

by gavin, posted in Hotels, Restaurants, Travel

you end up in a swish hotel in a new city. You don’t know your way around, so you play it safe for a couple of days by eating at your hotel.

Towards the end of the week you have some spare time, as you’ve completed your work early, so you decided to do a little reconnaissance mission around the neighborhood you’ve been staying in, and during that trip you find several local food halls that offer the same quality and quantity of food that you’ve been eating at the hotel, with the major exception that the price is around 10% of what you were paying previously.

Well… welcome to my week in Bangkok!