Online hotel reviews — we've all seen them. One guest complains that his oatmeal was cold, another praises the towels in the sauna. With a click of a mouse, some guy from Schenectady becomes an expert on hotels in Hamburg. Are these reviews really worth your while? Joel Widzer weighs...

The coast of Koh Chang island, Trat Province, southern Thailand on March 2018.Phusit wirutthanatporn / AP file Sept. 30, 2020, 10:11 AM GMT+7 By Janhvi Bhojwani and Rima Abdelkader An American hotel guest may be facing a prison sentence in Thailand after posting negative reviews about his stay in late June. Wesley Barnes,...

Oliver Munday June 22, 2012, 7:33 PM GMT+7 By Amy Farley Recommended When hotels began issuing a storm of lawsuits against TripAdvisor last winter, accusing the mega-review site of publishing false and misleading reviews, it seemed — after years of simmering resentment — as though a full-blown war might be on...

When Americans think of "five star" hotels, they conjure up images of on-site spas, white-gloved service, and pillow menus. That's no surprise, given that the dominant rating systems in the U.S. are two of the most trust-worthy on the planet—Forbes and AAA. In order to snag Forbes's highest ratings, for...

By The Associated Press With up to 17 rooms to clean each shift, Fatima Amahmoud’s job at the Moxy hotel in downtown Boston sometimes feels impossible. There was the time she found three days worth of blond dog fur clinging to the curtains, the bedspread and the carpet. She knew she...

Forum Restaurant, which was damaged after one of the bombs exploded in front of the building, reopened Thursday, for a private event, for the first time since the race.Charles Krupa, AP Aug. 16, 2013, 5:59 AM GMT+7 By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News The restaurant that was closest to the second bomb...

A New Orleans chef and civil rights icon, Chase created the city's first white-tablecloth restaurant for black patrons and broke the city's segregation laws. Leah Chase prepares lunch at the Dooky Chase Restaurant in New Orleans in 2009.Bill Haber / AP file June 2, 2019, 8:56 PM GMT+7 / Updated June 2, 2019,...

By Natalie Bennett Some college students work in the school cafeteria or at the local coffee shop, but Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University in Rhode Island, sells dinner reservations at some of New York City’s hottest restaurants. He does it through an app called Appointment Trader, where people can pay...

By Daniel Arkin The White House on Monday condemned a group of protesters who massed and chanted in front of an Israeli-style falafel shop in Philadelphia on Sunday night, characterizing the demonstration as an act of anti-Jewish prejudice. "It is Antisemitic and completely unjustifiable to target restaurants that serve Israeli food over disagreements...

The complaint alleges negligence on the part of the park and its restaurant, Raglan Road, in the death of Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan, an NYU Langone Health physician. Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.Octavio Jones / Getty Images file Feb. 27, 2024, 10:37 AM GMT+7 By Dennis Romero and Colin Sheeley The husband of a...