Travel Tips

Personal blog about travel, tour, and hotel related topics

Entries for June, 2010

A trip north of the border

If you think you know golf then think again. You can’t truly understand golf until you have played the game in the land of its birth Scotland. Golf in Scotland is like golf nowhere else. The game came to lifew in the historic grounds of St Andrews, and to play the game as it was first envisioned you really need to play here. St Andrews has six different course that you can play, and as such is the largest complex of golf courses in Europe. The thing about golf in Scotland is that the courses are more wild than in any other country.

When the game was created there was no fairways, and no real greens. Just a place to start and

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A Christmas trip to London

London is one of those times of the year that you dread as a parent. Obviously once it is time to engage in the festivities I enjoy it as much s the next person, but the preparations really take it out of me these days.

There is a great way to get around all of the difficulties associated with Christmas shopping, and that is to take a holiday to somewhere which will adequately cater for your shopping! London is a great location to buy all of your good for Christmas for the kids, and it obviously offers you many things in the way of luxuries to cushion the burden of your chores too.

If you head down Oxford Street, the likelihood is that

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Insider Travel Tips for your Christmas Holiday in Rio De Janeiro

Get the most out of your exciting holiday in this fabulous city, pay attention to some sound travel tips from those in the know.

Arriving in Rio at Christmas time may sound like the holiday you have always longed for, but only adequate planning and some key bookings made really early on in the year will ensure you get to truly enjoy those main festive days, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. Whatever your budget, your age or the number in your travel group, your time, money and opportunity will be wasted if you have to spend hours in travel agents or tourism offices once you are in Rio, trying to get from A to B.

If this is your first time

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Disney Travel Tips: What to Know Before You Go

It is hard to imagine a more exciting, magical, and eagerly anticipated vacation than a Disney theme park adventure.


And because the prospect of the trip is so exciting, the planning process can be half the fun. Here is how to get started planning the trip of a lifetime, for a lot less than you might think.


Order Your Free Disney DVD

One of the first things you will want to do is take advantage of the free Disney Parks Vacation Planning DVD. This official Disney DVD takes you on a complete tour of both resorts. Go inside the parks and get an overview of the Disney complexes in both Florida and Southern California. Preview the water and roller

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An Amazing Time in China

Every year I go on holiday with my best friend, and we take it in turns to choose where to go each year. This year it was her turn to decide on the destination – something that I dread every year! Last year we had gone to a nice relaxing Greek island called Mykonos, and I had loved it, but I got the impression that my friend was a bit bored out there. My idea of a holiday is a beach, a bar, and a few nice drinks, but my friend is a bit more cut out for adventure than me. I knew that this time around she was going to throw me a curve ball of some sort, so I braced myself when

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