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Planos Holidays arranges safe return of clients
Planos Holidays, the specialist tour operator to Paxos, together with its sister companies Just Grenada and Just Tobago, all of which use XL Airways, have made arrangements via the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for the safe return of all their clients following the demise of the charter airline early on Friday morning.
Shakespeare Country scoops top industry awards
Shakespeare Country is delighted to announce that two of its members have recently scooped a top industry award for their services.
Brits choose short breaks with partners over friends
Weekend and overnight breaks in the UK are popular choices for today's busy Brits. A new survey reveals that three quarters of us prefer to take breaks with partners rather than friends, confirming that we like time out for romantic reasons as much as recreational ones.
World Expeditions’ top 5 for Christmas and New Year
Christmas is coming and with it World Expeditions are offering dates to destinations far more exciting than the sofa watching bad re-runs and bickering with your family. We have put together a list of our Top 10 favourite ways to celebrate the holiday season.
Swim with the dolphins this half term
You can give your children the opportunity to swim with Dolphins during their half term break with Small Families, the UK’s leading operator for single parent holidays.
Credit crunch beating safaris
Morrison’s is the smallest of the UK’s Big Four supermarkets but the leader in BOGOF deals, recently published credit-crunch-busting figures backing up its business model. However it doesn’t have exclusive rights on special offers and for those more interested in a different Big Five, Wildlife Worldwide is currently saving travellers £550 p/p on selected 9-night safari holidays exploring Kenya’s rich natural history, valid only for October 2008 departures from London.
Goat news for Central Asia
Whilst it’s good news for goats in DR Congo (a herd were recently released from jail – don’t ask!), the same cannot be said for their Central Asian cousins. For some, ‘Goat Polo’ probably won’t be on their spectator sport wish list, but it’s a sporting option offered by Dragoman Overland, during its mega 12 and a half week overland from Turkey to Kathmandu.
The hills are alive with the sound of hoof-beats
A special half-term offer to Salzburg takes in the Sound of Music tour followed by a week of hiking, hacking and yodling in beautiful Alpine scenery. Sing like Maria to your heart's content, as you visit the historic walled city of Salzburg where scenes from the famous film was shot. The tour includes the 18th century Mirabell Gardens, where Maria and the children were seen singing 'Do-Re-Mi' around the statue of Pegasus, the winged horse, and Leopoldskron Castle which was used as the von Trapp family home.
Release your inner explorer
Peregrine Adventures’ recently-launched range of flagship expedition-style tours is proving that adventurous spirit is alive and well, with several tours already sold out and limited spaces remaining on the others. Expeditions are each led by a Peregrine Destination Manager and escorted by local guides. The journeys are all spiked with an element of the unexpected, as itineraries venture into genuinely remote and rarely-visited areas of Asia and South America.
Peak to peak
Whistler Blackcomb's Peak to Peak Gondola is already winning awards and it hasn't even opened yet! Leading guidebook, Where to Ski and Snowboard, awarded the development at the resort in British Columbia, Canada, the accolade of 'Best North American Development in 2008' at the book's launch on Monday.
Banish those winter blues
If the less-than-impressive British summer has left you feeling as flat as a pancake, Select Resorts has a mixture of excellent deals that will warm your heart this winter.
Winter walking - Loving Libya
Don’t know if we can mention the ‘C’ word at this stage, but for walkers hoping to spend the festive season (still can’t say it!) in warmer climes, Walks Worldwide emphasises the need to book early. Their 12-day Libyan Explorer guided walking holiday offers the exotic and unusual, plus with guaranteed winter sunshine and inspirational desert scenery, it will more than fill the bill.
Equine companions in Turkey
Equine Adventures has last minute availability on a 7-day horse-riding holiday through Turkey’s ancient Cappadocia, a fantasyland of ‘fairy chimneys’ rock formations, frescoed rock-hewn churches, troglodyte villages and beautiful valleys, departing London 5th October 2008.
Cultural Olympiad celebrations open in Windsor
The 2008 Windsor Festival, will be celebrating the launch of the Cultural Olympiad for England’s South East region on Saturday, 27 September with a stunning light art walking trail commissioned from artist Laurent Louyer leading from the town centre to the riverside, lighting up familiar sights in an amazing, new and creative way.
Find your way in the forest
A new Ordnance Survey map has just been published which charts in full the latest developments in The National Forest. It marks the increase in woodland since the previous 2005 edition of the map from 16% to nearly 18% over the 200 square miles of the Forest.