Being There: Taller Destinations

Changing perspective is easy when locations change as well. There's nothing like a little distance to instill a new lease on life.

Tall Accommodation
The Hotel Monaco, a boutique hotelier with properties nationwide has customized a number of guestrooms to accommodate taller travelers. The tall rooms include extra-long beds (90 inches), high ceilings and raised showerheads that make staying with them more like being at home. They are also adding higher bed frames, longer bathrobes, raised vanities and toilets too.

So far the rooms are only available in Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, and Salt Lake City, but the company plans to roll them out in additional properties around the country soon. For up to date information on additional cities, check the Hotel Monaco Tall Room Page on their Web Site.

Find a Fun Music Festival
Attending a music festival is a great excuse for a fun holiday. This great Website has the latest details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America. Find your favorite genre, or use the search feature to locate festivals by date, location, performers or festival name.

Plan a Greek Holiday
The birthplace of democracy, philosophy and much more! Greece is a beautiful place and if you've thought about going to Greece, Greece Holidays can help with online bookings of hotels, appartments, package holidays, cruises, weddings, car rental, excursions for all destinations in Greece including Greek islands (Santorini, Crete, Kos, Myconos etc.) and Athens.

Kalani Resort
Located on the "Big Island" of Hawaii, The Kalani Oceanside Eco-Resort serves as a lush and tropical refuge for guests seeking nature, rejuvenation and relaxation. John Penisten told Digitalcity.com, "This ocean side retreat and conference facility offers individual travelers basic lodging and optional meal service. Choose from private bath cottages with ocean vistas, rooms in cedar lodges, triple dorm rooms or orchard campsites. The facility has acres of botanical and fruit orchards and landscaped lawns. Amenities include an Olympic-size swimming pool, two Jacuzzis, sauna, massage/wellness gazebo, recreational sports courts and covered meeting/activity hall space for groups. There are shared kitchen facilities and both shared/private bath facilities. Located about 35 miles south of Hilo, past Pahoa town on the coast highway/beach road."

Feedback from a Height Site visitor:
"My wife and I went to the Kalani Resort in Hawaii last year and it was the best holiday we've had since our honeymoon. I'm 6ft5 and she's a little over 6 feet so we can definately attest to their superior treatment of tall people! The massages were excellent and a great way to relax after hiking around the lava rocks and lush National Park nearby. We stayed in the Lodge this time but they have a great camping area that may entice us to return this year!" - Dave Jenkins.

The Netherlands
As mentioned in our Tallest? section, The Netherlands is thought to be the tallest nation on the planet. (At least this article makes those claims) Best known for tulips, windmills and liberal drug laws, The Netherlands is a great destination for taller travelers who certainly won't feel out of place walking down quaint Dutch straats and grachts, streets and canals, of the centrum district. A bonus for monolingual British and American tourists, 95% of the Dutch population under 50 years of age speaks English.

West Africa
Richard Just got back from a great adventure trip through West Africa and wanted to recommend it to other Height Site visitors. He went through Benin, Togo, and Ghana. He told us there is great site-seeing and incredibly friendly people.

He also recommends the trip because of all of the tall people he saw there. He said that one souvenir hawker in Togo must have been around 7 feet tall or possibly over (since his French is limited he could not ask him his height). But Richard told us that Height Site visitors should feel right at home among so many tall people.