Recent Posts Tagged With 'travel'

• The first drive-by of the year!

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 03:44 in travel, bookings

  Not so long ago, drive-by guests made up a substantial proportion of our bookings but with the combination of a rapid rise in the profile of online reservation systems and mobile internet the drive-by is very much a dying breed. Over time this trend ...

• The expenses of being a “noshow”

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 03:36 in travel, business, bookings, cheaper travel

  In these days when virtually everyone books their accommodation online it’s particularly important to read the small-print regarding cancelling your trip or simply not turning up at all at your accommodation. If you simply don’t turn up a...

• Assumptions that people make which aren’t quite right for their holiday accommodation

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 09:03 in travel, bookings, holiday planning

  When they’re booking a place for their holidays people often make assumptions about what that place will be like not so much from the description (which few seem to read) but rather from the place that they’re booking it through. For inst...

• Gee what a tiring trip…

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 03:33 in travel, family

  By the time you read this, we should be well on the way to our place in France (scheduled posts are wonderful!) and pretty much totally exhausted. The plan is that on Saturday morning we’ll have gone from Belfast to Rosslare to catch the LD Lin...

• Personalised tourism around the world… for free!

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 03:25 in travel, society

  Wouldn’t you like to have a personalised tour of the holiday destination that you’re going to rather than being herded around by some impersonal tour? I’m sure that many people would but figure that it’s bound to be too expens...

• Why not try a vacation rental instead of a hotel for your next holiday?

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 03:40 in travel

  Sometimes it seems like the whole world just consider hotels when they start thinking about where to stay on their vacation. If you’re one of those then you’re missing out on some great experiences. For one thing, the majority of hotels a...

• What about a holiday in South Africa?

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 07:15 in travel

  South Africa has been out of the question as a vacation destination for a long time but has quietly been getting promoted as a destination for a while now so there’s quite a lot of moderately underused tourist infrastructure. The country itself...

• When the most expensive travel option is the cheapest…

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 04:31 in travel

  Whilst it might seem obvious that the most expensive ferry is definitely the dearest option, in our case it turns out that the most expensive ferry route forms part of the cheapest and quickest route for us. Ordinarily we’d have driven from her...