Table, there’s a fly in my soup
What's on the menu at London's Inamo restaurant? Literally, your plate, your drinks and your silverware. At Inamo, patrons order their food electronically at the high-tech, interactive table at which they sit!
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Learn how to access exclusive airline lounges with Priority Pass
When we traveled as backpackers in our early 20's Spot Cool Stuff was happy to slog through airports. Back then we took some perverse pride in coping with uncomfortable travel conditions. These days, wiser and more monied, we would not take an airplane trip without our Priority Pass ...
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Sleep among the art galleries and science exhibits
Do you usually find the experience of visiting a museum: A) so dull that you want to fall asleep; or B) so interesting that you don't want to leave at the museum's closing time. Either way, you could benefit from a museum that provides visitors a place to sleep. Here's ...
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The Caribbean’s eco-island
Many people, even those well-traveled, have never heard of the rugged, tropical nation of Dominica. Tourism does not dominate here in the way it does many other small Caribbean islands where development often crowds out ecological concerns. Much of Dominica is green, wild and untouched. No wonder Dominica ...
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Cabbages and Condoms, together in one eatery
I'd like the grilled fish with mango and a condom, please. In Bangkok, there's a lunch and dinner spot where you can utter that sentence to your waiter without it being the punch line of some (probably not very good) joke. Tucked away on one of the Thai capital's ...
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Money savings ways to float your boat
Spot Cool Stuff's single favorite piece of travel writing, the David Foster Wallace essay A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, is a humorous accounting of the absurd side of taking a cruise—that part of cruising in which overweight Hawaiian shirt-wearing passengers are herded between crowded shuffleboard ...
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