Haiti

by Melanie Nayer (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
The Choice Hotels group - owners of hotel chains including Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion and more - is making plans to open the first chain hotels in Haiti in almost a decade.
The Associated Press is reporting that the hotel company will start the chain ...

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (20 days ago)
There are countless ways you can donate money and supplies to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Here's one more way you can help, just by going about your travels. Stay at a Sage Hospitality Group hotel, now through the end of January, and the company will give $10 ...
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by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (21 days ago)
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When Royal Caribbean docked the Independence of the Seas in their private Haitian bay just four days after the devastating earthquake, someone at their headquarters should have been awaiting the PR nightmare that ...

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) (21 days ago)
Private beaches in Haiti like the one in Labadee, above, have long been a stop for cruise lines like Royal Caribbean. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, should they stay away?
According to The Guardian, Royal Caribbean "leases a picturesque wooded peninsula ...

by Melanie Nayer (RSS feed) (26 days ago)
Over the past 24 hours, we've received more information from airlines, agencies and charities helping to provide relief following the 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti.
While people around the world wait for word from loved ones, the death toll continues to increase - ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Choice Hotels is headed to Haiti! The discount lodging company will be the first to hit the country in close to a decade. Its first hotel, a Comfort Inn, is expected to open in May. It'll be located in the city of Jacmel, which is on the Caribbean coast. A 32-room motel is ...

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
"You're going where?!" my father asked when I told him of my plans to go to Colombia. The Colombia he knows of, the one from the 1980's, is filled with cocaine, street violence, and Pablo Escobar's thugs. The country's days as a dangerous destination are gone, but its stigma ...

by Tynan (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
After a safe return from Haiti, universally advertised as too dangerous to visit, my opinion on danger was stronger than ever. Everyone blows danger way out of proportion, and if you walk around confidently without being flashy, no one is going to rob you. Here in Santo ...

by Tynan (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
I'd never been to Haiti and I'd never tried couchsurfing, but since Haiti was just a $75 bus ride away ($67 if you have the foresight to pay in Pesos), I felt like I had no choice but to try it.
A search for couches in Port Au Prince yielded a few pages of results, with ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Browsing through Gadling's offerings this week are posts about places from the people who have had first hand experience.
Jerry's trip to Pyongyang brought him an unexpected "history lesson on [his] own [Chinese] cultural heritage." His posts are an opportunity to ride ...

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Haiti is poor; we all know that. But just how bad are things?
Rising food prices have forced some residents of the poorest slums in Port-au-Prince to eat "cookies" made primarily of a dried yellow mud. Traditionally, pregnant women and children have eaten the cookies as an ...

by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Here at Gadling we pride ourselves in putting our money where our mouth is. In other words, we write about travel because we are all travelers. This is our passion, this is our hobby, this is our life. Unfortunately, we can't all travel 100% of the time. But, when we do hit ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Writing about my weekend fun and time spent in Haiti has been one of the most difficult dispatches to date. I spent a good number of hours in the country trying to come to terms that this magical western portion of Hispaniola was not living up to all the negative hype too ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Although Festival Mizik Jakmel, with headliners Stephen and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley did not make it into Gadling's Massively Huge 2007 Summer Music Fest Roundup, I mentioned the first-time event not long before I took a trip over to check it out on my own. Actually, at the ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Art is everywhere in Haiti. Evidence of such can easily be seen long before arriving in the so-called arts epicenter of Jacmel. Within moments of hitting the bustling Port-au-Prince streets I found myself googly-eyed, head turning left and right just trying to zone in on ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Before I took off to Haiti I was told of a number of beach towns in south worth hanging around on a weekend getaway, but Jacmel was always the top recommendation. One reason being the wealth of beach-side accommodation and eclectic hideaways found in the magical ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
One might imagine that food and its preparation between each Caribbean island couldn't possibly vary drastically in taste, but then one would be wrong. I've learned now through an odd handful of islands visited; St. Lucia, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago and now Haiti, that ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
None of my close friends and family was sure why exactly I wanted to visit the western most side of Hispaniola, also known as Haiti. Like most people their minds had been beset by images of rallying city folk advancing the streets with machetes in hand, spirits flying loose ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
World music lovers listen up and get ready to pen this one on your festival calendar if you haven't already. On May 25-27, 2007 a beach not quite as well known to the world as those on the neighboring country will play host to the Haiti's first international music festival. ...

by Adrienne Wilson (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Here is one that may not tickle the fancy of all on this particular Sunday morning and could have possibly been a topic on the recently past Friday the 13th, but I discovered the news yesterday and found the time to explore it more and pass it on to interested arm-chair ...
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