- Jun 11
- 1 min
Seville gets new 5 star hotel
Seville has a new hotel under the Only YOU “lifestyle brand”. With treats from a local pâtissier availably in its lobby, the five star...
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- Jun 10
- 1 min
Faroes to launch tourist tax
The dramatically beautiful Faroe Islands are to introduced a tourist tax. No need to groan if you’e planning an imminent visit however -...
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- Jun 10
- 1 min
New Singapore flights from Gatwick
Gatwick gets a new link with Singapore this weekend. Singapore Airlines starts operating non stop, five times a week to Changi Airport,...
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- Apr 15
- 1 min
Peru: new river cruises planned
Luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent is to launch riverboat cruises in Peru next year. The vessel, described as a “floating boutique...
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- Apr 9
- 1 min
Gatwick has three new Asian links
New flights to Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have taken off at Gatwick. The countries' national airlines have launched...
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- Mar 5
- 1 min
Amalfi coast - new link planned
EasyJet is to launch sumer flights between Gatwick and Salerno, jumpng off point for Itall's specatcular Amalfi coast. With departures...
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- Feb 22
- 1 min
New Guernsey flights
Aurigny is scheduled to start flying between London City Airport and its Guernsey home base on 31 March. The airline will operate return...
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- Feb 1
- 1 min
Gatwick: car charge centre launched
Gatwick has become to first UK airport to open a dedicated electric vehicle chargimg forecourt. With 30 chargers - and available round...
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- Jan 19
- 1 min
Venice day fee now payable online
Day trippers to Venice can pay the €5 charge in advance online – but travellers staying in the city and paying the tourist tax should go...
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- Jan 17
- 1 min
Corsica: hiking holidays launched
Self guided hiking holidays have been launched by Corsican Places – including itineraries on the rugged GR20 route, one of Europe’s...
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- Jan 15
- 1 min
Powder snow hits the French Alps
Images of Méribel. For those of you whose knees will stand it, there's new snow again in the French Alps. Méribel - in the vast Trois...
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- Jan 12
- 1 min
Music & Time: c18th Chinese clocks on show
Ornate and intricate clocks from Beijing’s Forbidden City are set to go on show at London’s Science Museum from 1 February. Collected by...
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- Jan 10
- 1 min
New hotel for Manchester
Manchester is to get a new hotel The four star Malmaison is set to open on 1 February close to Deansgate, the mile long thoroughfare that...
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- Jan 10
- 1 min
Nile launch for ultra luxury cruise boat
Upmarket tour operator Abercrombie & Kent is to launch what it claims will be the “finest new craft on the Nile”. The boutique boat,...
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- Jan 9
- 1 min
Learn French and Ski
A package combining French tuition with a ski snowboard lift pass is on offer from the Alpine French School in Morzine. The resort is a...
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- Mar 20, 2023
- 2 min
English churches - always worth a pause
When the comic film star WC Fields, a lifelong atheist, was in hospital, close to the end of his life, the story goes that a visiting...
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- Apr 28, 2022
- 2 min
Food guide ratings -a question of class
The reincarnated Good Food Guide has revamped the ratings awarded to restsurants by its subscribers. Gone is the old one to 10 scale, in...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
Boutique hotel opens in Cape township
A smart place to stay has opened in the heart of Cape Town's Khayelitsha, the first upmarket hotel in the sprawling township near the...
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- Mar 27, 2022
- 1 min
Alpine hiking - new trail
A new long distance walking trail across Switzerland's Bern Canton was scheduled to open this spring. The 305km long Via Berna will...
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- Jan 28, 2022
- 2 min
Women only tours launched
A range of women only holidays has been launched by Trafalgar Tours in a move likely to appeal to single mature travellers. Destinations...
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