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Luxury worldwide holidays on sale with British Airways Club World
2nd May 2019 by Stuart
BA have just launched a Club World business class sale with some exceptional flight + hotel deals. A Club World flight is the perfect way to start your holiday and is a world away from the economy experience. Relax in the exclusive British Airways lounge prior to takeoff, with complimentary food, drink and Champagne to toast your getaway. You'll get fast track security, up to two 32kg checked bags, priority boarding, flatbed seat in the dedicated Club World cabin and fabulous in-flight...
Review: Berjaya Langkawi Resort
18th September 2018 by Stuart
Langkawi in Malaysia has all the trademarks of a 'paradise island' and is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to the incredible but overcrowded and over-commercialised beaches and islands of Thailand, its closest neighbour. There are a handful of large resorts on the island, and Berjaya Langkawi, in an area called Pantai Kok on the west coast, is among the most popular. I recently spent nine nights at the resort. A spectacular bay surrounded by limestone mountains and jungle, it...
Booking an Airbnb is set to become less Japan-easy
13th June 2018 by Stuart
If, like me, you're a fan of using online home rental company Airbnb, then keep an eye on the current influx of challenges and court cases that are cropping up against the company all over the world.The latest announcement comes from Japan where a whopping 80% of the country's Airbnb homes, apartments and rooms have just been wiped from the site. That equates to around 62,000 homes removed - leaving only around 13,800 to choose from.So, what's happened?If you read my previous post about the...
Paris vs Airbnb
18th April 2018 by Stuart
It's "baguettes at dawn" as the row between the city of Paris and online home rental company Airbnb escalates ...and it looks like Paris might win. What's been happening? Paris officials are taking Airbnb to court claiming more than 43,000 homes listed on the site are unregistered with the French government. The city already restricts homeowners to renting out their homes for no more than 120 days a year, but if the ruling goes in their favour, up to 84% of Airbnb's Paris rentals could be...
Croydon - City of Love? Hilarious Valentine's Day offer from easyHotel
13th February 2018 by Stuart
Croydon: City of Love? Sure, Croydon doesn’t seem an obvious first choice to spend a romantic evening with your significant other. But easyHotel could be about to change all that……or maybe not…This Valentine’s Day, for just a £5 upgrade, the budget hotel chain are offering couples choosing to stay at their Croydon hotel the chance to transform their own room into a love nest. That’s right, a self-assembly pink and orange four-poster canopy to turn their bed into the...
Win a night in the LEGO house with Airbnb
26th January 2021 by John
As prizes go, this one truly rocks. Airbnb and LEGO have teamed up to offer one family the trip of a lifetime. An entire LEGO house has been built in Billund, Denmark and is filled with 25 million bricks. Normally it’s open to the public, but the winners of the competition will be given private access for a day. The winners will get to create their own LEGO lunch (which will then be cooked by chefs using real food!), will have a private guided tour by master builder Jamie Berard, and will...
Airbnb hosts welcome 45 million travellers this summer
26th January 2021 by John
Airbnb have had a sizzling summer. I used Airbnb extensively during a summer jaunt across California, but I wasn’t alone - so did 45 million other people. On one single August day alone (12 August) 2.6 million people checked in to an Airbnb property. Wowzers. The growth of Airbnb has been phenomenal. Seven years ago, 47,000 people checked in to Airbnb properties during the summer. Just three years ago that number had increased to 17 million. That’s a hockey stick curve of exponential...
