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Ginny Prior

Oakland, San Francisco
As seen in: Bay Area News Group, Bay Area Travel Writers, Medium, The Mercury News, New Zealand Herald, East Bay Times, The Montclarion (California), The Reporter (Vacaville, CA), The Monterey County Herald, Vallejo Times-Herald, Marin Independent Journal, 7x7 and
Covers:  Travel, art, outdoor adventure, music, food, beverage, international and U.S. destinations.
Columnist,broadcaster,journalism teacher

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Ginny Prior is a longtime broadcast and print journalist who focuses primarily on travel. Ginny features destinations, worldwide, on her travel segments on Sports Byline USA. In print, she writes travel features for the Bay Area NewsGroup, Ageist, The New Zealand Herald, Diablo Magazine, Northwest Travel and Life, Southwest Travel and Life, San Joaquin Magazine, Ventura Boulevard Magazine, South Bay Magazine, 65 and 57 Degree Magazines, and numerous other publications. She is a journalism profe…

Ginny Prior’s Journalist Portfolio

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One Fine Weekend in Alberta, Canada

One Fine Weekend in Alberta, Canada

Icy-blue glaciers that gleam in the light; soaring pines framing turquoise rivers and lakes; and friendly fol…

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The Best Resorts & Hotels for Travelers with Pets - Ventura Blvd

The Best Resorts & Hotels for Travelers with Pets - Ventura Blvd

Doggie activities, amenities-and more! Travel Ginny Prior Lady Gaga does it. So do Donnie Wahlberg and Glenn …

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One Fine Weekend in Tomales Bay

One Fine Weekend in Tomales Bay

Swimming with jellyfish may not be on your bucket list, but it's one of the eye-popping experiences you can h…

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One Fine Weekend in Moss Landing

One Fine Weekend in Moss Landing

Cars pass it each day, driving to and from Monterey on Highway 1. It's the fishing village of Moss Landing, m…

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One Fine Weekend in Cabo

One Fine Weekend in Cabo

If your first thoughts when pondering spring break in Cabo are of tequila shots and bikinis, you may be surpr…

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One Fine Weekend in Calistoga

One Fine Weekend in Calistoga

It's the dead of winter. If we were reptilian, we might shed our skin about now. Instead, consider the mud ba…

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Articles

Happy Wanderer: San Francisco hotel offers hospitality’s next generation

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By Ginny Prior
| The Mercury News
A hotel robot brought me breakfast, and what happened next was humbling. A recent stay at San Francisco’s Luma Hotel unveiled the future of room service. Scan a QR code to order breakfast, and a robot butler delivers it to your door. Just make sure you’re clothed. Scan a QR code to order breakfast, and a robot butler delivers it to your door at Luma Hotel in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district. Above, Luma Hotel robots stand at the ready.
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Eye on the Hills: Cozy new Thai restaurant opens in Oakland’s Montclair

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By Ginny Prior
| The Mercury News
The Oakland hills’ Montclair district has another contender in the Thai food category, with the recent opening of Payakk on Thornhill Drive near 7-Eleven. The cozy restaurant is the passion project of Chef Nattaporn Pinpech, affectionately known as Chef Tobb, who learned to cook in her family’s kitchen in Phichit, Thailand. Chef Nattaporn Pinpech, affectionately known as Chef Tobb, appears recently in the kitchen of her newly-opened Oakland hills Thai restaurant, Payakk, on Thornhill Drive.
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Deadline Extended for BATW Travel Magazine Submissions

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By Ginny Prior
| Bay Area Travel Writers
We’ve extended the deadline for the Summer issue of BATW Travel Magazine to June 7 and invite you to submit your stories asap, if you haven’t already. As mentioned, it is preferred that your articles are tailored towards current trends in travel (for example, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or a feature about up-and-coming Croatia), but any and all topics are welcome.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first paid jjob was as a reporter for Sun Newspapers in Minnetonka, Minnesota

Have you ever used a typewriter?

What self-respecting journalist can say no?

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email is best...with the opportunity to experience the destination and find my own stories.

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