Spanish holiday regions reintroduce Covid-mask rules after seeing surge in cases

by David Hibbins | Jan 5, 2024 | Latest Travel News

The Covid and flu epidemic in Spain is becoming so bad that a number of holiday regions are reintroducing the obligatory mask-wearing rule in certain cases.Health authorities across the country are reporting saturated hospitals and health centres, with patients once...

Revealed: How minor injuries abroad can carry a BIG price tag if you’re not insured, from £1,600 for treating a cut lip in the U.S to £1,860 for advice about a cough in Vietnam

by David Hibbins | Jan 4, 2024 | Latest Travel News

If you’re the sort of traveller who’s blasé about travel insurance, here’s a wake-up call.A travel insurance company has revealed recent bills holidaymakers have received for minor injuries – and some are eye-watering.A simple trip to the emergency room...

Revealed: Six in ten Brits are planning at least three holidays in 2024, with budgets as high as £10,000 per getaway

by David Hibbins | Jan 4, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Brits are making up for lost time, with one in six (59 per cent) planning at least three holidays this year, according to a survey.The study revealed that they’re not going to do it on the cheap, either, with one in three (33 per cent), planning on spending at...

Inside Obertauern, the ski resort made famous by The Beatles that gets so much snow it’s ‘climate-change-proof’ – and a stay at a VERY seductive hotel there with a heavenly pool and rooms with bedside condoms

by David Hibbins | Jan 4, 2024 | Latest Travel News

That unsettling cry bouncing from peak to peak. That was me. Startled as I careered on my snowboard off one of the world’s steepest and fastest chairlift descents, in the Austrian ski resort of Obertauern.Luckily, I had a great hotel in which to let my nerves...

From a chocolate-box haven in Switzerland to a surfer’s paradise in Portugal: UNWTO unveils the 54 most beautiful tourism villages you’ve (probably) never heard of…

by David Hibbins | Jan 4, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Thanks to social media, and the streams of travel images we’re fed daily, true ‘hidden-gem’ and ‘off-radar’ locations are more challenging to come by than they once were. The world has become more accessible.But those hankering after...

World’s biggest cruise ship prepares for service: 1,198 foot-long, 20-DECK Icon Of The Seas with a 55ft waterfall and rooms for 7,600 guests arrives in Puerto Rico during trials

by David Hibbins | Jan 4, 2024 | Latest Travel News

The world’s largest cruise ship has made its way to Puerto Rico as it prepares to accept its first paying passengers.Locals and tourists in Ponce, Puerto Rico, were given a sneak peak at the 1,198 foot-long, 250,800-tonne pleasure cruiser, named the Icon Of The...