Giveaway: Free Night at a Cotswolds 5-Star Hotel!
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...
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Vicki Scheck
- Aug 6, 2017
- 2 min
Simply Stunning Seville, Spain
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...
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Vicki Scheck
- Jul 21, 2017
- 4 min
Puttin' On The Ritz: Ritz Madrid
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...
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Vicki Scheck
- Jun 29, 2017
- 3 min
Why I Love Madrid
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...
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Vicki Scheck
- Jun 1, 2017
- 2 min
Tahiti's InterContinental Resort
For many people, Tahiti conjures up images of a tropical paradise. And while that is certainly understandable, the island of Tahiti...
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Vicki Scheck
- May 5, 2017
- 3 min
Paradise Found: Four Seasons Bora Bora
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
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Vicki Scheck
- Apr 20, 2017
- 4 min
Al Maha Resort: ScheckTrek Pick for Dubai
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
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Vicki Scheck
- Mar 10, 2017
- 4 min
Johannesburg & The ScheckTrek Pick: The Saxon
If you trust Princes William and Harry, Oprah Winfrey, and former President Bill Clinton to know which is the best hotel in Johannesburg,...
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Vicki Scheck
- Mar 10, 2017
- 5 min
ScheckTrek Pick for Safari: Jamala Madikwe
“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...
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Vicki Scheck
- Jan 29, 2017
- 4 min
ScheckTrek Pick for the Winelands of South Africa: La Residence (Part 1)
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...
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Scheck Trek Travel
- Jan 13, 2017
- 3 min
ScheckTrek Pick for Durban: The Oyster Box
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...
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