Types of trip
Winter returns to European ski resorts
After a variable start to the winter season ski resorts across Europe have been blanketed with snow and more is predicted to fall this week. Snow started falling at the beginning of last weekend and large amounts of snow have fallen across European resorts.
Postcards from Iceland
Reykjavik’s latest down-town designer hotel, CenterHotel Thingholt, has opened its doors – revealing the sleek styling of an Icelandic architect with a string of Hollywood hotels behind her.
Experience the Caribbean in top Barbados villa
Owners’ Syndicate is exclusively offering a week’s stay at one of Barbados’s top villas, one of the world’s top rental houses, for the usual price of 6 nights, saving up to £1,660 for parties of 12 guests.
Marathon runners head to Canada
In two weeks time Athletes and Support crew from the UK, Europe and Canada will be arriving in the Northern Canadian City of Whitehorse, Yukon in anticipation of the Inaugural 6633 Extreme Ultra Marathon (the 6633 being the latitude in degrees and minutes of the Arctic Circle).
Party in Pembrokeshire
For holidaying with friends or for family get-togethers, an innovative new website - cottagesforgroups.com - has property ‘clusters’ which accommodate up to 108 people. The website is the brainchild of Coastal Cottages of Pembrokeshire and follows demand from groups of all shapes and sizes that want to take a short break or holiday together.
An eggs-treme Easter challenge!
Whether you’re looking for the next adrenaline rush, a new adventure or an extreme way to burn off some Easter egg calories – why not put your nerves to the test by climbing, swinging and jumping amongst some of the tallest trees in Eastern England at Extreeme Adventure - the newest and highest rope course to hit the UK.
New online booking system for Slovenia tourists
Slovenia Tourist Board, in conjunction with the Ministry of the Economy, has launched a new on-line Central Reservation System, to enable visitors to book accommodation and tourism services at slovenia.info, the tourist board’s website.
Ready, steady, cook...
CV Travel, currently celebrating its 35th year of offering individual houses and exceptional villas, reports a marked upsurge in requests for cook services, to combine self catering freedom with catered convenience.
Beat the winter blues in Alsace
For two weeks from the first day of spring (March 17th) until April 1st Alsace in France is being turned upside-down! Nearly one hundred events are taking place across the whole of the region to celebrate the passing of winter and the arrival of spring.
When you can't bear the holiday to end!
When you really can’t bear for the holiday to end sometimes the only answer is to buy a holiday home that you can use on a very regular basis. Many guests with Haven and British Holidays have realised this dream by buying a holiday home on one of their 33 family holiday parks around the UK.
Kuoni launches first Sri Lanka brochure
Leading longhaul specialist tour operator Kuoni Travel has launched its first ever dedicated Sri Lanka brochure offering the most comprehensive and inviting variety of escorted tours, peaceful beach retreats, good value all inclusive beach hotels and tailor made itineraries to this vibrant, enchanting country.
Australia weaves ‘Charlotte’s Web’ in Victoria
Melbourne and the rolling hills of Greendale (75km west of Melbourne) have recently been home to a talking spider and a rather cute pig! The children’s classic ‘Charlotte’s Web’, which stars Dakota Fanning and the voices of Julia Roberts, John Cleese and Oprah Winfrey, was filmed in the area.
Toast the Winelands in South Africa
South Africa's wine industry goes back to the first European settlement in Cape Town over 350 years ago and today produces some of the world’s best wines. Flight Centre, a specialist travel retailer to South Africa, is currently offering a five-night package to Cape Town and the Winelands that allows visitors to taste the best that this region offers.
Legendary Château of Nantes reopens
Following a massive 15-year renovation and restoration programme, both the fortress and the residence of the spectacular Château of the Dukes of Brittany in Nantes has reopened after a three-year public closure.
Quest Overseas expands operation
Quest Overseas, one of the UK’s leading gap year companies, is expanding its operation to provide grown up gappers, career breakers and holidaymakers with the same life changing experiences that it has been providing for gap year students since 1996.