Seniors travel to Manhattan for Broadway shows and great restaurants. They fly to Los Angeles for the sunshine and beaches. However, they visit Chicago mostly for business meetings and conventions.

Does anyone ever go to the Windy City just for the pleasure of staying in a Loop hotel?  The answer is yes, and you can find just the right ones that fit your budget and plans for business, pleasure or sightseeing in that great city. A luxury, casual and budget hotel suggestion:

Luxury: Trump International Hotel & Tower: Forget politics and check out The Donald’s Chicago’s digs. I has a great location, as well as business and senior tourist-friendly facilities. A magnificent sight, the Trump is a soaring 92 stories of shiny steel and glass.

If a wheeled carry-on or suitcase will be with you when you arrive in Venice, make sure you don’t break the law! Tourists and other visitors are no longer permitted to drag wheeled bags along the city’s ancient streets and bridges.

According to the Venice City Council, they cause too much damage to the fragile thousand-year-old paving stones and steps. So, if Venice is on your bucket list, lug a backpack, fanny bag and anything else that won’t rut the streets. Offenders could be fined $600 or more.

Incidentally, the law is a bit discriminatory. It does not apply to local merchants and workers who regularly schlepp through the city’s stone streets with metal-wheeled carts and other heavy vehicles.

Your travel4seniors.com editor recently roamed the exciting museum in the capital city and enjoyed photographing and mixing with some familiar figures. He was proud to share a thumbs-up salute with a very realistic Pope Francis.

Your travel4seniors.com editor pauses near the standing rock structures at the ancient religious site on a cold day.