“They don’t wear sneakers except to the gym” my friend said she learned the hard way when traveling in Europe recently. I had to laugh when she told me this – I really thought everyone knew that you DON’T WEAR SNEAKERS in Europe. Tour operators and writers really should mention […]
A grown woman should not cry in a shoe store but I was tearing up in Benjamin Lovell Shoes in Philly when not one, but eleven boxes of shoes emerged from the stock room in my size. To understand this, you’d need to have size 11 feet like I do […]
For my first flight on United Airlines from Philadelphia, I would be in Terminal D. Having no status with United or Star Alliance, I was happy to pull out my free lounge pass (paper pass will change to digital in 2018), a benefit of my Chase United Mileage Plus Explorer […]
Luxury comes to the Philadelphia Airport in the form of the American Express Centurion Lounge at PHL (PHL Centurion Lounge). As the eighth Centurion lounge in the U.S., the space is warm and welcoming with a mix of woods, warm colors and modern comfort with pops of color (and a […]
There’s a first time for everything they say….I just wish it wasn’t me that had to experience it so often. Over the years, I’ve sat on runways delayed for no reason in the sun and other times sat on the runway because of Airforce One. With nightmare travel days and […]
Leave it to Mom to introduce me to a travel service I’ve seen over the years but never used – The Amtrak Baggage Service with the Red Caps at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. We were scheduled to board the Acela (I got a deal for our Saturday one way […]
Icelandair announced last week that it will start service from Philadelphia to Reykjavik (PHL – KEF) in the summer of 2017. From May 30, 2017 through September 20, 2017, they will fly four times a week between Philadelphia and Reykjavik. That’s big news for Philadelphia International Airport to gain another […]
For over thirty years, the hotel on the Parkway was the legendary Four Seasons Philadelphia. When word came last year that the Four Seasons was closing to move into the new Comcast Center in 2018, the travel/points message boards were guessing who would reflag the hotel. Most agreed that Philadelphia […]
It’s embarrassing to tell you that as a lifelong Philadelphian, I’ve never visited the Rodin Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway until this month. It’s only been here since 1929 and was renovated in 2012. For years, I walked by admiring Rodin’s “The Thinker” outside. A few times, I climbed […]
Playing tourist in my hometown of Philadelphia is so easy to do with a plethora of historic sites, artistic opportunities aplenty and so many restaurants vying for my attention. I’ve started wandering with my IPhone lately taking photos with a new eye of the city. To say, I’ve been surprised […]