Posted on August 24, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

  First mobile phones, then pay-as-you-go toilets, now cigarettes. That’s right, Ryanair’s trolley dollies are once again flogging packets of fags onboard most flights.  But how did O’ Leary by-pass the EU on this one? Well, as you’d come to expect from anything that’s Ryanair-related, it’s smoking but not as you know it.  His cheeky cabin [...]

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

If low availability and high rental rates for car hire in Spain have been holding you captive at home this summer, we’ve got the news you’ve been waiting for…  We’ve just been informed that vehicle numbers are being boosted in our most popular destinations in Europe. It can only mean one thing - CHEAP car hire in Spain! Already we’ve seen [...]

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

This week’s Question of the Week comes from a customer called Joanna who is about to head off on a road trip across the US. Joanna says: I am planning to travel across the US from Los Angeles to New York.  I’ve already arranged to meet up with friends and family who are already over [...]

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

The days of bickering over who did or didn’t scratch your rental car may soon be at an end.  Hertz global holdings has just announced that it is considering introducing a new system for investigating damage to hire cars.  It’s a simple idea.  Photographs of all vehicles will be taken before and after they are hired. We can [...]

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

  Wondering where to drive your rental car in Barcelona or curious about who serves the best coffee in Lisbon? How could we let the topic of useful travel resources drop without mentioning Spotted by Locals? This travel advice website markets itself as ‘a series of city blogs for travellers who like to experience cities the [...]

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

With Twitter and Facebook still leading the way in the social media revolution (last count saw 30 million people logging-in to Facebook and 44.5 million visitors to Twitter), it was only a matter of time before these social networks infiltrated the world of travel. The following are just some of the latest and most useful Twitter travel applications available online: [...]