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Pick of the Real Deals: Prague

We dealcheckers have a heartening message to impart: Winter will not last forever.  That’s right; soon spring will have sprung, and how better to celebrate sensation returning to our fingers than a two-night Prague escape?! One of our clever deal hunters stumbled across this bargain from lowcostholidays.com, and by golly, we think it’s a good’un! Stay [...]

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9 New Destinations for the New Year

The start of a new year always has us planning and scheming for new trips and new places to visit. We took a quick poll of the office to see which new locations are on the agenda for the dealcheckers in 2012. Italy – We’re just about going to let Andy get away with his [...]

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Pick of the Real Deals: Hotels From Just £15pp!

For the bargain hunters among us January is the promised month. The high street is awash with neon SALE signs, you can’t move for half price offers and travel land is no exception: There are so many sales on this week that choosing a pick of the Real Deals is even harder than usual. So [...]

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Foods Worth Travelling Across the World For

Dishes that inspire people to travel right to the source.

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Treats for Travel Tips: New York

New York, New York! What is it about this city which means its name must always be repeated? If you’ve got an answer, or other useful travel tips for the city that never sleeps, why not send them to dealchecker? You could win a delicious New York cheesecake for your efforts!

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Top X Factor Acts to Defy the Public Vote

The acts who couldn’t win the competition but still went on to win fame and fortune.

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Hotel Review: White House Brighton

Brighton is one of my favourite cities in the UK, it really does have it all – the beach, the bars, the restaurants and the nightlife to match. There is one other asset in plentiful supply ‘boutique hotels’ and I must admit to being a bit of an addict. I have stayed in many of [...]

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Treats for Travel Tips: Sharm el Sheikh

Whilst the dealchecker experts certainly know their stuff when it comes to great value travel, even they can’t know everything. Which is why we’re launching this appeal asking our readers to help us out, simply by sharing your very best travel tips. For the next week we’ll be focussed on one winter sun hotspot: Sharm [...]

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dealchecker Holidays: Sam in Morocco

Sam, who you know as the girl that helps us find all those lovely Real Deals you get each week, just got back from a holiday in Morocco that made us green at the gills. So I just had to sit her down and hear all about it! It all started with finding cheap flights [...]

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Pick of the Real Deals: Iconic Cruise with Cunard

Every week we have our now-traditional debate about our favourites among the Real Deals, and this week, I shouted the loudest! I’ve got a real hankering for taking a cruise, and what better way to do so than on a transatlantic crossing – probably the most iconic cruise route you could take. But this isn’t [...]

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Treats for Travel Tips: Ibiza

Phew! Thanks for the brilliant response to our appeal for Florida travel tips – we’re sorting through your amazing advice right now. In the mean time let’s turn our attention to the white island: Ibiza, Spain. Whilst Ibiza became world-famous for it’s fabulous parties, there’s far more to to this Mediterranean island than superstar DJs, [...]

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Pick of the Real Deals: Beautiful Boutiques

We work so hard finding top offers for our Real Deals newsletter, and make sure all of them offer incredible savings – but we can’t help but have favourites, and this week I have 100% fallen in love with the Three Sisters Hotel in Tallinn. It’s one of the boutique hotels on offer with Qwerty [...]

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Treats for Travel Tips!

That’s right dealcheckers! We want your travel knowledge. You see, we pride ourselves on knowing a lot about a lot of places – but even we can’t cover every corner of the globe – There’s not many of us, and we’ve got our work cut out just finding all those incredible travel deals each week! [...]

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Pick of the Real Deals: Egyptian Extravaganza

We’re passionate about our deals and every week we hand pick 20 to send you. Now, we love them all but we do also have our favourites, and this week my pick is the 14-night Nile Cruise and Luxor stay. This holiday packs a mighty punch kicking off with a seven-night cruise seeing all the [...]

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Pick of the Real Deals – Barbados Bargain

Now obviously we think all our top deals are just that – otherwise we wouldn’t waste our time putting them in our Real Deals newsletter, would we?! But that’s not to say we don’t have favourites. This week it’s this our seven-night secluded Barbados beach offer that’s caught my eye. Not to rub it in, [...]

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Anna’s Aussie Adventure Part II: East Coast

In Part I we heard all about Anna, our Online Marketing Manager’s trip to the west coast of Australia, and from there she headed east, which is where we’ll pick up the tale. First stop was Noosa, on the outskirts of Brisbane. Noosa National Park was the destination and Anna went to the headland section [...]

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Help! Sunburn!

We’ve all been there, in the quest for that all-important holiday tan we get a little, er, over exuberant on the first day of our holiday and end up with sunburn. Of course we know that we could have prevented it, but that doesn’t really help now, when our face/arms/feet/everything is red and sore and [...]

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dealchecker’s Top Ten Sun Safety Tips

Here are our top tips for avoiding looking like a lobster next time you go out in the sun. 1. Everybody use suncream. Yes it’s an obvious one, and we know it’s a hassle to remember to use it, but on the other hand it really does work. Duh. Apply a proper coat 30 minutes [...]

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Stowaway in Cornwall

With the Easter holidays and the Royal Wedding looming, people are looking to get away (or hide away) from the crowds and spend some time with their families. To make the best of the weather, why not head to Cornwall? Sure, it can be busy there and without a motorway in sight past Exeter you’ll [...]

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It’s Party Time!

Today is a very exciting day in the dealchecker office – This afternoon we have the dealchecker Christmas party! Anticipation is mounting as to what is in store as our notoriously fun directors have planned an afternoon of surprises. Last year saw us take on an ‘Apprentice’-style treasure hunt in teams across London that culminated [...]

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