By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
The worst hotel of the year? McAlpine House in Broome, Western Australia. In 2009 I stayed in about 70 different hotels in 16 countries. Many of them were strictly one night stands although there were a fair number of two or three nighters, the longest visit was six n...
I love the ‘view out the window’ and take lots of photographs when I fly places but we don’t often get a good aerial look at the airport. Flying in to San Jose, Costa Rica the flight in front of us was a bit slow getting off the runway and our pilot had to abandon th...
My short circuit of Costa Rica started in San José from where I took a bus to La Fortuna. Departing the San Carlos bus station in San José La Fortuna stands a few km north of the active Arenal Volcano and – hardly surprisingly – most of the activity is centred...
© Tony Wheeler’s Travels 2013