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Posted by emcnulty on 06 15th, 2010
There’s a new Kimpton in town (NYC, that is), the Eventi. I stopped there for a night recently to check it out. Its location is ideal if you are traveling by train as it is close by Penn Station though the immediate neighborhood still doesn’t...
Posted by emcnulty on 05 20th, 2010
Terminal A at Boston’s Logan Airport features the new full body scanners at security and I took my second trip through about a half-an-hour ago. I don’t know if they make us any safer (and I wish the TSA would at least buy me a drink...
Posted by emcnulty on 05 11th, 2010
Hotel restaurants seem to be going incognito more and more. On sites like Open Table present the restaurants as stand-alone concerns, I assume by design of the client, which can be fine — or not. I admit that I generally steer away from hotel...
Posted by emcnulty on 04 10th, 2010
A few weeks back, the good folks at The Economist’s Gulliver travel blog wrote an amusing piece about packing like a journalist. Lately, that is more likely to mean dumping your desk into a box and heading for the unemployment line than filling...
Posted by emcnulty on 04 8th, 2010
As a frequent business traveler, I’m always conscious of the airline fees that can drive a “cheap” ticket into something much more expensive — and more of pain. Spirit Airlines announcement yesterday that they are starting...
Posted by emcnulty on 03 28th, 2010
If there is one topic guaranteed to spur spirited debate among business travelers it is airline seats — which are bearable and which are not, which rows are preferable on which aircraft, and how best to get a coveted upgrade and the extra leg...
Posted by emcnulty on 03 22nd, 2010
For those of us who worry about our eco-impact, it is increasingly complicated to understand which of our travel choices help or hurt our efforts. Nomads, after all, are known for light footprints when traveling. It’s easy when weighing subway...
Posted by emcnulty on 03 5th, 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot about craft lately. One hears about the art of travel — mostly in what’s left of the glossy magazines and usually with regard to some grand adventure, not business travel. I think that craft is a much...