While on a recent webinar about Ellenborough Park Hotel, I saw the room above and told my husband, “I want to go there.” So was I ever...

What a beautiful city Seville is! Karen and I felt it was best seen by the leisurely clopping along of a horse-drawn carriage. One of the...

Princess time for Karen Steele and Vicki Scheck at Hotel Ritz Madrid Because the Ritz Madrid, a 1910 Belle Époque hotel in the heart of...

Crystal Palace, Retiro Park, Madrid When a good friend told me that she thought Madrid was the most beautiful city she’d ever seen—and...

For many people, Tahiti conjures up images of a tropical paradise. And while that is certainly understandable, the island of Tahiti...

Four Seasons Bora Bora! I couldn’t help thinking of it as Paradise Found. How could it not be the ScheckTrek Pick for French Polynesia? For

We wondered if we were crazy. With almost four weeks and eight hotels in South Africa, what were we thinking when we booked a stopover in Du

If you trust Princes William and Harry, Oprah Winfrey, and former President Bill Clinton to know which is the best hotel in Johannesburg,...

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy,” said Ernest Hemingway. It was easy to understand why when we...

It was only about a year earlier, when staying at a world-class hotel in Paris, that I'd said, "Where hotels are concerned, it will never...

We get it that not everyone makes it to Durban on their first visit to South Africa. But as ours was a four-week journey, it made sense...