A wilderness treehouse hotel 30 minutes from Seattle
Seattle is a Spot Cool Stuff favorite city. We love experiencing its vibrant urban heart. And we love how easy it is to escape that for the accessible natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. A case in point (literally, a "point") is The Treehouse Point. The complex—part treehouse hotel, ...
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Websites for booking bargain island vacations
Arranging a trip to the Caribbean online? There are lots of general travel websites—Travelocity, Expedia and Funjet Vacations among them—that cover the Caribbean along with the rest of the planet. But many of the best deals, and much of the most useful planning information, are found on websites ...
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Flip-flops with independent toe suspension
If you had to spend an entire vacation wearing no other footwear besides a pair of flip-flops which model would you want to take? Spot Cool Stuff has been busy lately researching this exact question. We've been testing more than two dozen pairs of flip-flops across several categories. ...
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Cliff-side eating by the Yangzte River.
There are lots of blogs that repost photos of cool-looking places. Usually these websites give very little information even identifying the location shown in the photo, much less practical tips on how to travel there. Spot Cool Stuff is a different in this way. We aren't about spreading memes. ...
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A stay in the nature-centric Juvet Hotel
There are all kinds of hotel categories: boutique hotels, eco hotels, heritage hotels, apartment hotels and capsule hotels, to name a few. (To say nothing of motels, hostels, lodges, resorts, inns, pensions, guest houses, flophouses, bunkhouses, bed and breakfasts, holiday cottages and caravanserai). But chances are you've never ...
SEE OTHER POSTS IN: Amazing Views | Boutique Hotel | Eco-resort | Hiking & Trekking | Luxury Hotels | Norway | Scandinavia
New York City’s social, high value, boutique hotel
When Spot Cool Stuff was arranging a tour of the Yotel New York, a hip boutique hotel two blocks from Times Square, we suggested to their press representative that we meet her in the lobby. She wrote back: "I'll meet you at Mission Control." That would not be ...
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