Viator Travel Blog

There’s a reason that Kauai is known as the Garden Isle among the islands of Hawaii. Perhaps you’ve watched South Pacific, Blue Hawaii or even Jurassic Park with the craggy, dramatic, velvet-green mountains that meet with rolling ocean waves and swaying palm trees and wondered where Hollywood found such a lush tropical paradise, the answer [...]

I remember the first time I flew. It was a flight between San Diego and Dallas, and somehow my sister had graciously let me have the window seat (or gave it up to keep me quiet!). The 8-year-old me proceeded to be glued to that window for the entire five-hour flight. What struck me the [...]

While Santa’s checking off his list for the last time, we here at Viator are just adding up the final tally for our best of 2008 list extravaganza. With over 50,000 reviews and photos, it’s been fun taking a look back at what our customers have been up to this year and see how our [...]

As a big fan of side trips, I made a plan to add a Munich jaunt to my upcoming Italy tour. I’ve managed to squeeze in three days of sightseeing in Germany before heading off to Rome and Tuscany. And with what I’ve got planned, and much like Liz’s ambitious three-day weekend series, I might [...]

I know it’s terribly stereotypical to say Californians (and Americans for that matter) love their cars. We do. What we don’t love is our commutes. I’ve lived in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Oakland, and San Francisco, so I think I’m somewhat qualified to deliver a fair assessment of the state as a [...]

I’ve been planning a trip to Italy for the last few months to see extended family. With nine days and six people to keep occupied in Tuscany, I need all the help I can get! I’ve found Florence Italy sights and the Italian Tourism provided helpful information on what there is to see where I’m [...]

For most people in the US, Memorial Day means the glorious three-day weekend that kicks of the official start of summer. Backyard barbeques, baseball games, iced beverages, patio furniture sales, and the Indianapolis 500 mark the occasion for many Americans. But, what started as a day to remember American soldiers that died during the Civil [...]

I’m not going to tell you who found this “Toilets of the World” book, but I will say that “ellyKay” was a “ecretSay antaSay” for someone in San Francisco and this was the gift. Alas, our site director never had a chance to take his inspirational reading material home, as his fellow co-workers kept borrowing [...]

After reading Kerrie’s post on our latest Viator London attraction addition (which has coincidentally started an avalanche of “spankometer” sprinkled conversations), I’ve been thinking of all of the things I managed to miss on my last trip to London. While I did manage a lot in one week, I thought I’d share my new “top [...]

I spent the earlier part of last week in Las Vegas for business and while I’m not a gambler and not a shopper, I do love the Nevada desert. An early flight, early & late meetings combined with dinner with (or next to, rather) Steve Wynn and his wife at the Wynn hotel, on top [...]