Types of Trip

Christmas in a tower for two

Looking for a quiet Christmas or New Year for two? Can’t think of an amazing present for your truelove? Too late to escape from the family festivities? It isn’t - thanks to the launch this week of what is Northumberland’s tallest, smallest and most unique self catering accommodation, and Christmas gift – The Outchester Ducket.

Half price winter sun at Kizingoni Beach

Enjoy some African sun this Christmas with this fantastic half price offer from Kizingoni Beach in Lamu, Kenya. Kizingoni Beach offers the perfect luxurious holiday with every whim and desire catered for in this unique boutique hotel experience.

Cruising through the crunch

A boating holiday is not just a form of transport but your passport to the real history and culture of your chosen destination and with a brand new fleet for 2009, EBH are cruising ahead with development plans despite the current economic downturn. Holiday-makers will be spoilt for choice with a range of new routes, bases and boats added to the already impressive portfolio of boating adventures.

Go4travel.net unveils travel predictions for 2009

With the recession in full swing, belt-tightening Brits will be thinking long and hard about where to holiday in 2009. Martin Chiazza, founder of go4travel.net, predicts what’s going to be top of the holiday lists for next year.

Double the fun for all the family

Cruise-loving kids can now take well behaved parents on holiday too, thanks to a new promotion launched by Costa Cruises. Fed up with loud snoring, sleep talking and late night television, the new offer gives children the chance to take advantage of double cabins – one for them and one for their noisy parents – providing more space to relax and unwind in comfort.

Walking South Africa's Eastern Cape

Walking specialist operator, Ramblers Worldwide Holidays, has launched a new holiday to South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape. This is a 20 day, half board ‘adventure’ which embraces some of the most unspoilt destinations.

Get your skates on for a visit to Bristol this winter

December is here, the Christmas countdown is on and Bristol is the place to be for a winter wonderland of festive events and celebrations. Visit Bristol for a short break, a shopping trip or to simply soak up the atmosphere as the city sparkles with light and colour. There is so much to unwrap this winter that a special website visitbristol.co.uk/winter has been created to showcase the array of seasonal activities taking place in the city.

Hit the heights across Canada’s spectacular peeks

No matter where you travel in Canada you’ll discover record-breaking natural wonders, feats of engineering wizardry and marvels of man-made ingenuity. Explore Canada on a cross-country peak-to-peak tour that includes the world’s most extraordinary gondola, Canada’s highest mountain, its tallest tower and its most powerful tides.

Ski holidays on the up despite pound’s downward slope

Ski-mad Brits are refusing to sacrifice their winter holidays by turning their back on the recession and heading to the slopes. Even the falling pound, which means a lack of extra spending money, isn’t putting ski-crazy Britons off scouring the net for the best bargains to bring down the cost of their winter break.

A real rum do this Christmas

Christmas just isn’t complete without some rum sauce on the pud, but there’s only one place to go, if you want to make your festivities a real rum do this year. Award-winning attraction, The Rum Story, in historic Whitehaven in the Western Lake District, is the spiritual home of everything to do with rum and, even today, the source of the finest dark spirit of them all – Jefferson’s Rum.

Skint skiers forced to stay at home or take the budget option

New research from travel insurance company InsureandGo reveals that three out of four people (75%) who have been skiing or snowboarding before are going to stay at home this season, providing more evidence that the economic downturn is starting to hit people in the pocket.

Explore Ecuador’s volcanic landscape on horseback

Travellers are being given the opportunity to ride across arid plains and lava flows, through wetlands and woodlands, over grassy hills dotted with wild flowers, circuit the base of the world’s highest active volcano – majestic, snow-capped Cotopaxi, staying in historic haciendas, inns and isolated farmhouses along the way during Equine Adventure’s Around Cotopaxi riding adventure.