In the middle of Manhattan, The Gershwin is one of New York’s most interesting hotels. Located just off 5th Avenue, in a 13 storey building, the hotel is run by pop art fans, and this is evident when you see the walls - each floor of the hotel has walls lined with the prints of […]
For UK residents the weather is starting, just starting, to bite with that winter cold, so what could chase away the winter blues faster than a break to the lovely island of Majorca? Thomson are currently offering breaks, leaving at the end of this month, for a total price of as little as £376 per […]
If you are a student then you have a distinct advantage when it comes to budget travel – that advantage is discounts! Basically lots of companies love to offer students discounts, the logic being that when you finally go into that well-paid job, that hopefully the university education will lead to, you will remain a […]
Scandinavia is such a fantastic place to visit, with its vast rural areas, its clean and quiet towns, its vibrant metropolitan areas such as Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Oslo, where you can always find a good night out and more besides. But the thing that always puts the budget traveller off Scandinavia is its expense. […]
In Europe there is so much to see, London, Paris, Florence, Barcelona – I could go on. But the problem for those on a limited budget travelling around Europe, is how to meet the costs of getting around. One good option for getting from place to place, in my opinion, is Eurolines.
One concern, particularly to […]
If you feel like enjoying the Renaissance architecture and art of Florence, but want to keep your finances within budget, then you could enjoy the experience of staying at the Florence Hostelling International Hostel. Housed in the elegant seventeenth century Villa Camerata, with broad, majestic stairways, the hostel has a large dining room, a lounge […]
I once knew a crowd of Dutch and English people who had escaped the city life, and moved to rural Brittany in north-west France. Just one problem though - Brittany can get pretty cold in the wintertime. So their second escape, but just for the winter, was to Morocco in north Africa. Having now been […]
A visit to the island of Rarotonga, need not cost you a fortune, once you’ve got there that is, if you stay at the Backpackers International Hostel. With a population of a mere 9,500 people, Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands of the South Pacific. If you are shopping for a […]
