Hotel, Airline, Dining, Car and Tech Reviews
Tokyo (東京), Japan’s capital, can be a contradiction in terms. On the one hand, its sheer scale and frenetic pace can be overwhelming. On the other hand, the serene, traditional Tokyo is still there, waiting to be discovered.
The city is officially known as the Tokyo Metropolis and is the seat of the Japanese government and the home of the Imperial Family and Imperial Palace.
The city’s pace can indeed be overwhelming …
Symantec told its customers to immediately stop using its pcAnywhere software while it addresses a security breach and an undisclosed number of bugs.
The pcAnywhere program is a popular program that allows users to remotely access and use another computer, such as a home or office computer.
In a prepared and rather blunt statement, the company said: “At this time, Symantec recommends disabling the product until we release a final set of …
4G Data and Wi-Fi Hotspot Keep Costs Minimal
While planning my most recent trip to Japan, I stopped to think about the fact that my GSM mobile phone wouldn’t work there. On past trips, I used an inexpensive Panasonic mobile phone purchased in Japan that worked with Japanese PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) technology. (Japan uses three incompatible mobile phone technologies and GSM isn’t one of them.)
This time I had a plan …
After an action-packed Friday in Las Vegas, I was looking forward to a nearby getaway where I could leave behind the neon and the noise, but still have quick access to the city, if I needed a little stimulation.
Loews Lake Las Vegas resort was the right antidote to the lights and frenzy of the city – and it was only a 20-minute drive away. I drove up the long, palm-tree …
This is the first in Frequent Business Traveler’s GlobeRunners series. With GlobeRunners, we profile the most frequent frequent business travelers across a broad spectrum of industries. GlobeRunners are those who spend substantial portions of their lives (and amounts of money) in the air, on the road, and checked in. These expert business travelers share their stories, their expertise, and offer their opinions, from favorite airlines and airports, to ways in …
In 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded by a group that included explorers, geographers, cartographers, teachers, and military officers. Its purpose was to “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.”
American Airlines, currently the world’s fourth largest airline (and number three in the U.S.), was founded in 1930 as American Airways.
Generations of business travelers grew up playing with Frisbees, a flying disc that got that moniker in 1957. Wham-O, the …
Newark Liberty International Airport is the New York area’s busiest in terms of flights and it is a major hub for United-Continental. It’s also the airport the furthest distance from my residence.
There is nothing like leaving home with plenty of time to catch a flight, and watching your car’s navigation system predict your arrival to be 15 minutes after your flight will have departed.
Luckily, I had arranged for Gateway Special …
In an age where we carry myriad devices that tell us the time (think smartphone, tablet, or laptop, just to name a few) and time is all around us (look around the room, from the microwave and stove to the DVR/settop box to the clock on the wall), some pundits have gone so far as to say that wristwatches are passé. Indeed, ask someone the time: that person will most …
Stepping inside the glass-and-granite Shinjuku Park Tower in Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood brings a temporary respite to the chaos of the city, as one is whisked to a quiet oasis, the Park Hyatt, a hotel that occupies the top 14 floors of Kenzo Tange’s 235 meter-high architectural masterpiece.
You start on the 41st floor, and you can only go up from there. I was warmly greeted and immediately escorted up to my …
When I booked the leg of my trip that would take me from Brussels to Paris so I could fly home on board Air France’s Airbus A380 to New York’s JFK airport, my Air France “flight” never left the ground. Rather, it is an Air France code share with SNCF French Rail, which operates the TGV.
The TGV, Train à Grand Vitesse in French or high-speed train, capable of going as …
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