I’ve got a new Europe travel planning challenge coming up: organising a trip to Germany with my new baby to introduce him to his relatives. At the time of our trip he’ll be about four months old (hopefully an ideal time to travel) and over the next few weeks I’m going to use this experience [...]
I’ve been looking at car hire prices from Rome Ciampino airport for nine days in mid May. I’m taken aback by the high prices, the best price I can find for petrol supermini such as a Renault Clio is £254 with Econony Car Hire, including two drivers and no insurance excess to pay. by casewell_tom [...]
You could enjoy a budget “do-it-yourself” Winter Sun holiday in the Alicante region in Spain for as little as £133 per person, based on two sharing. Flights – £52 per person based on return flights from Edinburgh to Alicante with Ryanair costing £52 per person, paying with Visa Electron to avoid card fees of £4 [...]
As modern tourists we tend to travel fast. We fly in, grab a hotel room (or hostel bed), see all the tourist sights, try a local meal or two and zip back home again. We stay within cities, we are surrounded by other tourists and we do it all in a hurry before our days [...]
It’s really hard to answer the question “Should you hire a car in Italy?”. It depends on: 1 Where you want to visit – if you want to visit a one or a few major cities such as Rome, Florence. Venice a car is just a pain in congested traffic and one way systems, difficult [...]
If you hire a car at Pisa airport where the rental company has a policy of returning the car with a full tank of fuel you may find it virtually impossible to fill up the fuel tank of your rental car. When we were on our way to the airport on a Saturday afternoon, the [...]
Economy Car Hire are offering a 10% discount on bookings made online for Spain and her islands during July and August 2008, if you book before the 11 June. Alpujarras by traskas I’ve used Economy Car Hire twice and rate them highly as they have a no excess policy, unlike some other so called “inclusive” [...]
Easycar.com have done some research into the causes of arguments between British couples when driving a hire car abroad. My ears pricked up at this as my husband and I will be hiring a car to explore off the beaten track in southern Tuscany and Umbria at the end of this month. It doesn’t exactly [...]
I’m always trying to point out the potential pitfalls of car hire because it is complicated to come up with best all round car hire deal. You should never purchase car hire on price alone, you really just examine all aspects of the car rental agreement. If I hire a car abroad once a year [...]
On my return flight with Easyjet last week, I glanced through the in flight magazine and was dismayed by the easyJetHoliday three page spread advert. One page described the tale of woe of a couple who’d put together their own holiday, spending all evening looking for hotels which caused the computer to crash twice, then [...]
