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New Year’s Travel Resolutions: 5 Great Gyms for Getting Fit in 2012

All those who pack running shoes and yoga pants but rarely use them, raise your hand. Thankfully, this is the internet, so no one has to know your secret. But 2012 is going to be different, right? Daniel Szelényi, one of Kiwi’s fittest and finest, shares his top five tried-and-tested in-hotel fitness facilities.

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Trip Tips: Picking the Best Breakfast in Mauritius

After years of skipping a substantial morning meal and instead having only coffee and cookies in the office, I rediscovered the beauty of breakfast.

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Destination Dispatches: Hotel Away From Home

I can’t recall just how many hoteliers have explained the unique factor of their hotel being that it’s “a home away from home” for guests. I have heard this so often I am at a point of questioning this argument…

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Trip Tips: Llama Trek, Riverboat Brunch and Lake by Harley

I know what you (probably) didn’t do this summer, but you should have. Good thing there’s still a couple weeks left for you to have one of these three last hurrahs.

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The New, Old Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Hamburg

Is it old or is it new?

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The 27th St. Moritz Polo World Cup 2011 – on Snow

Polo, snow, bubbly and beautiful people… St. Moritz, here I come.

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Lute Suites – Recipe for a Big Bang

I’ve slept in water towers, chateaus, tree houses and tents, so a hotel that used to be a gunpowder factory sounded promising.

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German Wunderland Part 1: Weekend in Wiesbaden

By now, many of you have probably been to Munich (if not – see my previous blog: the Heart of Munich) and you have hopefully been to Berlin. You may have even been to Frankfurt. But how about Wiesbaden? I’m guessing… probably not.

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Ich bin ein Berliner!

Berlin, mother of all German cities. Diverse as it can be. An amazing melting pot, combining the old charm of formerly communist East Berlin with the modern developments of a city striving to be at the forefront of architectural recognition.

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The Heart of Munich: Hotel Bayerischer Hof

My very first time at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof was more than decade ago when I attended a party in the hotel’s impressive Ballroom. When I left the glamorous event that night, I remember stepping out into a mild summer night with clear star-filled skies.

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