Top Things To Do in the Bahamas: Part 2

The Bacardi Distillery offers tours where you can sample delicious rum as you visit the place. There’s also a gift shop if you’d like to bring back some rum home.
Another tour worth the visit is the Versailles Gardens and the Cloisters. There’s beautiful artwork and statues brought from France with must-see gardens.
For the very best way to get to the Bahamas, charter a private jet with Sky Limo Air Charter. We’ll take care of all your private aviation needs, from start to finish. We’ll pick the perfect private aircraft for you and your guests, choose your convenient flight schedule and our Sky Limo concierge staff can even assist you with all of your reservations including hotel room reservations and car rental. If you have any specific requests such as groceries waiting for you in your hotel room or a certain gourmet food onboard your private flight, don’t hesitate to ask the world-class jet concierge services of Sky Limo. We are all here to make your traveling a wonderful experience in the sky.

Top Things To Do in the Bahamas: Part 1

The Bahamas is a great vacation destination with the sun, sand and sea and plenty of things to do. And your sky Limo private aviation company can take you there in no time. Scuba diving is a very popular activity in this area. Andros Island has earned the reputation of the best place to dive but great scuba diving for all skill levels is everywhere on the island. Golfing is another popular sport with the Grand Bahamas Island taking the title of Mecca for golfing. Paradise Island and New providence also have courses.
If you love animals, Sky Limo says you have to head to the Blue Lagoon Island, you’ll have the opportunity to swim with dolphins. You could pet, feed and dance with the lovable animals. Families love these dolphin encounters, it’s a great way to bond and enjoy quality time. You can also swim with friendly stingrays, eels and other fish.

First Commercial Spacecraft Completes Flight

According to CNN.com, two pilots flew the world’s first manned commercial spacecraft over California’s Mojave Desert just recently at 45,000 feet in the air. They were the only ones aboard the spacecraft’s test flight, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson’s dream come true. He wants to come space travel affordable and possible. Sky Limo Air Charter, you full service private aviation company, found out the spaceship is called the VSS Enterprise. It landed on the runway at Mojave Air and Space Port. Virgin Galactic is on its way to becoming the world’s first commercial space line with 370 customer deposits equaling $50 million. Sky Limo found out the future commercial operations will operate at New Mexico’s Spaceport America where there will be a runway inauguration ceremony in late October. The 60-foot-long rocket plane will be taking 60,000 feet flight. The people behind Virgin Galactic are thinking one flight a week with six people on board. Each will pay $200,000 for the ride and train for three days before going. There are about 80,000 people on the waiting list as of now.

Smartphone Apps for Traveling

Skylimo, the private aviation company located in Fort Lauderdale, FL, shares with you the latest in phone apps for traveling. Navita Translator is an app available on BlackBerry and translates more than 50 languages including Spanish, Russian, Italian and Portuguese. It’s a free app that can translate spoken words and text. So if you’re traveling somewhere and need to ask for the restroom, your Navita Translator app will come to the rescue. MetrO is another great app for traveling folks. This one helps people navigate more the 400 cities. It’s free and available on most phones like iPhone, BlackBerry and Palm. Plus, once you’ve downloaded a city, you don’t need a connection. On the MetrO app, you’ll find routes searchable by railway, subway, bus and Tram. Tripit is an app that turns your travel plans into a well organized itinerary. You can add your airline and hotel confirmation to it as well. The app, Sky Limo found out, has maps, directions, and can include dinner reservation as well. Worldmate is similar. It builds an itinerary on your iPhone or Blackberry. It has a tip calculator, a currency converter with exchange rate updates, you can even book a limo ride from it if you choose to.

More Hotels Offering Hot Breakfasts

When staying in hotels, people these days have high expectations. Guest expect a clean room, air conditioning, flat screen televisions with a wealth of fancy channels, wifi connection and of course, complimentary breakfast. People find it comforting to wake up somewhere that’s not home knowing that when it comes to their first meal of the day, they’re taken care of. Breakfast is king and hotels know it. Sky Limo Air Charter found out that 70% of US travelers consider getting a free breakfast included in their room rate extremely or very influential in choosing their hotel. This data is according to findings from Ypartnership/Harrison Group 2010 Portrait of American Travelers. 63% of business travelers agree.In the past breakfast was basic, bagels, English muffins a few pastries and single servings of butter and jam. These days hot food is now a trend in the hotel industry offering French Toast, scrambled eggs, sausage and more. According to CNN, these complimentary breakfasts are available mostly in midscale hotels and the more expensive a room is , the less likely guests are to get a free breakfast. The Waldorf Towers in the Waldorf Astoria in New York is among the few luxury hotels that offer breakfast.

Michelin Comes Out with 2011 NYC Restaurant Guide

The results for New York City’s 2010 Michelin Guide are in and 57 New York restaurants earned one or more of the guide’s highest honor, the Michelin Star. The ratings in the guide, the Sky Limo team learned are three stars ( exceptional cuisine, distinctive dishes, worth a special journey), two stars (exceptional cuisine, worth a detour) and one star (very good restaurant in its category). No NYC restaurant dropped from their 2010 ranking. Perry Street and Insieme lost their sole star while Chef Table at Brooklyn Fare entered the guide for the first time and with two stars. This year New York earned a total of 95 entries this year, more than the 65 of Paris and 62 of London. Here are some of the highlights: The restaurants that received three stars include Daniel, Jean Georges, Le Bernadin, Masa and Per Se. 2 Stars restaurants included Alto, Chef Table at Brooklyn Fare, Corton, Gilt, Kajitsu, Marea, Momofuku Ko, Soto and Picholine.
For you two star or three star gourmet dinner, let Sky Limo fly you on private jet to NYC so you can sample the very best in food and gastronomy. Just call our private aircraft representatives and you’ll be dining in New York City in no time.

Best Wining Destinations

Sky Limo, with the help of search engine Bing, bring you the top wine destinations in the world. Some, the private aviation company, can even fly you to, in complete comfort and luxury not to mention space and privacy. If you fly on a private jet, you’ll get to choose when you want to go and make up your own private itinerary. First on the top list is California Wine Country with both Sonoma and Napa featured. Bing says beyond wines, you’ll also have the chance to enjoy fine restaurants, mud baths and sample lots of cabernets and chardonnays. Williamette Valley in Oregon boasts amazing pinot noir as well as the pinot gris which is like pinot grigio but more full-bodied and creamy. Niagara on the Lake in Canada is also cited. It offers 22 wineries with mostly free tours. There are tasting rooms, a famous theater festival, antique shopping, spas and of course the famous falls. They are known for ice wines. Tuscany, Italy is also on this top wining destinations because of its combination of great architecture and wines. Maipo Valley, Chile, 20 minutes from Santiago boasts fine wineries too. This region is the oldest and most prolific of Chile’s grape-growing regions with 35% of the country’s wine produced in Maipo Valley.

Small Towns in the US

Bing online named a few of the coolest small towns in the US and the concierge services staff at Sky Limo Air Charter thought they would share it with you. If you’d like to get to any of these small towns, this private aviation company can fly you there in a private jet in no time. All you have to do is call Sky Limo and let the private aircraft company take care of the rest. So the first cool small town is Ely, Minnesota with a population of only 3,470 people. It’s known for its outdoors, with two wildlife centers, canoe and fishing outfitters. You’re always surrounded by wilderness in Ely with a million acres of lakes and boreal forests. Cloverdale, California is next with 8, 454 residents in the area. It’s about 90 miles from San Francisco with about 156 wineries mostly family-owned, so if you like wine, you’ll love this place. The downtown area is filled with art galleries, drive-ins, burgers and floats diners and more charming stores. Brevard in North Carolina is next on the list with 6, 716 people residing in the area. Think town square dances and bluegrass bands and you’ll have an image of this place.