UK Ferry Tickets

I spent the last bank holiday weekend lying on the beach in glorious sunshine, before enjoying a relaxing evening in our accommodation, which was clean, modern and great value-for-money. Nothing unusual there – until I tell you that it was in England, just outside Bournemouth. Many readers complain to me that UK holidays are often [...]

How much cash do you spend while you’re on holiday? On average a family gets through just over £800, while many fork out more than £1,000, according to a new survey. As the average price of an overseas holiday for a family of four is around £2,000 (bear in mind that many children travel free), [...]

The smell of cut grass or chocolate may transport you back to your childhood, but will a nice smell in a hotel make you return? Hotels in Australia are now pumping fragrances into meeting rooms, bedrooms and lobbies in the hope of winning over customers and distinguishing their brands from competitors. The International Hotels Group [...]

I used to love the airline, Pan Am. Check-in staff would, without hesitation, offer journalists upgrades on flights across the Atlantic. We weren’t just pushed up into business either, but often allowed to sit in plush first class chairs. In those days, the big leather seats didn’t convert into beds, but you did have what [...]

UK travellers are so fed up with long queues and security checks that they are deserting Heathrow and Gatwick in favour of regional airports. The Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed that only 43 per cent of UK passengers used the main airports last year, compared with 57 per cent five years ago. Of course, five [...]

British Airways picked up an award it could really have done without – last year it had the worst record for mishandling passengers’ bags of any of the 24 carriers which are members of the Association of European Airlines. BA mishandled 23 bags per 1,000 customers during the year. At least the airline had the [...]

If you’ve had a fabulous summer holiday and are now having to tighten your belt, you may be interested in a website that a friend of mine alerted me to this week. www.sleepinginairports.net is a site dedicated to travellers on a budget and advises on the best airports around the world to get a decent [...]

At a time when hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are allowed to go about their business untroubled by the rule of law, the spin-doctors at number 10 have come up with an extraordinary plan to appease an outraged public. Why not hammer ordinary, law-abiding citizens with a huge increase in the cost of buying [...]

A sure-fire way to give a person a lifelong dislike of something is to force it on them from an early age. With me, it was religion. I went to a school where we were obliged to attend a service in a Cathedral six times a week. I’ve hardly set foot in such a building [...]

So, you’re strolling down the high street, doing a bit of window shopping, and you decide to pop into your local travel agent – for a bottle of suncream or a new pair of designer jeans. It doesn’t seem very likely does it? That’s the latest idea to be doing the rounds and Thomson is [...]