If you’d like to read some interesting blog posts about cities all over the world, including my post about my revaluation of my birthplace of Dundee then take a look at the Special Holiday Edition of the Carnival of Cities. I’ll be hosting the next Carnival of Cities on the theme of “off the beaten [...]
Let’s get the New Year off to a great start with the first Travel Blog Carnival. The organiser, Darren of Travel Rants, wants to showcase posts about travel that are inspiring, interesting and informational. Bearing this in mind I was also influenced by my desire to highlight the benefits of getting off the beaten track [...]
I’ve gone into blog carnival overdrive and will be hosting the Carnival of Cities on Monday 7 January 2008. My theme is “off the beaten track” cities, less well known cities that still have a lot to offer but are overlooked in favour of the tourist magnets. So if you’d like to let us know [...]
Travelodge launch their lowest ever room rate of £9 per night today. You do have to book at least 6 months in advance, by 31 January 2008, on the non refundable rate but I still think it’s a great deal considering their rooms can sleep up to 2 adults and 2 kids. Not all Travelodges [...]
Have Airtours been looking at the Europe a la Carte website and decided to follow my line of offering their customers the opportunity to “get a more authentic travel experience during their visit to Europe”? Airtours are now offering “Local Flavours” holidays so you can have an authentic package holiday. There is emphasis on strong [...]
I read about Meeting the French and thought that arranging contact between local residents and visitors sounded such a good way to make a visit to Paris more authentic that I wanted to find out more. So here’s the background to Meeting the French in founder Laurence Monclard’s own words. 1 What is the aim [...]
Kango have launched a travel blog search widget to make it easier to find and search travel blogs. If there are any travel blogs that you’d like to see added to the search engine you can make suggestions. [Your user agent does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you [...]
Direct Line Cruises offer discounted rates on cruises with major cruise lines such as Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival Cruises. Direct Line Cruises has grown to be a leading cruise line specialist agency from humble beginnings in 1995. The company was started in 1995 as a part time home business by [...]
When I was doing research for my post about the Best UK Budget Hotel Chain, I found some great weekend offers with Ibis hotels. Prices like 120 euros on the 3 nights weekend deal in Lyon at a fairly central hotel and 95 euros in Viseu in Portugal. Visue – Portugal by Portugese_eyes Amazingly this [...]
The UK budget hotel sector is forecast to grow from its current market share of 12% to 26% over the next 2o years. At present the largest 4 players are Premier Inn, Travelodge, Holiday Inn Express and Ibis hotels. I decided to look at each of these budget hotel chains to judge which is the [...]
