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January 10, 2012 Comments OffEvery year, the National Geographic Traveler magazine compiles its pick of the top 20 travel destinations for the coming year.
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 [...]
Aside from being famed for its amazing dive spots, Sharm El Sheikh is a paradise for shoppers, with the traditional bazaars being the heart of the action. New shopping centres are springing up everywhere too, like the growing number in the Naama Bay area, but for a real taste of the markets you have to [...]
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 [...]
Well as usual we had a hard task to pick out a favourite deal from the 20 amazing offers we found this week, but the value you get on this seven-night break to The Gambia – which we found with The Gambia Experience – has got me tempted to book. With this late availability deal [...]
It’s that time of year when we’re all after a little winter sun, and holidays in Sharm El Sheikh are ever-popular. The combination of the hot sun, lovely beaches, wonderful diving and plenty of cheap deals on offer means us Brits can’t get enough of the place. Since most Sharm el Sheikh hotels are set [...]
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 [...]
Anyone who has read any of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith will know that feeling, that unmistakable urge to visit Botswana, the country that the main protagonist, Mma Ramotswe is so proud of. In this series, the brave and thoughtful female detective (and of course her assistant) solve mysteries, [...]
It seems like every other day that facebook, or one of its applications, asks us a stupid question, like “Want to see who looks at your profile?” or “How many of these iconic 80s films have you seen?” But this quiz caught our eye, probably because it’s about a subject close to our hearts, the [...]
Birthdays, Christmas, a cup of tea in the morning, a Full English after a heavy night – we all have rituals that we adhere to religiously. But we’ve come across some traditions are even odder than waiting for a fat bearded man to deliver wrapped gifts down your chimney while you wait next to an indoor [...]
When it comes to winter sun holidays we can’t help but notice its the deals to Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt that grab our reader’s attention week after week. Whilst Sharm el Sheikh has a lot going for it – warm weather, stunning coral reefs and endless sandy beaches to name but a few, Africa [...]
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November 4, 2010 0Long queues, wailing kids, hawking street pedlars and overpriced tickets – these are the realities that await the eager but naive traveller sucked into an overrated, anticlimactic tourist trap. The problem with these great attractions is that every single inhabitant of the planet now wants to see them! So why not avoid the crowds with [...]
Lets face it, given the choice we’d all love to be travelling the world; map in hand, footloose and carefree. But without fail, the realities of life always seem to get in the way, so we inevitably look to other means to get our travelling kicks! The travel genre is a popular one, but there [...]
Admittedly, there are few of us who would turn down a luxurious sojourn filled with swanky hotel suites, glamorous restaurants and extravagant shopping sprees – but here at dealchecker we like to find out what lies beneath the sometimes glossy veneer of the places we visit! Visiting the indigenous peoples of a country can be [...]
We all have things we can’t do without on holiday, a hairdryer, an MP3 player, a rubber duck alarm clock (don’t judge me), but any coffee addict knows that landing in a city that can’t make a good cup of coffee can spell disaster. So here is a round-the-world itinerary that will let you sip [...]
I’ve always wanted to go on a safari, but have never been able to get the cash together for a holiday in Africa. So I was quite excited when I read that Europe’s first safari lodge was opening in…Kent.
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