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Dubai Visa Requirements for UK Visitors

Travel Rights

20 Oct at 2:06 pm

Dubai visa requirements for British citizens: yes you need a visa but there’s no prior application required and it’s free. What Visa You Actually Get British citizens will be issued with a tourist visa on arrival in Dubai and this is usually valid for 30 days for stay. The visitor visa does not need to be applied for in advance…

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Package Holiday Regulations Explained: ATOL, ABTA and Your Rights When Things Go Wrong

Package Holidays, Travel Rights

10 Oct at 11:47 am

Two people travel to Crete on the same date to the same hotel. One booked a package holiday with a tour operator. The other found a cheap flight and then independently found a hotel offer in a different window. A week before departure the airline or hotel goes bust. The two people’s next weeks are about to be very different.…

Vaccinations You’ll Need for Thailand

Tips

22 Sep at 2:17 pm

Typing “vaccinations for Thailand from UK” into a search bar, gives you the short answer for the most common vaccinations that most travellers require for travelling to Thailand: two to three shots, and how far in advance you need to have them given to you. In addition to the above shots, some travellers will require a few more depending on…

Getting an Emergency Passport Abroad

Package Holidays

18 Sep at 8:10 am

If your passport is lost or stolen while you are abroad, this can be a very worrying and stressful situation. If you are looking for information regarding a lost passport abroad, what to do in this situation, then the information you need to get home as soon as possible is to cancel your lost passport, report the loss to the…

How to Layer for a Long Haul Flight

Blog

8 Sep at 11:09 am

Working out what to wear on a long haul flight is less to do with choosing clothes for a journey and more to do with trying to manage a dry, cold and often stationary cabin environment over a long period of time. A simple layering system, that has been chosen with comfort and the promotion of circulation in mind, is…

Warm Destinations for October Half Term

Budget Travel

3 Sep at 9:15 am

Trying to book half term travel before the good dates disappear? Does “hot” for half term mean somewhere hot in october half term or is it just sales speak from the travel companies trying to fill seats? Using real weather recorded at proper weather stations across the world as opposed to simply reading from a travel brochure, the obvious choice…

The Three-Day Life of a Blog Post

Blog

29 Aug at 10:08 am

You publish something. You close the laptop. You go and make a cup of tea. And in that hour, more has been decided about whether anyone will ever read that article than anything you could possibly do in the following six months. The writing was almost the easy bit. What happens next is stranger, faster, and mostly invisible. Most people…

What to Do if Your Luggage Goes Missing

Budget Travel

18 Aug at 1:23 pm

Your luggage has not arrived. This is one of the worst feelings at the airport. However, there is a process in place to deal with lost luggage. If followed in the correct order, this will enable you to retrieve your luggage or obtain compensation for its value. Report It Before You Leave The Airport Standing at an empty baggage collection…

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The Job That Doesn’t Officially Exist

Blog

12 Aug at 9:45 am

Before you read another word of this, consider who wrote it. Not in an existential sense – just the practical question of what category of person sits here, typing. A journalist? Almost certainly not, by any legal definition. A publisher? Possibly, in the loosest sense. A worker? That's where it gets genuinely strange, because the honest answer is: nobody has…

Package holiday booking confirmation documents

The Invisible Object You Buy When You Book a Package Holiday

Budget Holidays, Package Holidays

5 Aug at 12:55 pm

Somewhere in the small print of your Tui or Jet2 booking, your fortnight in Lanzarote has been quietly declared indivisible. Not the hotel. Not the flight. Not the transfer where a man holds a sign at arrivals with your surname spelled wrong. The whole lot together – one thing, legally speaking. A single invisible object. And the reason it has…

The City You’ve Never Actually Seen

Destinations

12 Jul at 8:26 am

Stand in the middle of Tokyo station and watch someone who is deaf navigating it. They're fine. They're better than fine, actually – they're moving with a kind of fluency that any bewildered hearing tourist, headphones in, waiting for an announcement to tell them which platform to use, would quietly envy. That's because Tokyo station wasn't just designed for people…

Shipping container falling from cargo ship

The Trend That Died in a Container Ship Off Rotterdam

Trends

8 Jul at 9:13 am

There is a shade of green somewhere between sage and khaki that had about eleven days of genuine cultural life. It appeared in the right places – a few street-style photographs, a couple of Instagram accounts that people actually follow rather than merely feel guilty about not following. And then, before most retailers had even typed it into their order…

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Travel news, tips and the stories behind the trip

Dubai Visa Requirements for UK Visitors

Package Holiday Regulations Explained: ATOL, ABTA and Your Rights When Things Go Wrong

Vaccinations You’ll Need for Thailand

Getting an Emergency Passport Abroad

How to Layer for a Long Haul Flight

Warm Destinations for October Half Term

The Three-Day Life of a Blog Post

What to Do if Your Luggage Goes Missing

The Job That Doesn’t Officially Exist

The Invisible Object You Buy When You Book a Package Holiday

The City You’ve Never Actually Seen

The Trend That Died in a Container Ship Off Rotterdam

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