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Tall Stories: The Burj Khalifa Tower

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest structure ever built, and provides a fitting centrepiece to the Emirate with the largest population of the seven regions making up the United Arab Emirates. Completed in October 2009, the Burj Khalifa stands a towering 828 metres tall, and broke many more records besides being the tallest structure. [...]

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New Zealand: Land of a Thousand Thrills

While the islands of New Zealand might have shot to prominence during the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, its tourism industry has always been well supported by the sterling reputation that the country maintains for its adventure sports scene. If you hanker for a life-experience that will open your eyes and quicken [...]

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Northern Territory: Great Outback Adventures

While Australia has some incredibly refined and picturesque cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and many others, if you yearn for a taste of adventure, then heading north might be just the compass direction for you. Australia’s Northern Territory presents the opportunity for a unique blend of stunningly beautiful scenery to explore and a whole host [...]

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The Statue of Liberty (Made in France)

One of the most recognisable icons in the world, New York’s Statue of Liberty stands 46 metres tall on Liberty Island, at the entrance to New York Harbour. This enduring symbol of American freedom and independence was actually a gift from France, built in part by the designer of the Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel. Image [...]

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Hot Holidays vs. Cold Holidays

The cold autumnal weather has sparked an age old debate in the dealchecker office – where should you holiday in the winter? Embrace the cold with a winter holiday in an even colder country covered in snow, or jet well away from the cold white stuff to hit the beach. We’ve outlined the case for [...]

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New Hotel Descriptions

We’ve been working on a heap of new content updates for dealchecker and most recently have been trialling new hotel descriptions of our own. Our editorial team have created original descriptions for the following hotels in Amsterdam so that we can test how much more useful they are:

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Travel Trivia – A Bit Of Friday Fun

Here at dealchecker.co.uk we spend most of our time working our socks off trying to find great travel deals for our consumers so from time to time we need a bit of a break. That’s why we now have Braindash Fridays. Every member of the team is encouraged to give their brain a bit of [...]

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This week in dealchecker land

The dealchecker gang giving their thoughts on the week gone by. Thanks for all your hard work this week guys – new flights deals gone live+ super cool segmentation stuff. We’d also like to welcome Beach Holiday Deals (http://beachholidaydeals.co.uk/) to the dealchecker family.

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Buy me: cool Christmas gifts for travellers

Eek it’s only 15 days until Christmas! With evenings and weekends taken up with parties, tree decorating and sourcing an organic turkey, that leaves about four hours to do your Christmas shopping.

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Pilots complain: new jets keep us awake

Anyone who received this week’s Real Deals will have heard this one but it’s quite funny: It seems that the newest jumbo jets are so quiet that pilots can’t get any sleep! Apparently pilots usually catch 40 winks lulled to sleep by the whir of the engines, but the new A380 super jumbo jets are [...]

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