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Los Angeles Tips For Travellers : Must-Do and Must-See Things

…e people park their expensive cars to be admired and ogled at by tourists. Beaches The three recommendations I have for beaches are: Santa Monica. This town is to the north of Los Angeles and has wide and long beaches. It’s where “Baywatch” was filmed. There are upmarket hotels, stunning shopping arcades, malls and a popular pedestrian area. Manhattan Beach. On the other side of Los Angeles, to the south of the airport, is Manhattan Beach. This is…

Cunard World Cruise Week 4 Highlights (Guatemala to San Francisco)

…le bus from the Los Angeles Harbour in San Pedro, where we docked, to Long Beach. The harbour is a huge container port and very active. Close by is the Long Beach Harbour, which is where the original Queen Mary has been docked since 1987 and Carnival Cruises depart from. Queen Victoria docked just in front of the retired USS IOWA battleship, which is a museum. The Crown Princess cruise ship also was in port with us. The harbour itself is isolated…

Crowne Plaza Hollywood Beach Resort Florida -Tips For Travellers Video Review

…Watch my video review of the Crowne Plaza Hollywood Beach Resort Florida. The good and the not so good with tips for travellers visiting this area and hotel.   I stayed here while on a Titan Travel “Best of Florida” escorted tour. For more on the tour visit http://bit.ly/TitanFlorida Click here and subscribe to the Tips for Travellers YouTube channel, over 19 million video views and growing!…

What Are The Seven Best Things About Florida?

…reservation League http://www.mdpl.org Tourist Website: http://www.miamiandbeaches.com/places-to-see/south-beach-art-deco-district #4 Key West Both Ernest Hemingway and ex-USA President Harry Truman fell in love with Key West and had homes there that you can now tour. Both provide fascinating insights to the stories and lives of these influential men. Key West also has the iconic marker for the southernmost point of the USA that every visitor line…

Revealed: The 7 Mistakes Caribbean Cruisers Make Time and Time Again

…over an hour there for shopping. And in the end just hour and half at the beach. I have since then discovered and used a site called ResortPass.com, where I found I can book a day pass to fancy resorts with beach access and pools for way less, and sometimes in walking distance or a short taxi ride away. Caribbean Cruisers Safety Mistakes But whatever you do in the Caribbean don’t make the mistake of letting your guard down and be lulled into a se…

I’ve Done 15 Caribbean Cruises. Here’s What No-One’s Telling You!

…inations in the form of private beach clubs. Virgin Voyages has its Bimini Beach Club. Royal Caribbean has the Royal Beach Club on Paradise Island Nassau and are developing Perfect Day at Costa Maya on land they bought around that cruise-created port. But the drawback of these islands and beach clubs is important: the more of these curated spaces we visit, the less time we spend in real local communities and the less genuine Caribbean culture we e…

Adult Only Cruises

Best Adult-Only Cruises and Cruise Lines

…way that holidays and family lives work. Secondly, of course avoid any key holiday periods, whether that’s school holidays, Christmas, Easter, any of the big holiday periods like Thanksgiving in the US for example. Avoid all of those and look at the times when kids are most likely to be in school. For example, I really like cruising in November time into very early December, I like cruising in February, from mid-January but certainly February time…

Oia Santorini Greece

Titan Travel Italian Lakes and Azamara Greek Islands Cruise Review

…Their brochures and website offer a mind-boggling range of land and cruise holidays around the world. I don’t think they exclude anywhere. Having previously done a round Florida tour and a Tanzania safari with them, the holiday that I went for this time was a land and cruise combination called “Italian Lakes and Greek Isles”. It had a few nights in Lake Garda area and then 10 days cruising from Venice via the Greek islands to Athens. It appealed a…

Advice and Tips For First-Time Visitors to Cape Town

Advice and Tips For First-Time Visitors to Cape Town

…tourist junk. Well worth a visit! I can see why the car park was so full! Beaches The beaches Cape Town are amazing. Clifton Beach and Camps Bay are the most popular. There are four beaches in Clifton. Clifton is rated by the travel segment on the Discovery Channel as one of the best beaches in the world. It is really beautiful. The beautiful people go there. The water’s freezing cold, because it’s the Atlantic. I cannot stress how freezing cold,…

Kent Seaside towns: Margate, Ramsgate & Broadstairs. Potential still to come?

Kent Seaside towns: Margate, Ramsgate & Broadstairs. Potential still to come?

…e buzzing and have a positive air about it. It has a long, broad and sandy beach area that no doubt gets busy. It is the Broadstairs beach in the picture at the top of this posting. The town also has a number of the traditional, if a bit shabby, amusement arcades where one can end up spending too much time (and money) on penny machines and shooting games. There are a number of attractive walks around the area. Links Official site for the area: htt…

Cape Town: Bloubergstrand has the most stunning views of Table Mountain and the City Bowl

Cape Town: Bloubergstrand has the most stunning views of Table Mountain and the City Bowl

…alls. It is hard to figure out how many are full time homes or if they are holiday lets. But there certainly is a lot of them. The beach has big rocks and the waves crash over them, and you have amazing views across to the city and over to Robben Island. The views really are worth the trip and a stroll along the beach with the views are impressive. Along one stretch of the beach to the west of the town is an area where there are people kite-glidin…