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Passion for Italy Podcast Episode #19 Why Aren’t You in Italy? · Passion For Italy Travel

Yudi Pratama, September 7, 2024

Welcome to your adventure in Italy that you are going to do in the future maybe next year or the year after. I have been reading a lot lately about how to make the most of life and how to create it and make it happen.

Mid life we all need to stop and take a pause. The only good thing to come out of Covid was that the world paused. It gave us a lot of time to breathe and think and assess our lives and relationships. I’m sure a lot of people thought about how one wishes to spend the rest of your life.

What is stopping you from traveling other than the price? Is it afraid of flying? Or is it just fear in general – You don’t know where to go? Do you have problems sleeping in strange beds? Maybe your partner doesn’t want to travel

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Passion for Italy Podcast Episode #20 A Conversation About Rome · Passion For Italy Travel

Yudi Pratama, August 28, 2024

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In this episode of the Passion for Italy Travel Podcast, Joe Mulinaro joins the PFIT team to discuss a recent trip to Rome. Joe invited a guest, his wife Lori, to discuss any positives and negatives she had with this trip.

Joe Mulinaro joins the Passion for Italy Travel crew. He will be having a number of guests join him to discuss their trip to Italy.
In this episode of the Podcast, Joe invites his wife, Lori, to discuss her recent trip to Italy where they visited Rome, Florence, Positano, and Capri.
In this first show, they discuss the Rome portion of the vacation. They start with their planning and flight.
The episode continues with five days of filling their agenda with all the major points of Rome.
Monti District, Santa Maria Maggiore, Spanish Steps, Piazza Republica, Altar of

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From Sorrento To Positano, These Are Tablet Hotels Top 17 for 2023

Yudi Pratama, July 21, 2023

Morning view of Amalfi cityscape on coast line of mediterranean sea, Italy

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For centuries the dramatic appeal of the Amalfi Coast has attracted some of the most famous people in the world, from Roman nobles to legendary writers and celebrities. The steep winding mountains and cascading cliffs are covered with stunning villas and hotels making this one of the most popular Summer destinations in the world. Positano, Ravello, and Amalfi are the area’s most frequented places, with so many crowds during the high season it is almost unbearable.

You can take a ferry along the coast from Naples, Sorrento, and travel easily to Salerno and Positano, while visiting all of the towns in between. Taking a car is a nightmare during the high season with delays lasting several hours at times through the narrow switchbacks high on the cliffsides. Make sure to book your visit to the area at

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Federal judge appoints expert to oversee Oregon agency that has been housing foster kids in hotels

Yudi Pratama, July 20, 2023

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Two new Riverwalk hotels, Galleria apartments and more are now planned for Rock Hill

Yudi Pratama, July 16, 2023

New hotels at Riverwalk and apartments near the Galleria Mall are just some of the latest development happenings in Rock Hill.

The city planning commission will meet Tuesday night with a full agenda of potential projects. Most involve major site plan approval, something the commission can grant without city council approval and also something that’s needed for large development projects.

Here’s a look at what they city has on the table:

▪ Hawkeye Hotels of Iowa applied for major site plan approval for two hotel buildings at 328 Marburg Lane. The 6-acre property is between the Rock Hill Velodrome and the Lidl grocery store. Submitted plans show two hotels there, each at four stories.

Each hotel would be more than 82,000 square feet. A layout submitted to the city doesn’t name the hotel brands, but a separate architectural rendering lists a Residence Inn by Marriott.

▪ The Warren Norman Company

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How to Spend a Weekend at Three Hotels From Our 2023 Hot List

Yudi Pratama, July 12, 2023

Presented by Capital One.

With these three Hot List 2023 hotel winners, there is as much to do beyond their doors as there is behind them—from epic hiking trails to museum hopping. Here’s how to turn an overnight into a proper stay, complete with planning tips in New York’s Hudson Valley, Miami, and Los Angeles.

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Wildflower Farms, Auberge Resorts Collection, Gardiner, New York

In the recent wave of high-end hotels to come to the Mid-Hudson region, Wildflower Farms, Auberge Resorts Collection, on the Catskills side of the river, is undoubtedly the most luxurious. But it’s not out of character with its surroundings, because what it offers is a luxury place. Set in a generous swath of meadow and woodland beneath the iconic Shawangunk Mountains, the property pays tribute to the beauty of the

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Most Unusual Hotel Room Service Requests

Yudi Pratama, July 11, 2023

Melted ice cream. Diet water. Cockle popcorn.

Apparently, these are all things that people have tried to order from hotel room service.

Hotels.com’s inaugural “Room Service Report” reveals some of the most unusual requests from guests, as shared by hotel staff members. The booking platform conducted a survey among 473 hotels in 10 countries in April to assess the state of in-room dining these days.

The list of the top 10 oddest requests also includes boiled bottled water and a fish that a guest caught and wanted cooked to order. Here’s the survey’s complete list:

Diet water.
Melted ice cream.
blowfish.
Boiled bottled water.
A cooked fish that the guest brought with them.
Cockle popcorn.
No-egg-white omelette.
Rice bowl for a dog.
Bison.
Eggless eggs in hell (shakshuka).

Looking beyond strange requests, the report finds that burgers are the most popular room service order, both in the United States and

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10 of the best hotels and inns in Wales | Wales holidays

Yudi Pratama, July 8, 2023

King Arthur Hotel, Reynoldston, The Gower

Often overlooked for the Pembrokeshire coastline, the Gower boasts some of the UK’s most spectacular beaches, including Rhossili, Oxwich and Three Cliffs Bay. The King Arthur is set inland, but has a fantastic position overlooking the village green, with locals and visitors massing on sunny days to create an almost festival atmosphere. Rooms are simple but comfortable, with hearty portions of pies, burgers and chilli as perfect post-walk or post-swim fuel, and an excellent selection of real ales and Welsh liqueurs.
Doubles from £85 Bed and Breakfast; kingarthurhotel.co.uk

Porth Tocyn, Abersoch, Gwynedd

A wonderful base for exploring the breathtakingly beautiful Wales Coastal Path, Porth Tocyn is a very friendly, family-run hotel that feels like the best kind of home-from-home: sitting rooms filled with fresh flowers, magazines and comfy sofas, and a children’s snug to keep small people happy. In the bedrooms, antique pieces

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Hotel owner discriminated against Hispanic workers: lawsuit

Yudi Pratama, June 28, 2023

An owner of a hotel based in Taos, New Mexico, called Hispanic workers racial slurs and didn't allow them to use their real names at work, a lawsuit says. — An owner of a hotel based in Taos, New Mexico, called Hispanic workers racial slurs and didn’t allow them to use their real names at work, a lawsuit says.

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The owner of a hotel banned workers from speaking Spanish and didn’t allow them to use their real names on the job, according to a lawsuit filed in New Mexico.

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A Taos hotel, which was formerly known as Whitten Inn, now must pay $87,000 as part of a settlement, according to a June 27 news release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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The commission filed a lawsuit against the hotel company in 2014 after multiple workers said they were discriminated against by the hotel’s owner, according to the complaint. At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, the hotel had locations in Taos, New Mexico; Abilene, Texas; and Santee, South

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Luxe Baja hotel where an OC couple was found dead closes

Yudi Pratama, June 24, 2023

Two bodies were found in the hotel room — one on the shower floor. Now an investigation has been launched into the deaths of an Orange County couple, and the tony Baja California Sur resort where they were found has closed its doors.

The $600-a-night Rancho Pescadero Hotel in the seaside village of El Pescadero closed Sunday, a spokesperson for the Hyatt property confirmed to The Times on Thursday. It’s a temporary closure while an official investigation is underway into the June 13 deaths. But a statement from the hotel says that Hyatt “together with the hotel’s owners … is conducting an extensive, independent investigation of the incident led by a third party.”

Hyatt did not respond to further questions regarding the investigation, only noting that guests planning to stay at the resort were being contacted by Hyatt personnel. Some were being directed to the Cape Hotel, a Hyatt property

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