Posts Tagged ‘
Netherlands ’
Nov 14th, 2021 |
By The Editor
For ten days, Austria has announced it will have a full lockdown for residents who haven’t been fully vaccinated. The Netherlands has something similar as do some states in Germany. Will this approach be replicated elsewhere? It could happen especially in countries like Bulgaria and Romania where vaccination numbers are lower than the EU average. What does this mean for British holidaymakers especially as some of the countries concerned are about to open for the skiing season. It probably means that if you are not
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Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Austria, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Romania, unvaccinated
Oct 22nd, 2021 |
By The Editor
If Morocco has taken this action will others follow as they see increasing cases of COVID-18 in the UK?
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Banning flights, FCDO, Germany, Morocco, Netherlands
Aug 18th, 2021 |
By The Editor
It seems some countries aren’t confident about the efficacy lasting a year.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on How long will jabs last?
Tags: Austria, Croatia, Netherlands, vaccination length efficacy, vaccination passports
Jun 29th, 2021 |
By The Editor
It is making it difficult for holidaymakers to have any confidence in knowing where to travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on No to Britons
Tags: Balearic Islands, Delta variant, Estonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Madeira, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, spain, Taiwan
Jun 15th, 2021 |
By The Editor
Booking any overseas holiday which would take place in the next month or two could be a real risk.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Restrictions tighten
Tags: coronavirus travel restrictions, Delta variant, Gibraltar, Netherlands
Dec 23rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
If travel restrictions are removed for Easter it might be hard not to bump into an escaping Brit wherever you go in the world!
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Dreaming of travel
Tags: Belgium, coronavirus spread, France, Ireland, Netherlands, spain
Sep 18th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Seven countries have been added to the list to which Irish reidents can visit. The UK has added teo but taken another two off.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review: 18th September 2020
Tags: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus., ECDC, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Maldives, Mexico, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, UK, Wales
Aug 28th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The main news this week is that “don’t fly” recommendations have been introduced for the Czech Republic, Jamaica and Switzerland.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 28th August 2020
Tags: Bali, Bermuda, Cuba, Czech Republic, ECDC, Egypt, Indonesia, Jamaica, Netherlands, switzerland, Tunisia
Aug 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The government argument is that when there is sufficient evidence to remove a destination from the green list it should be done speedily
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Is 30 hours enough?
Tags: Aruba, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel Advice, France, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Turks & Caicos
Oct 13th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
Destinations are pointing out what a good summer it has been for them. But a VAT increase in Ireland may deter UK tourists from visiting the Republic.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 13th October 2018
Tags: Birgufest, British Airways, Cornwall Airport Newquay, disruptive passenger behaviourur, Greece, Ireland, Jet 2, Malta, Nepal, Netherlands, Over 55's
Mar 5th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Ranked in the top 25 theme parks in the world, the Dutch located, Efteling has seen over 130 million people through its gates since it opened 66 years ago.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Efteling, Netherlands
Oct 15th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
Why an aeroplane cabin door is on Shoreditch High Street is one of the things Adrian mentions this week along with Newcastle-Gateshead success and the end of refurbishment at the Glenfinnan Monument.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 15th October 2016
Tags: easyjet, Gatwick, Genoa, Genoa Science Festival, Glenfinnan Monument, Great Exhibition of the North, Greece, Heathrow, Monarch, Montreal, National Trust for Scotland, Netherlands, New York, Newcastle Gateshead, Sri Lanka, Statue of Liberty, Thailand, Thomas Cook, Tunisia
Nov 10th, 2015 |
By The Editor
Although Efteling is the third largest theme park in Europe, many Brits have still never heard of it.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Winter at Efteling
Tags: Aquanura, Efteling, Netherlands
Sep 10th, 2015 |
By The Editor
Whilst you are in the Netherlands there are lots of things to see this autumn in their galleries and museums.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Letter from Holland
Tags: Cobra Museum, De Meelfabriek, De Nieuwe Kerk, Dutch Lithography Museum, EYE Filmmuseum, Hermitage Amsterdam, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Hortus Botanicus, Keukenhof, Kunstha -Rotterdam, Living Statues Festival, Maurittshuis, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands, Onderzeebootloods, Panorama Mesdag, Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum
Jul 11th, 2015 |
By Adrian Lawes
Caves, bathtubs, sheep trekking and surfing off the Lisbon coastline are some of the stories that captured Adrian’s attention this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 11th July 2015
Tags: Aberhyddnant Farm, Berlin Bathtub Race, Ericeira, Good Day Out, Museum of Speed, Netherlands, Nijmeegse Vierdaagse, Nijmegen, Pendine Sands, Postojna Cave, Skyros, Slovenia
May 25th, 2013 |
By Irene Middleman Thomas
Irene Thomas found Curacao the most successfully diverse country she has ever visited – and one of the most beautiful as well
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Bon Bini! Curacao has it all in one very small island
Tags: Aruba, Bonaire, Caribbean, Curacao, Dutch Antilles, Europe, Netherlands, UK
Apr 30th, 2013 |
By Adrian Lawes
Today is a public holiday in the Netherlands. It is Queen’s Day. If you though the Brits could make pageantry and the monarchy a big tourist draw then watch the events in the Netherlands!
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Keukenhof, Netherlands, Queen's Day, Rijksmuseum
Mar 26th, 2013 |
By Adrian Lawes
Adrian visits Keukenhof the eight week, Spring flower bonanza that takes place each year just outside Amsterdam and which attracts 70,000 of us from the UK each year
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Gardens, Keukenhof, Netherlands, Peter Seabrook, tulips
Feb 3rd, 2012 |
By The Editor
Boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith have sifted through the schmaltz to find Valentine’s packages that will really set hearts aflutter (and won’t involve soggy petals clogging the plughole). Here are 10 hot properties that offer something a little bit different…
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Tags: A'jia Hotel, amsterdam, Aquapura, Buckinghamshire, Canal House, Cornwall, Douro Valley, Florence, Grand Hotel Villa Cora, Hampshire, Istanbul, Italy, La Mamounia, Lime Wood, London, Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa, Marrakech, Morocco, Mr & Mrs Smith, Netherlands, Portugal, St Moritz Hotel, Stoke Park, The Connaught, Turkey, Wiltshire
Jan 11th, 2012 |
By The Editor
From early April to October, the Netherlands will be hosting an event that takes place only once every ten years. Floriade is a gardener’s paradise
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Floriade 2012, Netherlands, Venlo
May 30th, 2011 |
By The Editor
Orange Hotel’s VP of Marketing on Mexico, Kenya and the other side of Kowloon
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Jennie So, VP of marketing at Orange Hotels
Tags: Germany, Hong Kong, Kenya, Kowloon, Mexico, Netherlands, Tanzania
Mar 13th, 2011 |
By The Editor
With the budget less than a fortnight away the travel trade is boosting its attack on how high APD is and how damaging it could be for jobs and the economy if it stays at its high level. They have been boosted in that one of the few countries in Western Europe to retain such a tax has got rid of it. Ireland has removed it because it was seeing reduced tourism coming into Ireland and fewer air passengers both of which meant the tax was not raising net money but costing the economy instead. Will George Osborne, the Chancellor, take heed?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Air Passenger Duty, APD, British Tourism Week, Denmark, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, UK
Feb 25th, 2011 |
By Adrian Lawes
Amsterdam, the biggest city in Holland is very cosmopolitan as Holly White showed in her take on the city where she lives which appeared earlier this month. It has restaurants of all types of cuisine, indeed down some streets you can find a Burger King followed by a KFC and then a Macdonalds. There are lots of signs in English and English is widely heard because there are so many tourists. On the trains coming in from Schipol to Amsterdam Central you will hear the train guard in four different languages. So is Amsterdam typical of Holland or like many big cities, internationalised? To judge how representative it was, I took a trip half an hour away to the city of Utrecht.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on A Day in … Utrecht
Tags: Aboriginal Art Museum- Utrecht, amsterdam, Holland, Hoog Catherijre, Netherlands, rail fares to Utrecht, Utrecht
Oct 27th, 2010 |
By Adrian Lawes
Don’t countries want us to visit them? Have many got a tourism death wish that they cannot understand?
Austria has decided to follow Germany and introduce an eco- tax from January 2011 on passengers leaving from its airports. Just in time for the skiing season, the time when the largest number of visitors will be expected. They will charge €8 to fly to a European destination and €40 elsewhere. And how much will this tax bring them? Estimates vary from between €50-€70 million per year. And how much will they lose as visitors decide to go elsewhere
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Air Asia, Air Passenger Duty, Austria, Climate Change, eco-taxes, Germany, Manchester Airport, Netherlands
Feb 8th, 2010 |
By Adrian Lawes
Last November there was a further increase in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) we UK based flyers pay. Next November it will go up yet again. In Ireland a similar tax is blamed by Ryanair for a substantial fall in the number of people visiting there and its decision to maintain quite so many planes at Dublin. It has concerned some countries that their tourism is being affected so the Netherlands has abolished the tax.
The UK is one of the most heavily taxed, if not the most heavily one for airline flights. But it doesn’t only hit people in the UK. Because of the high cost, overseas countries that rely on tourism for substantial national income are worried we won’t travel there.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on APD and the Caribbean
Tags: Air Passenger Duty (APD), Caribbean, Egypt, Ireland, Netherlands, UK