Types of trip
Keeping the kids happy this Easter
Alamo Rent A Car is offering customers the ultimate Easter gift to help them get out and enjoy the first signs of Spring. Booking a week’s rental from just £16 a day or 3 days for the price of 2* will put a spring in the step of anyone wanting to explore the UK this Easter.
Virgin Trains Launches New Website
Virgin Trains is leading the railway industry with its new website designed to make searching and buying the cheapest possible ticket far simpler. The site provides customers with a one-stop-shop from enquiry through to ticket purchase. Already over 60,000 Virgin Trains customers have bought tickets through the new improved website.
Backpackers seek out new career destinations
Backpackers will soon lose their tag of free-spirited wanderers if a recent study from HostelBooker.com is representative of a wider trend amongst young people.
Eco-friendly bargain breaks!
With global warming and concern for the environment high on everyone’s agenda it’s good to find ways to help ….and actively choosing to take a holiday closer to home could be the first step on the way to minimising your carbon footprint. And with prices from as little as £79 for a four night break for up to four people you can save money as well as saving the planet!
New exhibition celebrates Highlands & Islands
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum will next month launch its second major exhibition - Fonn's Duthchas: Land and Legacy - since reopening after a three-year, £27.9m refurbishment. The exhibition celebrates the history, culture, music, language, geology and geography of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Fonn's Duthchas: Land and Legacy will open on 6 April.
Forest chiefs swap pens for pickers!
The three New Forest chief executives took their work outside, and made a stand to stamp out litter. They joined together to officially launch Forest Force, starting with a week-long event to encourage hundreds of volunteers to swoop on litter blackspots in the New Forest National Park and beyond, starting on Saturday 24 March.
Easy alternatives for traveling golfers
The Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau, Inc. invites golfers to enjoy golf at one of its 35 golf-and-resort properties, which combine to form Pennsylvania’s “Pocono Mountains: Discover Golf’s Great Destination Secret”, a coalition of properties which include an excellent mix of modern and classical designs.
Have a European Easter egg-stravaganza
Indulge your chocoholic side & stay in a family friendly holiday home this Easter break. Interhome, one of Europe’s largest providers of privately owned rental properties, invites you to take a tempting Easter break in one of Europe’s chocolate hotspots. Interhome has over 20,000 rental properties to choose from, so whether you want to bring the children, take a break with friends or treat your partner, Interhome are sure they have the ideal home away from home this Easter.
Get into the swing - The U.S. Open
History will be made when Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania hosts the U.S. Open Golf Championship in June 11-17, 2007. This is the first time that the U.S. Open has returned to a course eight times. Oakmont Country Club is regarded as one of the most challenging golf courses in the country with its deep, thick rough and fast, and hard greens.
Lomond & Clyde Springfest
The elegant seaside town of Helensburgh is the place to celebrate Spring in Scotland. The town is the main centre for the Lomond & Clyde Springfest taking place this year from 28 April to 4 May. Helensburgh becomes a riot of colour during this unique annual festival which blends gardening, music, art, walks, and family fun, and brings a wee touch of Japanese culture to Scotland!
The living is easy in High Weald
Close your eyes and picture the scene: ambling, cycling or driving along leafy country lanes with views over rolling hills, pretty woodlands and patchwork fields, glimpses of historic houses and gardens. Imagine stopping for coffee, lunch, tea or a stroll in a charming town or village where weatherboarded houses, oasts or Tudor buildings nestle round a fine church or picturesque green – the whole bathed in English sunshine… this is the High Weald of Kent, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Spring into the Easter Bank Holiday
Easter Eggs, Fairies, Sword Fighting, Knights and Squires. English Heritage has a fun packed programme of events over the Easter bank holiday weekend, ranging from traditional Easter egg hunts to medieval knights’ trails at historic sites across the country. An ‘egg-cellent’ collection of days out worth talking about!
Celebrate Easter – Semana Santa style
When over-indulging in overpriced chocolate eggs seems the least interesting way to spend Easter, then check out what Spain has to offer with online hotel booking specialists Hotelopia (hotelopia.co.uk) and reserve now from just £15 per person, per night – less than the cost of a large Easter egg and easier on the waistline.
Sydney celebrates 75th birthday of harbour bridge
Sydneysiders know how to celebrate – and celebrate they did yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered around the harbour foreshore to witness the historic 75th birthday celebrations, with 200,000 people walking across the bridge en-mass. Today marks the official 75th birthday of the bridge, one of Australia’s most famous landmarks.
Unforgettable luxury holidays
Travellers seeking an exclusive luxury getaway at the world's finest hotels will find holidays tailor-made for them in the exclusive new 2007 holiday brochure launched by Dnata Holidays. The brochure’s product range reflects Dnata Holidays’ new focus: Luxury holidays featuring premier resorts and hotels across 25 popular destinations.