💭🧳 Lose Your Seoul

Life’s too short to STAY in places that SUCK

💭 🧳 HAPPY SUNDAY FAM

While everyone's fighting over the last turkey leg, I'm about to show some INSANE stays that'll blow your mind harder than grandma's secret recipe. 🤯

I’m talking a Swedish hotel that lets you sleep UNDERWATER (what?!), a tobacco king's mansion with a 17-HEAD shower (not even joking'), and a Seoul hotel so high up it's literally in the clouds (flex szn). This edition is stacked more than your Thanksgiving plate.

P.S. Have a Happy Thanksgiving! May your hotel pillow be fluffier than the mashed potatoes. 🦃 🛏️

LET'S DIVE IN ⤵️

💡Weekly Inn-Sight

This hotel lets you wake up in one country and enjoy breakfast in another without ever leaving the building?

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 ✨ | Suite  Spotlight

Winston Salem, NC

🇺🇸 👑 | The Most Insane University Hotel You've Never Heard Of

Meet Graylyn: A fancy mansion turned hotel on a huge 55-acre estate. Built in 1932 by tobacco king Bowman Gray Jr., it got a cool new life when his family gave it to Wake Forest University in 1972.

Now it's a hit. In 2024, USA TODAY named it the #4 best boutique hotel in America. Not bad for a college hotel!

Stay Like a Gray is their motto

• 👑 What's cool here? 86 rooms with butler service (flex!) + the legendary Bowman Gray Suite with its 17-head shower (yes, SEVENTEEN) | 🔑 Stay in either the main house (with real French castle doors!) or the Mews, which feels like you're in Europe.

Fun Facts:  🤔 They built the place with actual pieces from French castles. It has an indoor pool from 1932 (super fancy for back then). Then nearly lost it all when it started falling apart during a symphony (with 7,000 people watching 👀). Now when you stay here, you help pay for student scholarships. Tax write-off? (Ask your accountant, not me!)

Take the TikTok (video tour), and check the reviews on (TripAdvisor) - some reviews are spicy, but what do you expect when your butler's probably a sophomore trying to pay off student loans? Keeping it 💯 as always!

✨ | Suite Stay

Seoul, Korea

🏢🇰🇷 | This Place Will Have You Seoul Searching?

WOW - your Seoul searching ends HERE!! 🤯 SIGNIEL is literally chilling in the clouds - we're talking floors 76-101 of Lotte World Tower (that's 1,819 feet up, FAM!). Starting at $400/night, you're getting views that'll make your soul happy.

The amenities are STUPID GOOD: A spa by Evian (yes, the water people!), French fine dining by 3-Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alléno, and butler service that's more attentive than my mom. NOT. EVEN. JOKING.

Seoul's highest hotel is showing OFF.

• 🤯 Views that SLAP: Every room is basically a movie set with floor-to-ceiling windows. View Seoul’s skyline, the Han River, and beautiful mountains | 😮 

• 🤯 Location flex: Connected to everything - mall, theme park, aquarium, subway (but like, why leave when you're in the clouds?) | 😮 Room situation: 7 room types to choose from, each with that crazy Seoul view.

🌟 | Stay Here

Personal Pick of the Week

📍 Location: Black Mountain, North Carolina

🧳 | The Lens Lodge ^(Airbnb)

6 Bedrooms | 4 Bathrooms | 16+ Guest

⭐️ Guest Grade: 4.94 Stars | 17+ Reviews

🗣️💬 | Guest Vibe Check:

Your cheat sheet – the the 'good to know before you go’

🔥 What’s Hot:

• OMG Factor: Sleep 15 feet up in an actual camera lens with 360° mountain views and Polaroid cameras to document your unique stay.

• Luxe Details: Ultra-organized space with rainfall shower, hot tub, firepit (with s'mores kit!), and literally everything labeled (no hunting for items).

• Private Paradise: 2 secluded acres between Blue Ridge and Ellijay, with modern amenities and backup everything (seriously - even spare toothbrushes and phone chargers).

❌ What’s Not:

• Adventure Access: Last 500 feet is steep gravel - SUV recommended and plan your arrival before dark (no quick grocery runs!).

• Open Concept Living: Zero privacy between sleeping and living areas, so get cozy with your travel mates.

• Remote Trade-offs: 15-35 mins from attractions and spotty cell service (but WiFi works great) - stock up on supplies before settling in.

🤯 | STAY Inn the Know

Stay curious with these travel tidbits

1. The Dark Side of Airbnb: Creeps Filming Your Airbnb Stay? Here's Your 5-Min Security Check | 🎥 (⇨)

2. 25 Things We Didn't Know About Hotels (But Definitely Should) |🤯 (⇨)

🗞️ | Inn-side Scoop

News and Tidbits You Can’t Miss

😂 Watch Nick Saban enforce 'Daddy time' in the tub - VRBO roasts uptight Airbnb hosts

🏠 This Arizona home is casually disguised as an all inclusive resort, and it’s for sale.

🤯 Black Friday travel deals will save you thousands (Hilton 50% off, Marriott giving away $1k credits, Virgin Cruises BOGO 80% off)

• Hilton: 25 to 50% off stays

• Hyatt: up to 45% off stays or resort credits

• Marriott: up to 25% off stays

🧳 🫠 | Suitcase snippets

Bite-sized lodging news & insights

• 🌊 This city wants to build a hotel that will rotate in the ocean (link)

• 🚂 A 1909 train station converted into Utah’s newest hotel (link)

• 🎄 These 17 luxury hotels just redefined what a "holiday getaway" really means. (link)

🛎️🗣️ | Check-in chatter

Gossip from the guestbook

• 🎅 LEAKED: 10 holiday destinations without the tourist hellhole (link)

• 🍹 Eden Rock – St Barths: The crown jewel of St. Barts. Glam vibes, gourmet eats, and pure luxury since the '50s. (link)

• 🌟 The A-listers' top LA hotel just snagged “best in the city” — oh, and did we mention the heated rooftop pool? (link)

👀 | Stays Gone Wild

The Craziest Stays Around the INN-ternet

This week’s “STAYS gone wild”…

Meet the Utter Inn: a fire-engine red Swedish cottage that takes "deep sleep" literally with its bedroom under Lake Mälaren.

Topside looks like a typical tiny house that got lost from its fjord. But descend the ladder and - surprise! - you're sleeping with the fishes (the good way) in an underwater glass chamber.

Located 1km from shore in Västeråsfjärden, your floating mini-paradise comes with a sun deck for those "before the deep sleep" vibes. Made for two, it's perfect for couples who find regular hotels... well, shallow 🏠⬇️🐟

🫢🗣️ | Tattle TELL 

The Truth About Vegas's Cheapest "Resort" (Yikes)

EXPOSED: A YouTuber just showed us what $378.69 REALLY buys you at Vegas's "budget" castle... (here's what he found)

His video shows:

• Rooms with mystery odors and dated furniture

• A pool area that's more nightclub than family-friendly (complete with closed slides & scattered towels)

• The famous medieval theme that hasn't been updated since... forever

• A surprisingly decent buffet (with bottomless mimosas!) but good luck with the service

👉 Watch the full tour here (spoiler: this might change your Vegas budget hotel plans)

PS: At least the resort fee is among the lowest on the Strip... if that helps? 😅

🫶  | Thanks for reading

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