This week we took off on an auto trip to Prague. From Vienna the journey to Prague is about a 4-hour ride either by train or car. Prague has always been one of our favorite cities. The food, architecture, culture – Prague has it all. And, perhaps the best beer in the world! Prague is […]
Read more »One of the advantages of Virtuoso membership is the privilege of receiving an upgrade at the time of booking for our clients. As an affiliate of Brownell Travel, a Virtuoso Agency, Ron PhillipsTravel is able to extend this – and other Virtuoso amenities – to you. Following are the 2014 Virtuoso Hotel & Resort participants […]
Read more »J.K. Place Firenze is perhaps my favorite hotel in Florence. It’s not on the river, nor is it the most luxurious… but it’s just so comfortable. You’ll see guest after guest talk about feeling like you’re in a “luxury home or apt.” And that’s so true. After dealing with crowds in Florence, you feel […]
Read more »We were fortunate to live in Rome for three years and traveled often to the Amalfi. Of all the hotels we visited and stayed, Il San Pietro Di Positano was always my favorite. I love Positano – the beauty, the shops, and even the steps. But sometimes Positano can get a “little crowded.” Which […]
Read more »“Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes becomingly real after you have gone. Its houses climb a hill so steep it would be a cliff except there are stairs cut into it…” So wrote John Steinbeck in the May 1953, (from Harper’s Bazaar). […]
Read more »We had the opportunity to visit the Hotel Cipriani and Palazzo Vendramin by Orient-Express during a summer trip to Venice. We boarded the private launch from Piazza San Marco and comfortably headed to the tip of the Giudecca Island. Here, in a MUCH quieter part of Venice, we disembarked at the Hotel Cipriani. […]
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Ron Phillips is an Independent Consultant of Brownell Travel