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Swap Luggage Fees for Amazing Experiences

It’s a familiar story – you spy great prices on a city break with a low cost airline and are faced with the luggage dilemma. To add or not to add? If you choose to fork out around £40 for luggage, your cash reserves for enjoying yourself whilst you’re away will be depleted, but you [...]

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Pick of the Real Deals: Dubai by Sea

Mind if I state the obvious for a moment? Dubai is quite an expensive place to visit. This Middle Eastern super city is all about wealth: its top attractions include gold souks, marble-lined shopping centres, hotels dripping in diamonds and a certain kilometre high building built on a budget which would bankrupt, well, almost anyone [...]

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Best Value Art Hotels in Europe

The announcement of the shortlist for the Turner Prize has had us come over all creative. Obviously you have to visit the Tate Britain in London to take in the works of the Turner Exhibition, but where else should art aficionados head? And crucially how can you get an inspiring art hotel on the cheap? [...]

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Upcoming Sporting Events

So that’s it. The flame has gone out and London has returned to normal. If Olympic withdrawals are hitting you as hard as they are us here at the dealchecker office then why not start planning your next big sporting adventure? Many of us Brits, having enjoyed a slice of live sporting actions, are keen [...]

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Europe’s Top 10 Sporting Meccas

London and the Olympic Stadium are about to grab the world’s attention, but how about visiting some of the other amazing sporting meccas around Europe? One thing’s for sure, when you get tickets to an event at one of these amazing sports arenas, you know you’ll see world class sport and are guaranteed to have [...]

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Top 5 Spanish City Break Destinations

As many Brits flock to Spain this summer for their usual serving of sun, sea and sand, we take a look at our top five Spanish city break destinations to show you how much more Spain has to offer, aside from the good weather: Barcelona Image by Moyan Brenn One of the most famous cities [...]

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Pick Of The Real Deals: Pampering In Barcelona

Here at dealchecker, we’re always up for anything that promises a bit of pampering! Which is why when we saw this deal from the La Mola Hotel, we had to make it our Pick of The Real Deals this week! Two nights in Barcelona for only £99 per person sound like a steal to us – [...]

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The Olympic Legacy

In the build-up to the Olympics right here in London there have already been squabbles between football clubs to see who will get to use the Olympic Stadium after the Games are over, with Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham and Lleyton Orient all in the mix. But this is a far cry from some of the [...]

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Top 5 Christmas Markets

There’s a nip in the air and a scent of cinnamon blows in the breeze, and even the most hardened Christmas grinches feel their heart melt a little. The first smell of Christmas! Shame it was only someone’s snowflake cup-clad coffee. But it doesn’t have to be that way – all across Europe giant Christmas [...]

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Hot Child In The City

…To quote an epic 70′s classic! Sometimes cities in the summer are just too much. Hot, sticky, busy, messy; the urban vacation is a veritable minefield of sweat, violent air-con and furious tourists, but apparently we’re gluttons for punishment because we just keep on trudging back into the concrete wilderness. Dealchecker know you’re not going [...]

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Four Richer, Four Poorer

Holidays to New York, the Maldives, Ibiza and Barbados feature regularly on glamorous holiday wish lists – But they’re stuck on that wish list for a reason – they don’t come cheap! Panic not, because here we’ve searched high and low for the poorer cousins of the rich man’s holidays. You can thank us when [...]

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Oscar Fever: destinations on film

I will happily admit to a minor obsession with visiting film locations – particularly the exotic beach ones. This year location was a central character in many of the Oscar-winning films so here is a round-up of the hottest destinations for your itinerary.

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