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I’m sure you all remember what today is.
No?
It’s the first day of the great M25 tour offering.
Lucky day trippers who were picked up from Worthing and Brighton have been entertained on the coach trip organised by Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company. And what delights will they have seen?
Hands up if you use your smart phone when overseas? That’s most of us then, but beware: keeping in touch with family, friends and colleagues back home can cost thousands of pounds….
here wasn’t a lot in the budget about travelling or holidays. More was left unsaid. For example there was absolutely nothing about any postponement or cancellation of the increase in APD that is due to come into effect in April.
Salem is famous for its witch trials of 1692 but there’s more to this Massachusetts town than witchcraft, writes Kaye Holland
Travelling with children can be trying to say the least. Enter Travel Tots UK – a new travel service aimed at making travelling and holidaying with a baby that bit easier.
I’ve just booked a return trip to California. The cost? £162. Yes, I kid you not, that is the price of an airline ticket on British Airways. Except that it’s not. The ticket might be that price but all the other extras and taxes and surcharges bring it up to £541.89.
Here at CD-Traveller towers, we suspect that there are two types of people reading this website. There are those who will look back on Easter and say “that was an eggscellent trip” and there are those who will have laid in bed worrying about the recession. If you fall into the second category, then we have some good news for you! There are plenty of places you can visit this Easter, that don’t require you to remortgage the house
Yesterday – being Mother’s Day and all – I took the old dear to the cinema to see The Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Loosely adapted from Deborah Moggach’s novel, These Foolish Things, John Madden’s film sees a group of pensioners (including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson) move to India for a magnitude of reasons
Dr. Jill Nash makes for Malta and Gozo and finds them to be an excellent destination for a family holiday
Now that Mother’s Day is (almost) out of the way, it’s time to turn our attention to Easter – always an eggscellent time to travel!
With a sunny climate, a short flight from the UK, wonderful food and affordable accommodation, Malta & Gozo make excellent destinations for a family holiday, says Dr. Jill Nash
Whether you’re new to cruising and need help planning your first voyage or are a seasoned cruiser searching for inspiration for your next holiday at sea, don’t miss The Cruise Show at London’s Olympia next weekend
Ewe celebrating St Patrick’s Day? Even a flock of sheep in Scotland wants to be ‘seen in green’ this weekend!
Dublin will be going green on St Patrick’s Day. Expect parades, parties and lots of fun , writes Megan Gates
Staff on the Heathrow Express are arguably the first lot of Londoners that visitors due to arrive for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games, will see. Which is why there has been such a commotion about the service’s new uniform – due to be introduced in July.
“Why go all the way to Bondi when you can come to Bridlington?” remarks Rupert Grint. The Harry Potter star features – alongside Stephen Fry and Downtown Abbey’s Michelle Dockery – in the new £4million government backed ‘Holidays at Home’ scheme.
Heathrow has been crowned the world’s best airport for shopping for the second year in a row. The accolade was awarded to Heathrow in the Skytrax World Airport Awards, one of the aviation industry’s most prestigious awards.
Yesterday we told you how the 100 year old afternoon tea menu at the Ritz-Carlton London is getting a ‘British makeover’ ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
In just under 48 hours a new wave of strikes was due to begin at Iberia. The union involved, SEPLA- the pilots union- have called those off. The airline says that it is rescheduling cancelled flights and will try to reassign passengers to the flights they had originally booked.
Two days before the start of English Tourism week, Visit England launched a multi- million pound TV campaign. he same day ABTA, Association of British Travel Agents, wrote to the government bemoaning the “lop-sided” support of domestic tourism and that this promotion was a misuse of government money.
Word has reached CD-Traveller towers that the 100 year old afternoon tea menu at the Ritz-Carlton London is getting a ‘British makeover’ ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics.
Europe or America? For Megan, the overcrowded Alps can’t compete with the winter sports experience that can be had the other side of the Atlantic. Here she reveals her four favourite US ski resorts exclusively with CD-Traveller readers

It’s what Harry Potter fans around the world have been waiting for: on March 31, the hugely anticipated Warner Bros Studio Tour – The Making of Harry Potter will open at Watford’s Leaveseden studios.
California’s Mojave Desert is magical at this time of year when wildflower season is in full swing, writes Donna McCrohan Rosenthal
Just in time for the Olympics, a new breed of hotel spa has raised the bar in London. Jane Egginton takes a very enjoyable closer look and asks: are they worth it?
Brits abroad could be shaking off their boozy image, with more choosing to save the last of their holiday currency (36 per cent) rather than splashing out on final cocktails/duty-free alcohol (eight per cent) or a slap up meal (10 per cent)
Friends and family are beginning to book tickets for this summer’s slew of festivals. I flattered they thought to invite me along, but as regular readers of CD-Traveller will know: I am not a fan of festivals.
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Travel Destinations, Travel Rumblings
Have we lost our appetite for travelling to the USA? Figures released by the US government this week show that 1% fewer of us visited the country last year compared to 2009. What’s 1% you might say. That’s neither here nor there and can easily be made up. But the government also produced figures to show that over the last decade, the number of us travelling had dropped by 18% compared to the 1990’s. Only one other country, Japan had a higher drop over the decade.
Why might this be so?
Last week, The Mersey Partnership tourism awards were announced. Tate Liverpool and its Picasso exhibition last year walked away with two of the main awards, the Tourism Marketing Initiative of the Year and the Cultural and Heritage Experience of the Year.
Is this another survey of the blindingly obvious?
In many ways, yes. Anybody could tell you that prices rise during the school holidays. Airlines, hotels, tour operators all take the view that there is a captive market. Children can only have holidays out of term time so the law of supply and demand applies. A captive market means raised prices.
Except that the research by Santander Cards shows that it has been getting more and more expensive in proportion to other times of the year.
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