Ryanair Flights to Dublin - Amazing
Sunday, den 20. July 2008I just booked an entire weekend city break to Dublin for the middle of August for just over £100 - hurrah!
I’ve got a flight from Manchester Airport for Friday afternoon for just £3.99, returning on Sunday for £3.99. Including taxes that comes to a total of around £30 per person. If we’d been willing to […]
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France Deals Get Cheaper
Saturday, den 19. July 2008City breaks to France are more convenient and cheaper than ever.
Eurostar has announced increases in sales of around 25 per cent so far this year and passenger sales have increased by 18 per cent, making a good proportion of the increase.
They believe most of this is due to the new high speed service from St […]
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City Breaks with Coldplay
Friday, den 18. July 2008I talked not too long ago about combining city breaks with concerts, when I discussed Madonna’s and REM’s latest tours. Now another British band, Coldplay, have launched their 2008 world tour to celebrate Viva la Vida, their fourth album that was released in June - and they have some great cities on their tour, including […]
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Design Festival
Thursday, den 17. July 2008In all our talk about city breaks, it is all too easy sometimes to forget about our home nation and our capital city of London.
This September, London will host the Design Festival and will attract visitors from far and wide across Europe. It runs from 13 - 23 September all across London. It started in […]
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Australia’s ‘Cage of Death’
Wednesday, den 16. July 2008In the city of Darwin in Australia, they’ve opened a new theme park where, on your city break or luxury holiday, you can have the chance to be dumped in a 5.5 metre tank with a crocodile, separated by just 4 cm of acrylic - nice!
The experience has been called the ‘cage of death’ and […]
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Best Airport Awards
Tuesday, den 15. July 2008Did you know they have awards for the best airport? Hong Kong has won six times out of nine years and this year, the tenth anniversary of the awards, it has won yet again - seven times!
This year they did 8.2 million interviews with travellers and they voted Hong Kong the best. Call me cynical […]
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New Cruise Ship Launched by Myleene Klass
Monday, den 14. July 2008Last Thursday, the former pop star Myleene Klass attended a ceremony in Dover to name a new cruise liner for Carnival. The new cruise ship was named the Carnival Splendor and is the first in a new, high class range of liners.
It contains amazing features like a 6,400 square metre spa and will be the […]
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Book Flights with your iPhone
Sunday, den 13. July 2008British Airways has launched a platform to allow customers to book their flights using their iPhone. The Apple iPhone launched on the 11th July.
Not only can they reserve tickets through the iPhone but they can also see real time arrival and departure information. I’m not sure that would help me. Surely that would mean that […]
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Babies Are Frequent Flyers
Saturday, den 12. July 2008Can you believe that children below the age of three have travelled more than their grandparents?
According to figures from insurance.co.uk, children under three years old are frequent flyers. 60 per cent have been abroad once already and 30 per cent have been abroad three times.
Even babies less than 6 months old have been overseas already […]
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Turkey Increasingly Popular
Friday, den 11. July 2008In the past, Spain has always been the most popular holiday hotspot for Brits, more so for last minute week in the sun trips than city breaks, but even the cities are popular with Barcelona and Madrid constantly in the top ten for popularity.
However, figures from Co-op Travel this week confirm that Turkey has outstripped […]
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