You reach into your wallet to pay for your hostel bed for the night, and come up empty. You dig deeper, finding only receipts and pocket lint.

You realize you’re out of money.  All you have left are some smelly socks, an overdrawn bank account and an unquenchable thirst for adventure.

What do you do?

From the strangest, to the smallest, to the kinkiest, when it comes to hotels, we’ve seen them all. But if there is one thing they all have in common, they are all on land.

In the near future when booking a hotel room you will not only be asked whether you would prefer smoking or non-smoking, but whether you would prefer underwater, amongst the clouds, or hovering through space in the earth’s orbit.

Destination Weddings catering to kids - [CNN]
Travel Heath and Safety - [Frommers]
Honeymooners attacked at Antigua Hotel - [Hotel Chatter]
A Taste of Scotland - [New York Times]
16 Million Visitors can’t be wrong - [The Expeditioner]
We need better online customer service - [Travel Rants]
Electric Cars for Vacationing - [Trifter]

One man’s journey to find another man

Here’s a fun website that asks you to name as many countries as you can in five minutes.  They tally up your score at the end.

Try it!

Santorini is widely known for its stunning white architecture with splashes of vibrant blues and various colors for structures built upon volcanic islands. Valpara íso, Chile often called The Jewel of the Pacific noted for its colorful hillside houses.

And Venice, Italy, is considered the most beautiful city in the world by many.  Check out some of these amazing cities of color.

We’re the first in line to book hotels where the room design is as important as the quality of the mattresses. But in recent years we’ve discovered a lot of style and no substance: bare spaces, a dearth of right angles, rooms that hide all amenities from sight—these are not hotels, they’re pods ready to be beamed up to the mothership.

In these tough economic times, there’s a new type of summer camp for kids.

Forget archery and swimming. No kumbaya here. Instead, talk of stock portfolios and credit card debt are de rigueur.

Jasmine is one of a growing number of children — many of whom are still in grade school — who take summertime lessons in personal finance at so-called “finance camps.” Many of the camps have three- to six-day courses that range in price from $150 to $350 for children from grade-school age to high school.

Bad beach behavior - [NJ.com]
A new commercial spaceship? - [Travelatime]
Chinese tunnels of the pacific northwest - [Bldgblog]
Learn a little about Guilin - [Mytripjournal]
Beijing with much smog before the games - [Telegraph]
Multi-use items for packing - [Matadorgoods]

Enjoying a magnificent location, 2,500 feet high in the mountains overlooking Madeira’s capital, any player distracted by the never-ending array of breathtaking views is doomed to failure on a course that demands attention from start to finish