Epinions Recent Reviews for kboo

Pretending to be rich, famous, and beautiful in L.A.

Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:09:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - June 7: Reasons not to like the W Westwood 1. It's in L.A. New Yorkers are supposed to hate L.A. 2. W hotels in New York are pretentious, cold, and have teeny, tiny rooms at high (around $300) prices. 3. I can be very insecure about my...

Hotel Maroma: Maroma: Less than 30 minutes from Cancun, but what a difference...

Sun, 9 Nov 2003 16:04:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - I knew we were in for a different experience when our transportation to Maroma showed up. We had just spent 5 days at spa resort on the Riviera Maya (the stretch of coastline on the Yucatan Peninsula that goes south from Cancun toward Tulum). Punctual t...

Fancy, but not my kind of fancy.

Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:52:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - The Waldorf=Astoria is a Park Avenue icon, a legend. I remember being swept up in the fantasy as an 8-year old child, when I read a Reader’s Digest account of a serviceman who proposed to his wife on the roof of the Waldorf during World War II. He was...

Six months later: The Long Walk Home

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:17:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Today I sent my husband off to war. Today marks the six-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks that turned me into a refugee in my own city. Today is the second-hardest day of my life.

After seeing both planes crash into the WTC from...

I saw it all

Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:44:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - A son's first day of kindergarten. A stop at the optometrist to pick up a new pair of glasses. Just one more tap of the snooze button before getting up. How many times do we go back and think about how seemingly unimportant decisions change our lives,...

Classic French with winning wine list

Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:54:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Cynicalone and sloucho have challenged me to write a restaurant review that doesn't mention the food. Alas, this is not that restaurant review. Montrachet is a small classic French restaurant serving upscale bistro food. Tucked away behind an...

Sandals St. Lucia Golf Resort and Spa: Like vanilla pudding, it's easy to swallow, digest, and forget.

Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:13:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Maybe it's that so many people work so many crazy, stress-filled jobs, that every once in a while you want to be babied. I am all for being pampered-- in short doses. Give me a massage, and I'm rejuvenated. Take care of my elemental bodily needs (eat,...

"Allegro" means "quickly"-- hurry to this fun and funky boutique hotel!

Wed, 30 May 2001 19:57:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Hotel Allegro is a small [FN1] hotel located in the heart of downtown Chicago (the Loop). Renovated and revamped about three years ago, it is one of three boutique hotels in Chicago run by the Kimpton Group, each with a different "theme,"...

Club Med: Buccaneer's Creek, Martinique: Party down with lots of drunk, sweaty Americans!

Wed, 2 May 2001 18:39:29 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Our group of friends decided to take a vacation together. Dr. kboo and I were the only married ones, but none of us had much money. Our main concern was to escape a brutally cold March in New York, spend only a small amount of money, and do some diving...

Ciragan Palace Hotel Kempinski: The perfect fig

Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:23:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - I have found perfection. On a glorious September day in Istanbul, I saw the perfect fig. Quartered, it had no bruise, no blemish. The outer skin was a glossy, smooth, dark purple, the inner flesh a glistening rosy pink, filled with tiny, perfectly...

Boogie Nights of Cocaine

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:13:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Blow tests our feelings about crime and its portrayal in Hollywood. In most movies and TV shows, Criminals are Evil and the movie doesn't rest until the Criminals are Blown Away. The characters are one-sided, allowing us, the viewers, to come away...

Madonna (Ciccione) + Marie Antoinette = Le Cirque 2000

Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:58:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - I had visited Le Cirque 2000 when it first opened (back in 1997? 1998?) in the Villard House, part of the Helmsley Palace Hotel. It had taken nearly a month to get reservations, and the room was packed with celebrities at every turn. It was difficult not...

Wretched excess, historical inaccuracy, and LOADS of fun!

Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:19:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Calling Rasputin only a "restaurant" is like calling War and Peace "that little book by that Tolstoy guy." Located all the way out in Brighton Beach (near Coney Island), I never would have tried Rasputin had it not been for a Russian...

I only have one butt. What'm I going to do with two bathrooms?

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:56:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Especially when each bathroom is barely big enough to turn around in? (And I have a big ol' butt.)

For a hotel that calls itself a "luxury" hotel, it's not all that luxurious! I love staying in hotels with a history. Given a choice, I...

It's better than the book. Unfortunately, that's not saying much...

Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:15:44 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Some people never learn. I know I don’t. After plowing through Hannibal, the novel, I swore I wouldn’t give another penny to Thomas Harris and the Hannibal Lecter enterprise. Although I truly enjoyed The Silence of the Lambs and Red...

Archived Web Services Reviews: “And the winner is…” (Top Ten Epinions Write-Off)

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:12:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - This Epinion is dedicated to Elerad and the warmer, friendlier Epinions of the last millenium.

Last month, shortly before Epinions had its major reconstructive surgery (I was going to call it a facelift, but that would be too kind),...

I got food poisoning here. Need I say more?

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:46:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - To make the 100-word limit, I suppose I must…

I have only gotten food poisoning twice in my life, once at a privately catered event (bad fried chicken did me in) and once at Edward Moran's. This from someone who eats pretty much...

My favorite pizza in New York City, hands down.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:31:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Lombardi's makes the best pizza in NYC: a thin-crust, slightly charred round the edges disk of pure pizza heaven. The secret may be the coal-burning oven- the crust is thin and crispy, yet still a little moist once you break through the initial crust...

Archived Restaurant Reviews: Wild Blue: Food coma at 1,353 feet

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:21:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Wild Blue is the smaller, more casual sister to Windows on the World. The Windows on the World complex is located at the top of One World Trade Center, and consists of the main restaurant, Windows on the World, the much cozier Wild Blue, a...

Pampering for people and pooches

Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:49:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Boo, Dr. kboo and I stayed in the DC area over New Year’s 2001 while visiting family. Since I also had work to do, we needed a place that was business-friendly and dog-friendly. Having never tried a Four Seasons hotel- but having heard of their...

Animal lovers, STAY AWAY!!

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 02:30:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - Why the title? Because there are numerous wild chickens all over the island, and if you stay at the Moorea Beachcomber Parkroyal, you will find yourself thinking like Mrs. Tweedy from Chicken Run: The only good chicken is a dead chicken!...

Truly fine wines, reasonably priced. (Good food, too)

Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:36:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - This is a re-post of a review of Veritas written 6-20-00, before Epinions had created a separate section for this restaurant:

If I were handing out restaurant awards and honors, Veritas would be my #1, hands down winner in the...

I'm waiting for video slots in the seat backs...

Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:50:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - It's a good thing all flights are nonsmoking, because there's so much hairspray on a National flight that the whole plane would probably blow up with a stray spark. All right, I'm exaggerating. But I really couldn't find much to recommend this new...

kboo's #100: More like Typhoon Brewing...

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:56:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - I admit it. I finally met someone from Epinions face to face, and not by accident. And it coincided (honestly) with my 100th review.

Ah, if only we knew then what we know now...

Like ships that pass in the night...
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Getting away from it all. Really, really far away.

Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:02:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kboo - How can I describe in words the wild beauty of Rangiroa, one of my favorite places on earth? We spent four days on a tiny strip of land 10 kilometers long, and a few hundred meters across. It rises to a whopping 2 meters above sea level at its highest...