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Planning on a car rental this summer holiday season, and really hoping for a hassle-free experience, with a smooth pick up procedure and no unexpected extra costs? Read these few pieces of advice. Here we try to make it easier for you to avoid unnecessary supplementary costs by listing just a few things to consider before you click 'the submit button' of your car hire booking.

Book Earlier at More Advantageous Rates

Moreover, if you postpone booking your holiday car hire, the availability of cars

A quick flight from London will take you a city that really knows how to live. Named as one of Lonely Planet’s top 10 travel destinations for 2016 - allow me to share a few reasons why Manchester’s unquestionably one of the topnotch places to visit in the world.

Arts and Culture


The previous year has witnessed the opening of the £25 m HOME arts centre in First Street and the long-awaited reopening of the Whitworth Art Gallery after a £15 m renovation. There’s no doubt that the future for the city’

Our “ultimate European road trip” started in Stuttgart, Germany after we picked up our brand-new Porsche Macan S from the factory, now heads back north to Stuttgart as we conclude our extended vacation.  Our car, named Max, will be prepped for his long boat ride home where he trades in his lederhosen for a surfboard rack.

Our adventure continues as we explore this beautiful and historic lakeside city.

Mother Nature Deflated Our Zeppelin Adventure

All the planning in the world is no match for Mot

Travelling to the north of Thailand is a trip that has been gaining popularity in recent times. A Bangkok and Chiang Mai trip combo is an alternative to the coastal itineraries of Thailand, offering a perfect combination of bustling city life and a tranquil natural experience.

Bustling Bangkok

The bustling metropolis of Bangkok is the best place to familiarise yourself with Thailand before heading off to more exotic locations. Bangkok has many incredible shopping options to offer visitors, from

by Cristóbal Ramírez


What comes to mind when you think Düsseldorf? Commerce, industry, and trade fairs, most likely. Hardly a place you’d think of as a holiday hot spot.

But as with most other large European cities, there’s another side that not only makes this powerhouse in Germany‘s west, capital of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, well worth a holiday stop but which some might find downright surprising. For one thing, it seems the locals fancy themselves just a bit Latin. 

For starters, he

With nearly 12,500 miles (20,000 kilometres) of coastline, the United States lined on three sides with some stupendous strands indeed.  Here are some of my top picks within easy striking distance of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City – many of which are delicious well into September (and depending on the geography, even well beyond). 

Boston

Starting about an hour’s drive south of the city, Cape Cod curves out into the Atlantic Oceanwith wonderful options such as Barnstabl

By the time James Cook reached the Queensland coast, he was rapidly running out of crew members to name features after. He’d already got down to the cabin boy, who gave his name to the Carlo Sandblow. So, when he reached what he thought was a great sandy peninsula, he called it, with a lamentable lack of imagination, the Great Sandy Peninsula. Subsequent explorers found it was actually an island, so they renamed it the Great Sandy Island.

At about 75 miles long, Fraser Island, as it’s known toda

Tramping around a damp rainforest in the dark with big rubber boots and headlamps is not the usual picture of a university spring break vacation. But for a group of first year Ph.D. students studying herpetology at Harvard University, it was perfect.

In April 2016, on the students’ spring break, they visited Costa Rica with Harvard University professor Jonathan Losos – Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and the Curator in Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology – who has l

I have such fabulous memories of Canada’s second largest city, on its island in Quebec’s St. Lawrence River. It was one of my very first trips out of the United States, and it felt exotic yet familiar. A great family destination, for sure. And indeed, it’s fair to say Montreal is in a league of its own: Bilingual yet multicultural; mixing the centuries-old colonial with the up-to-the-minute cutting edge; almost as active underground as above; and a city of laid-back villages yet also a throbbin

Right in the center of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, 394 kilometers from Salvador, the Chapada (plateau) Diamantina spreads across an area of 38,000 sq. km, including the 152,000 hectares forming this national park, established in 1985. In the Serra do Sincorá (a mountain range) and its surroundings, including the municipalities of Lencóis, Palmeiras, Andaraí and Mucugê, you can find a great number of paths, caves, waterfalls, natural swimming holes and incredible gorges, that’s why the

Damage from spring 2016 floods forced the closing of the Greenbrier Resort, a West Virginia classic that has hosted boldface names since the early 1800s. On July 12 it reopened, so it's worth noting that this place is not just about the presidents who've stayed there or the golf or other sports; it's also home to what was one of the greatest secrets of the Cold War.

If the Soviet Union had attacked Washington, D.C., any time between 1962 and 1992 – if the Cold War had turned into a hot war –

by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

As the authors of It Happened in Miami, our adventures in interviewing took us all over the area. We thought we had seen it all. However, we never got around to experience Metropolitan by COMO and its Traymore restaurant, a sweet and serene spot close by the just above the historic Art Deco District almost tucked away off Collins Avenue on 24th street.

Now we had the experience. We were able to tour briefly the splendid property and dine unhurriedly at its

Located in one of the top tourist spots in the southern part of the region, Vanilla Garden Tenerife is a hotel that is built with traditional architecture. This is in imitation of the typical building style of the Canary Islands homes consisting of gabled roofs and wooden balconies. The Vanilla Garden includes a landscaped courtyard with balconies facing the garden which gives tourists the feeling of being in a canary village.

 

Vanilla Garden Tenerife is a Special Tourist Destination

The common a

photo: PlusONE


This month of July has not been an easy one in the world, and especially in the world of tourism.  Until recently, tourism oriented nations experienced one or another form of crisis on a tri or bi-monthly or monthly basis.  During the last few weeks, the crise du mois seems to have become the crise de la semaine (crisis of the week).

 
During the last few weeks, the Middle East, especially Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and the Asian sub-continent have witnessed an upsurge of violence.

A flight to Amsterdam from the UK will take you to a city which is recognised among Europe’s most admired city break destinations. One of the greatest small cities in the world, the capital of the Netherlands is waiting for tourists like you with her arms wide open only to embrace you all over.

Well, I would consider Mariya Marh (who else but me) a fortunate bloke who was able to manage somehow the best deal on cheap flights to Amsterdam he’s been after. If I were to tell you that I bagged the mo

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If you are a teacher or parent chaperone involved in taking children on field trips of any sort, then this article might be an interesting and helpful one for you to read. If you have been entrusted with the task of taking children on educational trips and making them fun for them at the same time, then you have been bestowed with a rather tedious task. Organizing an educational trip that will be

          photo: Giancarlo Liguori 


Today on Bastille Day, one of France’s most important national observances, let me take you to the chunk of real estate where it all began. On the Right Bank of the Seine several blocks away from the Place des Vosges, the Bastille neighborhood has for a number of years now a favorite destination for Parisians (and increasingly for visitors as well) for various reasons.

Named for the infamous medieval prison whose storming on this date in 1789 was a key mome

Costa Rica is always great for family vacations, with its exotic wildlife, amazing nature, thrilling adventure tours, and of course, being the safest place to travel in 2016.

Families who travel to Costa Rica know that the charming Central American country is a fun, easy and safe family vacation destination. Costa Rica is not only a most recommended travel hotspot in the world; it also tops the list of safe places to travel in 2016.

Costa Rica is always a great place for families to travel with ki

                    photo | Julian Rotela Rosow 

by Laura Tirado

Perhaps one of the things that most surprised me about the Galapagos is the nonchalance with which the local species still receive human visitors. To this day, the great majority of these islands is unpopulated, and in this largely pristine territory it’s mostly iguanas and sea lions who are your hosts on these shore excursions in the footsteps of Charles Darwin.

In fact, a sea lion was precisely the first creature I encountered