Archive for category: Recommended Digs

Ten Popular Bloggers and Their All-Time Favorite Digs

22 March, 2010 (18:15) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

One of the great benefits of putting together a guide to travelers’ favorite places to stay is receiving a new nomination in our in-box.  It’s a little bit like receiving a surprise gift.  After all, we depend on travelers from around the world to take the time to nominate their all-time favorite places (with rooms [...]

What Just Might Be the Best Bed and Breakfast in the World

12 March, 2010 (14:52) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

Vento di Rose is a true labor of love. The owners, Emanuela and Emidio, are some of the kindest and most generous people we have ever met. Their home and bed and breakfast is a beautifully restored Italian country house with views of medieval hilltop towns in every direction. And as if this weren’t enough, [...]

Where Do You Want to Travel Next?

1 March, 2010 (13:58) | Budget Travel, Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

Where do you want to travel next?   We’ve spent most of the winter here in Brooklyn researching the hundreds of nominations we received recently, and we’re psyched by all the new digs we’ve added.  Beyin Beach Resort in Ghana is on our new must-visit list.  So are the two fabulous cave hotels in central [...]

Super Friendly Thamel Kathmandu Boutique Hotel – Ambassador Garden Home

18 January, 2010 (14:40) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

We are really pleased to feature one of Sherry Ott’s all-time favorite places to stay, the Ambassador Garden Home in Kathmandu, Nepal, as our fourth post in our guest travel writer and blogger series.  Sherry blogs at Otts World, a popular blog that she launched over three years ago when she quit her corporate Manhattan job to [...]

Why You Should Stay at Independently Owned Hotels

8 January, 2010 (04:29) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

Darn Good Digs only includes independently and locally owned hotels in our accommodations guide, and we do so for important reasons. We strongly believe that locally owned hotels, together with all independent businesses, give our communities character and vitality. They provide diversity in an increasingly homogenized world. Yet for us, staying independent isn’t just about [...]

Extraordinary Boutique Cave Hotel in Heart of Cappadocia

15 December, 2009 (23:46) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

Our third guest post in our professional travel writer and popular travel blogger series is by Dee Andrews, the author of Travel and Travails. Dee’s blog chronicles the year she spent with her husband and two young children living in Spain, and the challenges and joys of “finding new paths on the road of life.” [...]

Exquisite Goa Boutique Hotel and Heritage Guest House – Casa Susegad

8 December, 2009 (13:23) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

We’ve asked a group of professional travel writers and popular travel bloggers to nominate their all-time favorite small hotels, b & b’s, and hostels with rooms under $150, and our second guest post is by Shelley Seale, the author of The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India. Shelley has written for National Geographic and [...]

Lisbon Dreams Guest House – A Luxurious Budget Bed and Breakfast in Lisbon

30 November, 2009 (01:55) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

We’ve asked a group of professional travel writers and popular travel bloggers to nominate their all-time favorite small hotels, b & b’s, and hostels with rooms under $150, and our first guest post is by Jeanine Barone, the author of J The Travel Authority.  Jeanine has written articles for most of the major travel publications, including National Geographic [...]

More Cool Budget Hotels – Check Out Our New Digs

16 November, 2009 (21:22) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

Make sure to check out all of our new Digs! We’ve re-designed our site to highlight not only Darn Good Digs, which are our Editors’ choices, but also other traveler reviews of their all-time favorite places to stay. Some of our favorite new Darn Good Digs include Artjungle Eco Lodge and Pousada Santa Clara, both in Bahia, [...]

Make a Reservation Inquiry Using Darn Good Digs!

9 November, 2009 (22:06) | Recommended Digs | By: darngooddigs

Darn Good Digs is now partnering with the following amazing digs to offer our readers the convenience of making reservation inquiries directly on our website: Casa Bella Rita – beautiful b&b near San Jose, Costa Rica Mosetlha Bush Camp – down-to-earth eco-safari in South Africa’s Madikwe National Park Journeys Within – super-welcoming b&b near the [...]