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Last week, we gave you the low down on just how low hotel rates can go. And we pleasantly discovered they can get quite low; all 10 properties that made our “cheapest hotels” list cost $22/night or less! Of course, these extremely affordable prices often meant shared bathrooms, stark decor, and tiny spaces. So today,…
Last week we announced some pretty exciting news: Oyster now has over 10,000 hotels! How is it possible that we’ve grown our coverage from only 250 properties when Oyster.com first launched in June 2009 to this staggering number (with nearly four million photos to boot)?! It’s because, every day, we’re adding dozens of new hotels…
Launched in October 2010, Instagram (if you’ve been living under a rock) is the extremely successful photo-sharing app acquired by Facebook in 2012. The social networking service lets you take photos and short videos, and apply filters or alter the brightness, contrast, and saturation of them, before posting them under your handle for all of…
The Burj Al Arab in Dubai bills itself as the world’s most luxurious hotel, and it’s hard to disagree. Not when every room is a two-story suite equipped with a 24-karat gold iPad. There are few properties on the planet that can compete with Burj Al Arab in terms of features, luxury services, and sheer…
In the past five or so years, Dubai has firmly situated itself on the forefront of travel, and now it’s official: Dubai International Airport has eclipsed Heathrow to become the world’s busiest airport in regards to international passenger travel. Have a guess for how many MILLIONS of passengers it saw this year? Put your answer…
