Las Vegas pretty much stands for everything that I hate in the travel industry. Artificial everything. Horribly unsustainable. Tacky to no end. I was recently there for work, and I walked around like a wilted flower. If you’re there on business, most likely you’re staying at the conference hotel and are forced to walk through [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fail ‘o’ the Day'
Vegas. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day
Tags:Las Vegas
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Did You Know Non-Stops Are Faster?
May 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
The Seattle Times travel section is so bad, it’s embarrassing. We’ve already wondered aloud how Carol Pucci still has a job, but even in a Pucci-free Sunday travel section, the simplistic writing keeps on coming. Take this Q&A with Kristin Jackson: Will Europe fares go down? Q: My wife and I are taking a 21-day [...]
Tags:bad writing·Seattle Times
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Sex and the Dhabi
May 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fail 'o' the Day, Urban archipelagos
Sometimes there’s a fail that’s so spectacular, it needs double the action, double the fun, which is why we’re giving you a fly-on-the-newelty-wall approach with the messiness that is the Sex and the City 2 trailer. Microwave yourself a 100-calorie popcorn pack, watch the insane trailer for Sex and the City: Because SJP’s Townhouses Don’t [...]
Tags:Abu Dhabi·New York City
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Other Passengers
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day
I’d like to sing the praises of this Slate piece by John Dickerson, a child’s treasury of jackass flight passengers. Partly it’s because I was so ticked off with my fellow passengers on my last domestic flight–a.k.a. “the tragedy of the commons“–that I completely reversed my previously stated opinion about Spirit Airways charging for carry-on [...]
Fail ‘o’ the Day: It’s Good to Google
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, Transportation bliss
Oh, New York Times. You are funny. I really enjoyed your lengthy piece today on appreciating the ground below from the window seat. But probably part of that enjoyment is because I already enjoy the five-year-old book series on this same subject: Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air and Window Seat: Europe. Mark [...]
Fail ‘o’ the Day: “A Trip of a Lifetime”
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day, The point of travel
A few years ago, I was on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in a kayak with a friend. Surrounded by Mayan villages, the lake is one of the deepest in Central America and thought to have mystical properties. Lush, green hillsides consisting of coffee plantations surround its clear waters. I let the boat glide for a [...]
Golf Courses Are Dead, and the LA Times Keeps Puttering Along
March 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day
Sigh. WHY? The LA Times recently ran a story in their travel section entitled, “Playing golf courses the pros play.” Again, this is why travel sections are increasingly becoming irrelevant. Let’s look at data. New hospitality developments are forgoing golf courses as part of their schemes for other revenue producing vehicles (such as spas) because [...]
Tags:hackery
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Pringles Do Not Equal a Finished Flight
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day
I’ve flown Virgin and liked it very much compared with other airlines. Good in-flight entertainment, like the Johnny Depp Actors’ Studio on demand, shown above, that my seatmates and I liked. These days, it takes very little to keep me content. But I’ve never been in a situation where potato chips and water were being [...]
Fail ‘o’ the Day: New York Times Man-Crush Edition
March 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, The point of travel, Wary of the advice of others
It’s unclear to me exactly how the first “issue” of an online “magazine”–a.k.a., a blog–gets covered by the New York Times. But based on today’s review of Nowhere, the qualifications seem to be: An Andy-Spade-like preoccupation with pencil-scribbled notebooks Courier font An aversion to using paragraph breaks, or in other ways admitting you’re publishing on [...]
Tags:dreamscapes·hackery·obsession with fonts·pomposity·travel writing
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Time for the Gold Watch Edition
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
Growing up, my dream was to be a foreign correspondent. I didn’t really have any idea of what that meant, except it sounded sophisticated and extremely exotic. The notion of traveling overseas to report the truth consisted of wearing khaki, dodging bullets, and sleeping underneath mosquito netting. Now my travel for work has little, if [...]
