Holidaymakers could pay just £99 per person and win a seven night trip to Antigua – or two nights in Dublin – depending on what location they are drawn in Wowcher’s mystery getaway offer. For under £100 customers are able to get a holiday abroad, they just don’t know where and thanks to the low … Read more
The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week issues tackled include claiming money back from Cheapcost Holidays and booking summer getaways. Q. Will a summer holiday in the Med be possible? I am at my wits’ end. James Stirling, Manchester. Hotspot: Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera is a highlight of … Read more
Scientists have urged Britons not to get their hopes up about holidaying on the continent this summer, amid warnings of a third wave of Covid picking up pace across Europe. ‘Professor Lockdown‘ Neil Ferguson today called for borders to stay shut over summer until every adult has had a vaccine and told Brits to prepare … Read more
Lonely Planet travel guides often ‘downplay’ the harassment that women travellers suffer from men, a new research paper argues. A paper by Middlesex University states: ‘Lonely Planet often downplays harassment and the idea that it is not worth getting angry about presents itself again and again in the entries.’ Researchers studied the free online version … Read more
Watch out for the Global Health Insurance Card scam: Travellers warned about unofficial websites charging for free EHIC replacement Survey suggests many think they have to pay for a Global Health Insurance Card This is despite it being free like the EHIC Unofficial websites are charging consumers around £29 per application By Grace Gausden For … Read more
Jewel-hued waters, a white-sand beach, palm trees, rose petals strewn across my enormous bed – I started last year on a high at the top-rated Nanuku Auberge Resort in Fiji. But I quickly realised that, essentially, I had booked into a honeymoon destination – and I was alone. However, staying on my own in a … Read more
Four passengers arriving in the UK have been fined £10,000 each for failing to tell authorities that they came from a ‘red-list’ country. The passengers landed at Birmingham Airport where they ‘attempted to hide their routes’, West Midlands Police revealed. Police have not said where the four people arrived from, but they were ‘identified and received … Read more
Four travellers are fined £10,000 each after failing to declare they had arrived in the UK from ‘red-list’ country so they could avoid £1,750 hotel quarantine Passengers ‘attempted to hide their routes’ when landed at Birmingham Airport Not clear where they arrived from, but they ‘received £10,000 fines as a result’ Arrivals from 33 … Read more
Grab your single tickets to ride: The brilliant UK mini-breaks that put the interests and needs of solo travellers first (and there’s no sharing rooms with strangers!) One solos holiday takes in the incredible 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line, Scotland Cornwall is set to be popular again this summer – join in the … Read more
A paramedic couple returning to the UK with their five-week-old daughter after four years living in Abu Dhabi have said travellers should not be used as ‘guinea pigs’. From Monday, UK nationals or residents returning to England from 33 countries will be required to spend 10 days in Government-designated quarantine hotel at a cost of … Read more