Articles Mentioning Southwest Gulf Coast Hotels

Second Edition: Restaurants With Views Worth Dining For

As we’ve said before, a vacation just isn’t a vacation without delicious food and delicious views. And when you can have both together, well, that’s a match made in culinary heaven. Back in August, we gave you a peak at five hotel restaurants with scrumptious food set against amazing backdrops — and now we add…

Doomsday Vacations: How to Spend Your Last Day on Earth

Well, the time has finally come! We’re in the last stretch of humanity as we know it (according to the ancient Mayan calendar, at least), and we’re searching the globe for the best places on earth to spend our final days — or day as the case may be. We’ve visited every (habitable) continent and…

13 of the Best Luxury Hotels in Europe

There are plenty of different ways to travel in Europe – from shoestring-budget trips to over-the-top getaways worthy of the British royals. Here at Oyster we’ve been lucky enough to be able to do both (seriously, the budget hotels in Europe are pretty nice!), but the holidays are for wishing and dreaming, so we’re going…

Winter in Venice: What to do in Venice during the Off-Season

In the summertime, Venice belongs to tourists — 18 million tourists to be exact. Crowds clog the (barely) three square miles of this wondrous city, vastly outnumbering the roughly 270,000 Italians that call La Serenissima home. Literally meaning “the most serene,” this nickname is often replaced by another, less attractive moniker: Italian Disneyland. Though summer…

The Best Road Trips From: Miami

The Best Road Trips is a weekly summer series highlighting our favorite getaways from major cities all over the United States. Miami is one of the U.S.’s most celebrated metropolises, a Cuban-influenced coastal city on the Southern tip of Florida, known as the “gateway to the Americas.” But Miami’s wild reputation and glamorous lifestyle can…

Foto Friday: Reflections in Venice

There are few cities in the world as photogenic as Venice. In this fairytale setting it’s easy to let the sights become your reality, especially at the Hotel Al Sole. Entry to your room right off of your own personal canal, check. A cozy little bar, check. A courtyard with lots of patio seating and…