Selections of superlative (and strikingly horrible) products for your next trip
What you bring on a trip can effect a travel experience almost as much as where you go. So over this past year Spot Cool Stuff has reviewed all manner of travel gear and gadgets from cameras to luggage to clothing. A look back on our favorite travel ...
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Ludicrous lodges and incredible inns
There's a soft spot in Spot Cool Stuff's heart for unusual hotels. In a world where there are so many mediocre motels, unremarkable rooms, indifferent inns and characterless chains we love when a hotelier gets creative and offers an overnight experience that goes beyond the ordinary. With a new ...
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Cats, monkeys and giraffes, oh my!
Spot Cool Stuff loves the nexus between travel and animals, whether it is traveling to see animals or traveling with animals or traveling to hop into a bath next to an animal. We are such fans that we've created an entire animal travel category for our posts. So what ...
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What to give to your traveling friends . . . and to yourself
Shopping for a traveler you really can't stand? You should click on over to our collection of the worst travel gear. For everyone else—those of you hoping to, you know, find a present that will make a traveler happy—we offer you these 10 suggestions, a cross section of ...
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See giant frozen sculptures at this yearly event in Harbin
Two phrases sum up Harbin China’s Snow & Ice Festival: Wow and I can’t feel my toes. Each year the far northeast of China the city of Harbin holds this famous winter festival. Artisans from all over the globe come to carve gargantuan works of art out of ...
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Airport hotels worth staying in even if you aren’t using the airport
Airport hotels have got a bad name. You might have spent the night in a soulless concrete box by the tarmac, its hallways lined by hollow-eyed passengers en route to a better place. But it doesn’t have to be like that. The next time you’ve ...
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