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Jul 11th, 2020 |
By The Editor
In all, I can’t see many people from this side of the pond visiting Florida in the next few months.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Animal Kingdom, Disney, Florida, Magic Kingdom, Orlando, USA
Nov 1st, 2018 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world, right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Boracay, Cape Town, Central America, City of Lights, Costa Rica, Denmark, Durban, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, island, Las Vegas, Lion city, Lion State, Miami, Orlando, Paris, Philippines, Ryanair, Singapore, solo, Stansted, Tampa, Travel, travelling, USA
Jul 1st, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
In a busy week, the BA cabin crew strike begins but. on the plus side. there are the 4th of July celebrations and the London Korea Festival is on next Saturday.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Aberdeen Airport, Badu Gili, British Airways strike, Cyprus., easyjet, fraudulent insurance claims, Greece, Iceland, Kaunas, Lithuania, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, London Korean Festival, Orlando, Philadelphia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Uniplaces, Vilnius, WAWA Welcome America! Festival, Zambia
May 20th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
Last year saw more Britons travel aboard for over ten years.And more holidayed at home making 2016 a bumper year for travel.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Canada, Cyprus., Dreamland, Egypt, France, Houston, Ireland, Italy, Margate, Moira Canal Festival, National Trailboat Festival, Orlando, Pandora – The World of AVATAR, spain, Tattershall Lakes Country Park, Texas, Thomas Cook, Turkey, USA
Sep 5th, 2016 |
By The Editor
Almost every year along comes a survey that shows Britons are less than knowledgeable about major tourist attractions. Another has come along courtesy of holiday comparison website, icelolly.com. Only 6% of people were able to identify all seven modern wonders, with large proportions of Brits missing Christ the Redeemer in Rio, Brazil (60%) and Petra in Jordan. (67%.) When asked about how many wonders they think they had correctly identified, 15% of Brits thought they had spotted 10 out of the 21 wonders and only
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Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Disney World, Florida, icelolly.com, Kissimmee, Orlando, Petra, seven natural wnders of the world, seven wonders of the world, Stonehenge
May 16th, 2016 |
By The Editor
Last week, the Florida tourist city of Orlando announced that 66 million tourists visited the area in 2015. It was yet another year of growth. But this year, the numbers may not be so rosy.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Disneyworld, Florida, Orlando, SeaWorld, Universal, USA
Mar 8th, 2016 |
By The Editor
In Florida Visit Orlando, has increased facilities for visitors by opening interactive information kiosks along the Florida Turnpike, some manned and some not.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Florida Turnpike, George Aguel, interactive tourist information centres, Orlando, tourist information centres, Visit Orlando
Jun 22nd, 2015 |
By The Editor
One of Orlando’s longest lived attractions, Wet ’n Wild, is going to close at the end of the 2016 season.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Orlando, Orlando Sentinel, Universal Orlando, Wet ’n Wild
Jun 1st, 2015 |
By The Editor
Yesterday, Visit Orlando announced that it was planning a world-wide marketing campaign that will include the UK.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Orlando, Orlando – the Never Ending Story, Visit Orlando
Jun 30th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month it’s good news for Marrakech and medical tourism but not bad news for the beleagured Passport Office
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: America, bees, Brits, Camilla Goddard, Caribbean, Center Parcs, Disney World, Dominican Republic, Eat With, India, John Le Carre, Kim Kardashian, London, Marrkech, medical tourism, Morocco, mosquito, Orlando, Our Kind of Traitor, passports, Poland, Poppy Delevingne, Red City, St Ermin's Hotel, St James's Park, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Woburn Forest
May 19th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Don’t confuse Fort Worth with its city slicker cousin, Dallas. Cowtown – as Fort Worth is often referred to – maybe just 30 miles down the road but it’s a world away from Big D’s bright lights and big hotels. For an authentic taste of Texas – think cowboy culture and the old west – Fort Worth is where you go writes Kaye Holland
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: America, Amon Carter Museum, Anaheim, barbecue, Billy Bob's, Bird Cafe, Bonnie and Clyde, Chisholm Trail, Cowtown, Dallas, Dallas Cowboys, drovers, Fort Worth, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Hell's Half Acre, Honky Tonk, JFK, JFK airport, John Wayne, Lone State, longhorns, Main Street Forth Worth Arts Festival, Mickey Mouse, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Omni Hotel, Orlando, Peter Brothers Hats, Reatea, Retro Cowboy, rodeo, Spiral, Stockyards Cattle drive, Sundance Square Plaza, Texas, The Kimbell, The White Elephant Saloon, Tim Love, USA
Mar 9th, 2013 |
By The Editor
Can there be anyone who hasn’t heard of Orlando or Kissimmee in Florida? What’s the attraction this year? It’s the Chocolate Kingdom Adventure Tour
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Chocolate Kingdom Adventure Tour, Florida, Kissimmee, Orlando
Oct 26th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Ashley Gibbons, chief executive at The International Travel Writers Alliance, talks travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Disney, Disneyworld, Epping Forest, Florida, Fort Myers, German Alps, India, London, Malaysia, Orlando, Paris, Saint Lucia, The International Travel Writers Alliance, Tunisia, UK, USA, VisitBritain
May 24th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Travel search site, Kayak, has revealed that Brits will be spending their summer holidays close to home and within the continent this year
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Alicante, Asia, Los Angeles, Malaga, New York, North America, Orlando, spain, Tenerife, UK
Apr 26th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Opening at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida tomorrow is TurtleTrek, an attraction that is going to have you children – and you – demanding a visit.
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news |
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Tags: Florida, Orlando, SeaWorld, TurtleTrek
Mar 12th, 2012 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel news, Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Florida, Harry Potter, Leaveseden studios, Orlando, Warner Brothers, Watford
Oct 9th, 2011 |
By The Editor
I happened to see the Sarah Jessica Parker film, I Don’t Know How She Does It, last night. The film, based on Alison Pearson’s best selling novel, was shot in Boston and had the effect of making me want to book a break in Boston.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Alison Pearson, Australia, Baker Street, Baz Luhrmann, Boston, Eat, Edinburgh, Hary Potter, Hugh Jackman, I Don’t Know How She Does It, London, Love, Naples, New York, One Day, Orlando, Paris, Pray, Rome, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sherlock Holmes, The Devil Wears Prada
Jun 18th, 2010 |
By Adrian Lawes
Today’s the day.
It’s the grand opening of Universal’s new theme park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. At Orlando in Florida, Universal have put a lot of time, effort and money (Universal won’t say how much but figures of close to $200 million have been bandied around) into creating a spectacular attraction that they are hoping will dazzle visitors from around the world.
Will it?
Last month they held a sneak preview from buyers around the world and the general view amongst world weary travel executives and journalists was that it would.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Orlando, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Orlando Resort
May 19th, 2010 |
By The Editor
The big tourism news in Florida is the opening of the world’s first Harry Potter theme park on June 18th at Universal Studios in Orlando. But over on the other side of the U.S. at Universals’ studio in Hollywood, the news is all about the huge 3-D King Kong exhibit that will open in early July.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Hollywood, King Kong, Orlando, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Studios Theme parks
May 17th, 2010 |
By The Editor
If one word sums up Orlando to visitors from the UK or Ireland it would probably be Disneyworld. It is also the 4th largest shopping area in the US after New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The next word might be Universal. espcially sine the Harry Potter area opens next month. But would you think of Winter Park? Similarly if you asked people about shopping in New York, they might say Park Avenue. But have you heard of Park Avenue, Winter Park?
I would be prepared to make a small wager that most of the visitors from our countries never visit Winter Park or even know that it is there. It is about 20 miles away from Orlando and is an upmarket area, a bit like a large village with one main street, Park Avenue, Off this street radiate a few shops, the Morse Museum of Modern Art and, slightly further away, the Polasek Museum and Sculpture Garden. Park avenue is full of boutique shops for clothing, some souvenirs and restaurants galore. hardly a chain store there.
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Lake Oceola, Morse Museum, Orlando, Polasek Museum, Scenic Boat Tours, Winter Park