We recently had an unfortunate incident at our hotel in Alexandria (The Alexandrian) on our recent trip to the DC area and while we’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels around the world, this issue was our first of the kind. Long story short, we arrived back at the hotel around… Read more
For part of our trip through Germany and Austria, we rented a car in Munich and drove down into Austria including stops in Innsbruck, Hallstatt and Salzburg. Driving on the Autobahn in Germany and roads in Austria can be daunting, so here’s my best travel tips for driving in Germany… Read more
In the past year, I’ve gotten more serious about picking hotels that belong to one loyalty account when we travel. I still prefer boutique hotels, but the more extensively we travel, that’s not always an option. It’s easier in Europe and larger cities in the US to stick with boutique… Read more
We’ve all been on flights next to someone sick or sick ourselves and I’ll tell you from experience, there isn’t much that’s more uncomfortable than flying sick. It’s miserable to put it bluntly. But if you have to get from point A to point B, there often isn’t much of… Read more
One of the ways we’re able to travel as much as we do is because we take full advantage of airline miles and points. Over the years of traveling, we’ve become experts on how to save money and use points and miles instead of cash when it comes to travel… Read more
Tokyo is really organized and for a large city, it’s super easy to get around anywhere you need to go. We remarked many times while exploring Tokyo how easy it was to traverse the city and how organized it is – so if you’re heading to Japan’s famous metropolis, here’s… Read more
Our visit to the Great Wall of China was undoubtedly one of the most amazing travel experiences I’ve ever had and I’ll never forget it, though there are some important items to note when planning your visit there. To make it as easy as possible, here are my best tips… Read more
We are preparing to head to Japan and China tomorrow so I was packing recently for the trip. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, we most travel carry-on only and as a lot of people always have questions for me on how to do that, I thought instead of… Read more
I hear a lot from people, “I don’t know how you travel so often!” Most of the time people are referring to the actual act of travel, airports, long haul flights, the exhaustion, the time it takes, etc. For some reason (well actually, we know the reasons) people hate the… Read more
I book a lot of award travel, using points and mileage to purchase travel all around the world for insanely low personal cost to me. But I find, when talking to people in my life, they are always unsure in this arena of travel and always remark that they don’t… Read more
If you follow me on social media, you might remember I had to fly down to San Francisco for a couple days in the past couple weeks to get our visas for our visit to China upcoming in November. As I went through the visa process, I wrote this post… Read more
Often times, we look at travel as this romanticized experience where everything is amazing and everything is perfect. And while some trips do go off without a hitch, I’ve definitely had my fair share of bad travel experiences. But perhaps none quite as bad as my recent experience at the… Read more
I get a lot of questions in general about how I book our travels and what websites I use and how I do the research. So in an effort to help each and every person looking for a little bit of guidance on how to book travel, I’ve put together… Read more
If you’ve been following Land of Marvels for a while, you’ll know that my husband Nick takes a large majority of the travel photos that I share here on the blog from our adventures around the world. And while he just does photography as a side gig and hobby, Land… Read more
Machu Picchu… it’s one of those places that seems only real in a fairytale. And it is that magical in person and it is well worth a trip to see it for yourself, but it’s also kind of a trek to get there. And with so many questions about how… Read more