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St Lucia ’
Jan 25th, 2021 |
By The Editor
I think travellers can expect to see increased costs as destinations try to work out ways to pay for what the pandemic has cost them.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Tourists to pay
Tags: Barbados, bed taxes, compulsory health insurance, Mexico, Quintana Roo, St Lucia, Thailand
Nov 6th, 2020 |
By The Editor
November is traditionally the month that Caribbean nations and islands celebrate tourism. That’s because it is also the beginning of their main holiday season. The hurricane season should be over and tourists from North American begin to leave the colder temperatures and head south. Europeans also head over to avoid the cold but in nowhere near the numbers that come from neighbours to the north. But this season could be very different from others in the past although that hasn’t stopped the Caribbean from launching
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Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on It’s Caribbean Tourism Month
Tags: Bahamas, Caribbean, COVID-19 health requirements, Nevis, St Kitts, St Lucia
Jan 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The tax will be a topic of conversation this week but not as big a topic as how to entice more of us to holiday there.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Snippets from the Caribbean
Tags: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St Lucia
Jul 25th, 2019 |
By The Editor
According to a report in the St Lucia Times, Virgin Atlantic wanted $2.5 million from the St Lucian government to continue flying the route.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Will St Lucia suffer?
Tags: airline subsidies, St Lucia, Virgin Atlantic
Oct 20th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
Another airline collapsed this week – Cobalt Air, there seems to be a Brexit effect around and yet another investigation shows that some website reviews are faked
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 20th October 2018
Tags: Amorevore Food & Arts Festival, Aosta Valley, Brexit, Brittany Ferries, CAA, Cobalt Air, Cyprus., electric planes, fake reviews, Heathrow, Ibiza, Italy, St Lucia
Jun 1st, 2018 |
By The Editor
Saint Lucia has launched a campaign starting today called the Saint Lucia Summer of Discovery which enables one visitor the chance to win $10,000 when holidaying there this summer.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Holiday Travel Guarantee, Saint Lucia Summer of Discovery., St Lucia
May 26th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
catching Adrian’s eye this week: a new country comes into being – Eswatini – (it used to be Swaziland) the Design Museum in London is named European Museum of the Year and Charlotte Knowlson provides a putdown to two jokey male passengers on her easyJet flight.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 26th May 2018
Tags: “Welcome to the Farm.”, Bali, banning short-term lets, Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding, Catalonia, Charlotte Knowlson, Coronation Street tours, Design Museum, Estonian National Museum, Eswatini, Germany, Gili Trawangan, Hawaii, spain, St Lucia, Swaziland, u-Talk, World Animal Protection
Mar 3rd, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
New museum openings, mullet hair styles and the importance of British tourists to Nicaragua, Estonia and St Lucia occupy some of Adrian’s attention this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 3rd March 2018
Tags: Air Malta, Calvados Experience, campervan holidays, China, China Southern, Estonia, Fécamp, Fisheries Museum - Fécamp, Israel, Kurri Kurri, Mulletfest, Nicaragua, Normandy, Pont-l'Évêque, Science Museum, St Lucia, Wuhan
Feb 17th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
AS Cinese New Year gets away Adrian highlights a few places to see the festivities in the UK and Ireland
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 17th February 2018
Tags: Aberdeen, Belize, Bermuda, Big Ben/Elizabeth Tower, Birminghma, Caribbean, Chinese New Year, Cyclone Gita, Cyprus., Djibouti, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley Airport, Edinburgh, Ethiopia, Expedia, high speed rail, Loganair, London, Macao, Manchester, Norwich, Singapore, spain, St Lucia, Tonga, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, valencia
Dec 23rd, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
New passports, the new year sales, a new funicular railway and a new record in visitor numb ers at the Giant’s Causeway wrap up the pre-Christmas sippets column.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 23rd December 2017
Tags: Advertising Standards Authority, airline sales, Copenhagen, economy class benefits, Etihad, Freeport Lisboa Fashion Outlet, Giants Causeway, Jet 2, Lisbon, negative hotel reviews, passport replacement, Saint Lucia Food and Rum, St Lucia, Stoos, Stoos Bahn, switzerland, Tivoli Gardens, Travelmole, Uk as a safe holiday destination
Aug 4th, 2017 |
By The Editor
Is this too adventurous for me? Should I stick to cod and chips from my local chippie!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Fancy grilled lionfish?
Tags: Caribbean, Grills - Port Canaveral, lionfish, lionfish recipes, St Lucia
Jul 19th, 2014 |
By Adrian Lawes
Adrian wonders why we aren’t travelling to the US but Indonesia and Croatia appeal more. From Bedfordshire to St Lucia and a beer museum in Bruges, he rounds off the smaller stories of the week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 19th July 2014
Tags: Bruges Beer Museum, Buccaneer Bay, Chicago, Croatia, Gardens by the Bay, Hatfield House, italian museum prices, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Singapore, St Lucia, Woburn Abbey, Zagreb
May 23rd, 2013 |
By The Editor
The news that Spring has probably been the coldest for the last thirty-four years made me look for a summery, hot story for this morning to cheer us up. The Caribbean provides fun and the sunshine.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Bahamas, Barbados, Caribbean, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Festivals, Jamaica, St Lucia
May 1st, 2013 |
By The Editor
CD-Traveller has the low-down on what’s hot in the travel world, right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: May 2013
Tags: Antigua, Caribbean, China, East Anglia, India, Kashmir, Manchester, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Qantas, Reading, Samoa Air, South Africa, St Lucia, Taiwan, Thomas Cook, UAE, Vietnam
Jan 11th, 2013 |
By The Editor
World renowned chef, Jose Pizarro – aka the ‘godfather of Spanish cuisine’ – talks travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Jose Pizarro
Tags: Cap Maison hotel, Hong Kong, Japan, Jose Pizarro, Morocco, New York, San Francisco, spain, St Lucia, UK
Jul 25th, 2010 |
By The Editor
Craving surf, sand and sun? The Caribbean has it covered. However consisting as it does of over 7,000 islands and islets, attempting to pick the best beach can present something of a challenge. Fortunately we’ve done the leg work for you and selected 10 top spots; those who get trapped in front of their computers at home only have themselves to blame
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Pure shores
Tags: Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St Lucia