Category: Travel
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Exceptional EA: Misadventures in Train Travel
Last month represented our first visit to Florida, which began in what must surely be one of the conference capitals of the continent: Orlando. Having consistently enjoyed train travel in…
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Exceptional EA Visits Coronado Island, CA and the Hotel Del Coronado
Idyllic Coronado Who wouldn’t like it here on Coronado Island, home to an idyllic, sunny climate a quick drive or boat ride across the water from San Diego? Once you…
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Exceptional EA Visits San Diego, the Manchester Grand Hyatt and Hotel Indigo
Brimming with Sunshine and Larger Than Life Tributes San Diego. City of sunshine, ships, life sciences and tourism. The city’s locale, roughly 13 km/22 miles from Mexico’s border, will give…
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Exceptional EA Visits The Willard Hotel, Washington, DC
Beauty That’s More Than Skin Deep While striving for objectivity, let me begin by offering that The Willard ranks among this discerning assistant’s favourite hotels. It’s with good reason that…
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Exceptional EA Visits The Tuwanek Hotel, Sechelt, British Columbia
Nature and Luxury If you’re an assistant who craves a little luxury while soaking up nature, practice rolling this name off your tongue: Tuwanek. Situated on BC’s Sunshine Coast, northwest of…
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WestJet: A Very Viral Merry Christmas
Oh, how I wish this had been my flight. I did travel across the country via WestJet in the last month, but it was people travelling from Ontario to Calgary…
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(Almost) Everything You Want to Know About Travel Planning
There’s definitely something in the air around our neighbourhood this week – and on peoples’ lawns, where ghoulish creatures may be seen arising from carefully crafted front lawn “cemeteries”. Faux…
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Travel Apps for Exceptional Assistants
An exceptional EA anticipates and executes plans that reflect the preferences of her/his travellers, be it airlines and seating location on the aircraft, means of transport between airport and accommodation…
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Travelling Assistants
As assistants, many of us are responsible for coordinating domestic or international travel for the executives in our workplace and, as Exceptional EA approaches its seventh week of publication, you…