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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This is the story of what happens to your travel plans as you grow older. You might think it’s all about not being able to keep up with the kids partying all night any more. Or that it’s about SAGA holidays, day trips to the far off lands of the Garden Centre, or maybe a [...]
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If you’ve always been a little curious about Budapest – a city so cool that it divides itself into two parts (Buda and Pest, since you’re asking) – then you’ll probably want to take a little trip over to this rather fabulous deal. Now, I have been known to play rather fast and loose with [...]
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Destinations
Tags: Budapest, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, iceland, India, Lebanon, Seoul, Sri Lanka, travel costs, Travel Money, Vietnam
September 25, 2012
Calm down, this is no dodgy get-rich-quick scheme. But enter our competition to win £1000 and see how far you can make the money stretch if you know the right places to go! Croatia: £1,000 gets you… 9,247 Croatian Kuna Hvar Island, Croatia – © Christian Wilkinson You can almost multiply your money by 10 [...]
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Destinations
Tags: Brazil, Budapest, cancun, hungary, latvia, Marmaris, Mexico, Riga, rio de janeiro, Turkey
May 22, 2012
British tourists holidaying abroad this year could find their money going a lot further than it did last year, all thanks to the strength of the British pound compared to other currencies. We’ve taken a look at five of the top destinations this summer where your money will stretch further: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Image [...]
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I’ve been itching to get away to beautiful Budapest since my good friend Katie described it like this in an email: “Budapest, what can I say? The people are all gorgeous, the buildings full of amazing romantic character, the alcohol dangerously cheap, the evenings humid and streets noisy. It’s fascinating, hedonistic and utterly unique.” I’ve [...]
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Reports in the news this morning claim that the snow, ice and Baltic winds that we have experienced for what feels like forever… are over. Yes, the weatherman says it’s going to get warmer and as we have passed winter’s shortest day, which means that things are only going to get brighter. However I’m not [...]
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