Without sounding like an annoying smug blogger, I’m off to Kenya tomorrow. (Yeah, it’s hard to type that without sounding smug). I’m super excited and it’s got my friends talking about where they’d like to go on holiday next. It’s Friday afternoon and I’m guessing half of you are imagining where you’d rather be right [...]
Do you choose your holiday hotel very carefully as you may spend around 12 hours a day in your hotel? If you think about it logically you probably spend eight hours in bed, one hour having showers, doing hair, make up etc and one hour eating breakfast. So already that’s a total of 10 hours [...]
Here are the winners of the Travel Rants Consumer Awards. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Trip Advisor which won in two categories, Best Travel Planning and Best Holiday and Hotel Reviews. I’ve added my own comments about the various travel content sites. Best Travel Blog Traveling Mamas The Europe a la Carte [...]
Copyright Andrew Hayes The Guardian has announced the results of its reader poll of 2008, and for the ninth year running, Edinburgh has topped the list as favourite UK city! Their awards cover all aspects of travel, though, from airlines to tour operators to travel website. You can visit the original article here but a [...]
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 Scottish and moved to Berwick upon Tweed two years ago. I christened the area Scengland as it does feel like either Scotland or England to me. Berwick upon Tweed, lies in far north eastern corner of Northumberland. Evidently more than 60 % of Berwick residents would like be in Scotland. The majority party in [...]
Evidently UK residents are willing to spend more time researching their holiday than their mortgage. While 36% of Brits spend more than 10 hours researching a leisure trip, only 22% would be wiling to spend this amount of time on finding the best mortgage deal. Is this a rational use of time? I don’t think [...]
Believe it or not, Scotland’s most iconic image is a disused coalmine, the Lady Victoria Colliery. The Colliery, which polled 20,000 votes, was voted top from a short list of ten archive images including Rosslyn Chapel and the Rennie Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow. Lady Victoria Colliery is now home to the Scottish Mining [...]
Isn’t it amazing that a recent opinion poll highlights that US consumers are more satisfied with the customer service delivered by the IRS than by airlines. The IRS scored 63%. 1% higher than the lowest scoring cable and satellite TV companies and 2% lower than the IRS. How can the tax office, grabbing the tax [...]
It seems that my suspicions earlier this year about travellers claiming they wanted to be greener and taking on action of this front are all too true. According to a recent opinion poll only 7% of UK holidaymakers are willing to pay to offset the environmental effects of their trip. Could part of the reason [...]
