Archive for the ‘Online Travel Videos’ Category
Your TICKET Editor on Good Morning America! (Seriously!)
November 30th, 2009
Good Morning America called. We answered!
Take a look at this short (1.5 minute) video of TICKET editor Chris McGinnis offering up tips and advice for choosing the fastest airport security screening line. The theme of the overall segment was about how to get through lines faster, be it at grocery stores, or on the freeway. We edited out the non-travel elements for you.
Thoughts please!
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90 Second Hotel Review: Hotel Maya, Long Beach, Calif.
October 13th, 2009
SF-based Joie de Vivre hotels recently invited your TICKET editor Chris McGinnis to Long Beach, CA for the grand opening of the Hotel Maya, located right there on the waterfront between the Queen Mary and downtown. They’ve done a great job! If you find yourself on the southern side of LA or in Orange County, it’s worth a look! Here is my video review. Below you’ll find the voice over script to the video in case you can’t watch it.
Video Review of the Hotel Maya
In typical fashion, designers from the mod San Francisco based Joie de Vivre hotel chain have gone to Long Beach, California…
…where they found the UN-gracefully aging Coast Hotel …
…and transformed it into a Latin lover called the Hotel Maya to the tune of about $20 million dollars
The property is set in a forest of 400 palm trees on the Long Beach waterfront.
Rooms are decorated with unusual touches like river stone headboards…
Bathrooms are brand new… I love that brown granite and burnt orange wallpaper!
Every room’s got a big desk area, flat screen TV, mini bar— and thankfully free and fast wi-fi
There’s a dramatic pool area with Vegas style cabanas good for play, and for work….
Plus an ample gym and meeting space for business travelers.
The airy Fuego Restaurant specializes in three things: seafood, tequila, and a stunning view of the city AND the Queen Mary docked nearby.
All in all this a great redo— like a stodgy old aunt going in for a makeover and coming out a flamenco dancer!
The Hotel Maya is located about 30 mins south of LAX on the border of LA and Orange county.
Rates start at around $140 for garden views. Water views are closer to $200.
Cool, Hip, Quirky New Hotel in Silicon Valley (Video)
August 28th, 2009
I made the following video for my Best Western blog at www.youmustbetrippin.com and it’s sorta gone viral (nearly 1000 views as of Aug 27)
It’s a video report on the opening of the cool new Hotel Avatar in Santa Clara, Calif….in the heart of Silicon Valley. Very clever re-do of the classic motel with all the modern amenities you’d expect, like free and fast wifi, nice pool, gym with elliptical trainers, etc.
Rates start in the very reasonable range of about $130 per night and it’s a nice colorful change compared to a lot of the beige box hotels in the area.
Check out the two min video and see for yourself:
