Went to Pujol on my bachelor party. Insanely good and creative. Half the time, had no idea what I was eating but it was fantastic If you have time, I highly, highly recommend going to Mercado Medellin in Roma Sur and looking for Proveedor de Carnes y Carnitas Meche y Rafael. It'll be a booth in the back of the market. Other worldly carnitas
Hey btw, any recent flyers had experience with the new computed tomography (I assume) scanners? I flew over mothers day weekend and at both my origin and destination I didn't have to remove anything from my carry on. It's p sweet.
Not sure if they were used or not because I'm pre-check but nobody was taking anything out of bags and made the process much faster.
As a radiologist, I have no idea how they’re making it work, but that’s fascinating. I say that because normally for CT, metallic objects create a ton of “artifact,” meaning that there are a lot of bright strips of “light” (really it’s just due to abrupt changes in density) that radiate outward from the metallic object and obscure adjacent structures. I’ll have to look into this
I wonder if that overrules the article I posted last week regarding Italy where it says you'd have to get a PCR test and 2 rapid test even if vaccinated. Or if individual countries in the EU can have rules more stringent than the EU rules
yeah even though the risk is low I’d rather remove that extra test being vaccinated..adds more stress to a trip
I think 3 tests, including PCR, when you're vaccinated is overkill. I understand they don't want people bringing COVID into their country and we don't want folks coming back with COVID , but if you're vacinnated the risk is so low.
Is there a site that has up-to-date covid regulations for each country and/or city? The entry restrictions are easy enough to find but it’d also be good to know what’s open in terms of restaurants, bars, attractions, etc., as well as things like mask policies.
There’s an awesome cocktail bar in Ocean Park but I can’t remember the name of it. Near Bar Watusi the streets are usually blocked off during the weekend. Live Bomba music/dancing Santurce has a cool “food truck” area called Lote 23 with plenty of drink options
Doing 12-13 days in the PNW this summer. Crater Lake, Hoh, and Third Beach camping are on the list. In terms of City-stops, we’re doing Bend for a couple days, Seattle for a day-and-a-half and in between have options of Eugene, Corvallis, Vancouver, WA or Olympia, for full day/night. Any recs on which city you’d choose to spend a full day? (FWIW, we’ve been to Portland before)
I'd just stay in Bend a day longer, if you're set on going somewhere on that list I would say Eugene.
1. Delete Vancouver from your list. 2. Book a wine tour. There are excellent Pinot Noir wineries just outside of Portland.
Oakland proper ? If so I mean you can easily take BART and hit up SF and hit up Berkeley……..what r u trying to do ? U have a car? Work trip? Or have all free time?
We leave for Hawaii Sunday morning, but get into Oakland the Saturday before around noon. Same situation on the way back. Just looking for restaurants and maybe some sightseeing. Staying at the Hampton Inn in Downtown-City Center. Thanks!
Got to our AirBnb here in St Martin (French side) and I'm pretty disappointed. The beach outside the condo area is covered in shards of glass so can't really use it at all. And about 3-5 days before we were set to arrive the AirBnb host (who has been great) sent a message letting me know the water was going to be shut-off for the first Sunday we are here. Well, it's also been shut off randomly on Friday afternoon/evening to Saturday around 7:30am and apparently it's going to be shut-off on Wednesday as well. 3x in 1 week is pretty annoying, especially when the first I heard abt the shut-offs was well after the time to cancel and be refunded had long since passed. We have another 3.5 weeks here but I think if it happens again then I'm going to ask for some sort of refund on some of what we paid because not being able to shower, do dishes, do laundry, or even flush the fucking toilet for 15 or so hours (admittedly at night, but that doesn't change much of anything) is not acceptable, especially when you weren't told about it going into the thing. It's been miserable basically sleeping in our filth from the day when you come back and have no water. Am I being ridiculous or is asking for some sort of refund for the days where there is no water reasonable? I understand it's not the host's fault but it's definitely not our fault and we paid good money for this place for a month.
I’d say a refund is a reasonable request. Shit like that is one of the biggest problems with airbnb. I try not to use airbnb for personal reasons (i.e. not being a hypocrite when I complain about airbnb’s impact on the rental market in my own cities) but even ignoring that, I’ve started to value the peace of mind and stability that come with hotels. Airbnb seems plagued with nasty surprises, unresponsive hosts, and high cleaning and booking fees. It’s unfortunate since there are viable reasons for wanting an airbnb over a hotel, especially in situations like yours.
if ur staying near the airport there ain’t shit to do out there except maybe catch an A’s game……I would keep it simple go to Jack London Square there is a bunch of stuff all there walking distance, and hit up Drake’s Dealership beer garden since u won’t have really much time…….San Francisco is very close subway ride away and so is Berkeley
water is a basic utility, it needs to be on. If it cannot be on, you should receive concessions of some sort. It may be outside their control, but they should let you out/release your booking or offer a partial refund. File something with Airbnb (they can likely see all messages between you and the host, keep that in mind) if you don't get relief from the host.
Our airbnb in Rome a few years back scheduled some cosmetic work in one of the bathrooms while we were there, in a four-hour window when we were out exploring the city, and offered us a couple hundred euros deduction from our bill for the inconvenience (which it really wasn't)
Unpopular opinion: I never go through Airbnb for big /expensive trips if I can stay at a resort or nice hotel. You're going to pay more but you're not going to run into buschleague stuff like that.
I only stay at Airbnb for big trips and I stayed at them all over the world and never an issue. Just always do my research, use super hosts with tons of reviews, go thru the reviews and thank goodness since last 7 years yet to run into a single issue really
Late in the game as just switched jobs that had much better vacation. Wife and I are looking at the week of the 4th. Too risky for European travel?
Just called Commander's Palace and GW Finns to make reservations 2 weekends from now and they're booked solid
Big thing with picking an Airbnb is # of reviews. I’m not messing with a property with 3 reviews. I’m not the guest that will serve as your guinea pig while you figure your shit out Airbnb’s mediation process is pretty straight forward. I’d take some photos or video for documentation purposes in case the host tries to dispute what you claim