Everybody gets excited at the prospect of a week on the beach, but sometimes that enthusiasm gets in the way of proper planning. Remember, there’s nothing worse than book-ending a holiday with a nightmare journey so make sure you follow our handy hints to ensure your time at the airport runs as smoothly as possible… Be aware of packing restrictions… read more »

Sailing holidays are a wonderful way for holidaymakers of all ages and skill levels to build confidence in and on the water, as well as enjoying time building a new skill. Susie McKay is the Waterfront Manager at Mark Warner’s Lakitira resort in Kos, Greece and heads up the sailing courses there. Here she shares her ten top tips for… read more »

Travelling to foreign countries doesn’t always require a suitcase. If you’re smart with your packing you can get away with just hand luggage, which is fantastic as you’ll avoid those long waits at the baggage reclaim and those lofty hold baggage charges that certain airlines sting you with. Here is everything you’ll need for a weekend away in one of… read more »

So popular is the Christmas and New Year period for marriage proposals that January can be a very hectic month to start planning a hen party; I should know, I proposed to my lady on Christmas Eve! Now that you’re getting married to the man of your dreams there is just the small matter of the hen do, a British… read more »

There is one aspect of a holiday, stag weekend, hen party or business trip that you probably don’t like, and that is most likely to be the time spent at the airport! When you reach check in you’ll either be acting like the giddy kids in front of you, full of uncontainable excitement at the thought of heading off to… read more »

Don’t deny it, while you were on the bus this morning you found yourself dreaming of summer sunshine. There you were on a golden sandy beach, kicking back on a sun lounger, the heat beating down, an umbrella in your cocktail and just a good book for company. Then the bell rang, and by the time you’d snapped out of… read more »

Skiing is expensive. It costs to get there, to stay there, to rent the gear, to get up the mountain, to come down again, to fix things if you don’t do it in one piece, to eat, to drink; quite frankly, it costs a fair bit of cash to do pretty much anything when you’re halfway up a mountain. Of… read more »

Christmas is fast approaching, and for those who delayed their holidays for one reason or the other (perhaps you hung around for the Jubilee, Olympics or the Paralympics?) the chilly British winter can be especially gloomy. Online travel retailer Holiday Hypermarket has put together a caption competition that showcases some of the best winter holidays to book this year, but… read more »

Some call it the "peer to peer marketplace", others prefer the rather neat phrase "collaborative consumption". However you define it, it's slowly but surely reinventing the way we live today. One of the best known is Airbnb and its rivals, which let you rent out rooms in your home to travellers, cutting hotels out of the equation. And then there's… read more »

For every 1000 passengers that travel by air, about nine pieces of luggage are lost[i]. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you’re one of those unlucky nine passengers then you feel like your holiday is pretty much ruined. What follows next is a series of less-than-polite phone calls to the airline and you also have the honour of… read more »