Comments on: Luxury Travel Trends, Late 2009 http://luxurylatinamerica.com/blog/2009/12/09/luxury-travel-trends-late-2009/ Luxury travel news and reviews for Mexico, Central America, and South America. Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: robby http://luxurylatinamerica.com/blog/2009/12/09/luxury-travel-trends-late-2009/#comment-3191 robby Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:06 +0000 http://luxurylatinamerica.com/blog/?p=621#comment-3191 Nice pics, i took some good one's while on the lares trek. LOL you should have seen everything I prepared for my trek in the Peruvian Andes. I took my ipod too just to keep me motivated (hey I as at one point at almost 16,000ft and needed some good music to keep taking steps). Peru rooms planned out our peru tours and also gave me a good list of what to take and what isn’t necessary on the trek. I got to see some beautiful Andean scenery and arrived at Machu Picchu on day 4 or 5 of the trek. Nice pics, i took some good one’s while on the lares trek. LOL you should have seen everything I prepared for my trek in the Peruvian Andes. I took my ipod too just to keep me motivated (hey I as at one point at almost 16,000ft and needed some good music to keep taking steps). Peru rooms planned out our peru tours and also gave me a good list of what to take and what isn’t necessary on the trek. I got to see some beautiful Andean scenery and arrived at Machu Picchu on day 4 or 5 of the trek.

]]> By: Linda M http://luxurylatinamerica.com/blog/2009/12/09/luxury-travel-trends-late-2009/#comment-2678 Linda M Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:52:09 +0000 http://luxurylatinamerica.com/blog/?p=621#comment-2678 I like the fact that hotels are finally waking up to their wasteful ways, but I still feel like its a lot of window dressing in many cases. They're still lighting up the outsides of their buildings with enough bulbs to power a small village and ignoring their own signs when it comes to washing towels hanging on a rack. Very few hotels have systems that cut the A/C off when you leave the room for 12 hours. And don't even get me started on all the bottled water. I'd gladly pay the resort for a reusable bottle I could refill with filtered water on site rather than adding more garbage made from petroleum. I'm sure I'm not alone. It's going to take a long time for the luxury hotels to really come around, especially the big chains, from what I see on a regular basis. I like the fact that hotels are finally waking up to their wasteful ways, but I still feel like its a lot of window dressing in many cases. They’re still lighting up the outsides of their buildings with enough bulbs to power a small village and ignoring their own signs when it comes to washing towels hanging on a rack. Very few hotels have systems that cut the A/C off when you leave the room for 12 hours.

And don’t even get me started on all the bottled water. I’d gladly pay the resort for a reusable bottle I could refill with filtered water on site rather than adding more garbage made from petroleum. I’m sure I’m not alone.

It’s going to take a long time for the luxury hotels to really come around, especially the big chains, from what I see on a regular basis.

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