Travel News

Take your dog to Brighton for a fun time away
23 September 2012

Travel News: Brighton wins Award for Britain’s most dog-friendly Place
Chosen by Cesar ambassador and campaign judge, Jodie Kidd, Brighton was selected following a nationwide search, which asked people to nominate their favourite place to visit with their pet pooch.   Brighton, ...

Do you suffer post-holiday blues?
21 September 2012

Travel News: Brits take Nearly two weeks to beat the post-holiday Blues
The study of 2,000 Brits calculated the exact time it takes for people to lose their holiday glow and get back in the swing of things at the office. And results ...

The Royal couple visited the Far East on behalf of the Queen
19 September 2012

Royal Tour of Asia Sparks Rise in Bookings to the Far East
As the Kate Middleton topless pics scandal continues, the royal couple seems to have sparked a sharp boom in bookings to Far East destinations that they visited as part of ...

Number 1 book left behind in the Travelodge
14 September 2012

Most left Behind Books in Hotel Rooms
In a bid to flee reality for a world of fantasy and fiction, Britons have become a nation addicted to trilogies according to the Travelodge 2012 books left behind index. For ...

Holiday wi-fi
13 September 2012

Travel News: Biggest Holiday rip-offs Revealed
Last week, international hotel group Accor announced it will make in-room internet and WiFi free of charge for guests. The Skyscanner survey finds that this will be a welcomed change, ...

beach couple
9 September 2012

Don't take off Uninsured, says Age UK
Age UK Enterprises is urging customers not to travel without insurance – even if they only go on a short break. According to a survey by ABTA2 a fifth of all ...

holiday love
6 September 2012

Falling in Love tops list of Reasons why Brits go on Holiday
Love was the top thing people wanted to return with from holiday, followed by a tan and new friendships, according to the survey by  dating website, MissTravel.com. There is a common ...

Cambridge
5 September 2012

Cambridge: The Varsity Hotel & Spa
Rooftop Cinema Throughout the spring and summer, The Varsity Hotel & Spa in Cambridge will be screening a season of cult, classic and contemporary films with a pop-up cinema on their ...

traveller
3 September 2012

Moaning Brit Travellers Revealed to be a Myth
The British are among the five most positive nations when it comes to posting reviews of accommodation properties worldwide on TripAdvisor, with an average score of 4.1 out of five ...

route 66
1 September 2012

Brits name Route 66 as their Favourite U.S road trip
British holidaymakers take to the open road to explore famous sites such as Elvis’ favourite, The Metro Diner and Meteor city along Route 66. The 2450-mile long scenic route, famous for ...

sunbeds
26 August 2012

Brits Thoughts on Pool and Beach Etiquette Revealed
A survey of over 8,000 British travellers reveals that despite 84 per cent of Brits believing it to be unacceptable to get up early to reserve a sun lounger, 46 per ...

travel tech
25 August 2012

Laptops are a Travel Essential for Brit Holidaymakers
The results showed that Brits find it increasingly hard to switch off from social media sites when on holiday, with nearly half of us packing a laptop or a tablet ...

travel news
25 August 2012

UK’s Rudest and Friendliest Airports
At the opposite end of the scale, Edinburgh gets the thumbs up from summer travellers, coming in as the UK’s friendliest, with Newcastle a very close second. Skyscanner asked more than ...

Prince Harry
23 August 2012

"The Prince Harry Effect" - Virgin Holidays Reaps the Reward
Since Prince Harry’s touch down in SinCity, Virgin Holidays has seen a spike in interest across all channels, as Las  Vegas enquiries rocketed by a third compared to the same week ...

What's in your beach bag?
20 August 2012

Value of Holiday Beach Bag Soars to over £3000
Holidaymakers are sunning themselves on the beach with over £3000 worth of must-have 'essentials' in their beach bags, according to new research. Debenhams Travel Insurance found the average beach bag is now ...

What do you like to do most on holiday?
17 August 2012

How Holidays Create a Lifetime of Memories
New research, released to celebrate the 100th Virgin Holidays retail store opening in Sainsbury’s, Maidenhead, shows that despite the economic climate jet-setting Brits will still enjoy an average of two ...

London has well and truly made its mark on the world stage
16 August 2012

Olympic Success sees Foreigners Flock to London
With an estimated worldwide television audience of four billion, the London Olympics has left millions of foreigners eager to visit Blighty, with Europe’s travel search site Skyscanner witnessing a massive ...

Are you ready for Rio 2016?
16 August 2012

Brits are Ready to Bring the Party to Rio
As London celebrated the culmination of its highly successful Olympics game, the buzz began to build for Rio, the next host city. On Sunday 12 August holidaymakers were visiting Cheapflights.co.uk ...

Make sure you have all necessary documents before travelling to the USA
15 August 2012

Holidaymakers to the USA told to Check Entry Documents to Avoid Travel Misery
There is only one month to go before millions of UK travellers who applied for a free two-year permit to travel to the United States of America, in the weeks ...

Robert Pattinson
14 August 2012

Brits Flock to L.A to Comfort R-Patz
Following the sad news of the split of British heart throb Robert Pattinson and his long term girlfriend Kristen Stewart, the iconic U.S Motel 6, has seen a 15 per cent increase ...

Forget relaxing, over 50s want adventure
12 August 2012

"Grey Gap-Years" Gathering Momentum
The survey, commissioned by Thomas Cook, discovered that 44 per cent of over-50’s admit to being jealous of the amount of travelling youngsters do nowadays but 40 per cent said that they intended ...

What's in your beach bag?
10 August 2012

Travellers Beach bags are Packing Goods Worth up to £600
When asked about the items we carry in our beach bags and their value, the poll shows the average cost of a beach bag amounts to hundreds of pounds per person. Over ...

Workaholics can refresh with a quick nightcation break
9 August 2012

Nightcation Breaks - A Growing Trend Among Workaholic Britons

So big is the problem that one in ten British workers is cramming a whole extra week of unpaid work on top of their working schedules. Meanwhile a third of ...

Visit Chester while you're there
8 August 2012

Travelodge Launches the First Designer Outlet Hotel
Travelodge has opened its 513th hotel at the UK’s largest fashion designer shopping outlet, Cheshire Oaks in Ellesmere Port. The opening marks the first UK launch of a designer outlet ...