The weather has been terrible in Wisconsin so when Travelmista had a last minute schedule change to go to a conference in Marco Island, I tagged along. The conference was at the Marriott Marco Island Resort. Having never been to Marco Island we fell in […]
I was traveling with my husband for two weeks in Japan, Shanghai, Thailand and Singapore. He was working while in Shanghai and I needed something to do. So I booked the Shopping Tours Shanghai at the last minute based on great Trip Advisor reviews. It […]
Have you ever met someone famous or well connected on a flight? Well it happened this week to Travelmista in first class on a Sunday night flight to DCA he met the very chatty executive VP of Communications for a major hotel chain. While she […]
It is always a good time to go to London for Valentine's Day! Travelmista will be working in London next week. Instead of him flying home for V-Day I am going to join him for the long President's Day weekend. My plan was to use […]
Last weekend, I picked up Travelmista at the ORD and we went to The Travel and Adventure Show in Chicago. It was held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center which is almost next door to ORD. We arrived at 1pm and it was packed! […]
Last week, Travelmista was on a business trip to Stockholm Sweden. While visiting Stockholm in January is not the top of his list, he had to be there and was going to make the best of it. The reason he choose the Radisson Blu Royal […]
It sure was a busy year for us at Top Travelista. Not only did we start the blog in July of 2012 but we traveled to more places than we ever thought we could. Plus we gained a bunch of miles and points to help […]
Did someone just hit me in the leg with an epi pen? Nope, that is just me reacting to the new United lounge near gate F4 at Chicago O'Hare ORD. For those not familiar, the F gates at O'Hare service many of those people flying […]
This is a continuation of trip reports from our Mediterranean Cruise. The other trip reports listed at the bottom. Istanbul is one of my favorite cities to visit. It is exotic and there is so much history to discover. Since I have already been I […]
I get jet lagged just thinking about all the travel we did in 2012. But here is a recap on our End of 2012 Status updates. Travelmista traveled 221 days, 47 different airports and 21 countries in 2012. I traveled 68 days, 15 different airports […]
