I’m Hannah, an underpaid poet enamored with traveling. Using my poet’s lens, I’ve learned how to make glimmering memories from thrifty trip itineraries. These Hotel Poet destination guides will teach you how to do the same, while helping you decide where to go and where to stay. Together, we’ll explore the itty-bitty, the nitty-gritty, the sun setting on the city you’re dreaming of visiting. Let’s go see the world.
See the world.
Know everything before you go anywhere.
Roam like a poet.
Poets experience life differently, absorbing teensy sensory details most folks miss. We see spigot sheens and catch the pillow’s floral perfume whiff. Appreciating minutiae transforms ordinary moments into extraordinary memories, and travel from an activity into an experience.
Like any good book, these travelogues will transport you from your lawn chair to your dream destination, all while showing you the sights from here to there.
Travel is all about the journey and I know how to get around. I’ll tell you about my road trips, my bus odysseys, my worst flights – every step of en route, so you can easily find your way.
Hotels, motels, the Chelsea Motor Inn. Read granular, essay-style reviews that range from the hotel lobby lighting to the evening gym aroma at places I’ve stayed.
Experiences transform spaces into places. I share mine, so you can discover uncommon things to do, along with entertainment ideas to make the most of your time elsewhere.
Ah, Las Vegas, that permanent circus settled between the Red Rocks and the sunrise and the big sky and the fragile lake that quenches the thirst of the entire West.
In deep winter, my restlessness fully fledged, I started planning my biannual trip to Vegas, that geode of a city that sparkles amid the Mojave’s thick dark. At about four hours driving time from Southern California, Las Vegas, NV is the ideal long weekend road trip destination – and not just to gawk at…
The three towers of the Signature at MGM Grand All Suites rise up near The Strip’s southern end like a trio of Art Deco cheese graters. These 38-story-tall vanilla and gold triplets glitter a block east of The Strip’s main action. Despite its name, The Signature at MGM Grand isn’t actually at its parent…
In deep winter, my restlessness fully fledged, I started planning my biannual trip to Vegas, that geode of a city that sparkles amid the Mojave’s thick dark. At about four hours driving time from Southern California, Las Vegas, NV is the ideal long weekend road trip destination – and not just to gawk at…
Hotel Poet travel guides cover what everyone else forgot to review. I’m talking granular, diagnostic, nook and cranny, gold-locket-in-sidewalk-crack kind of writing. You won’t find it anywhere else.
Ever gone sight-seeing inside your hotel room? Smell-smelling around a casino? Welcome to traveling creatively with the Hotel Poet. Even if you’re on a budget, both the beaten paths and the roads less taken gleam with potential adventure gems.
After all, poets don’t earn much, so I’ve learned how to extract the most out of traveling with very little. Like any good book, the landscape is just waiting to be read, so open the first page and get ready to roam like a poet.
When you journey vicariously via the Hotel Poet, you’ll find answers to questions you didn’t know you had about your destination. I’ll tell you everything about where I’ve been, so you know it all before you go.
Autumn 2025 Featured Hotel
On its website, Casa Palma Hotel & Bungalows describes itself as a "Boutique Palm Springs Resort with a Racquet, Swim & Social Club." It also coyly explains that it was "originally crafted as a secluded playground for 1940’s Hollywood megastar, Errol Flynn, and is now being opened to the general public for the first time." This is a long way of saying that the 33-room non-smoking property used to …
