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Langkawi Malaysia water taxi

Asia

10 Must-See Langkawi Sights and other Tips For Travellers

…u could book promo Langkawi hotel on Traveloka. This is a Malaysian online hotel-booking site so it has local understanding of the region and choices. They charge no booking fee and have a useful comparison system that should help you evaluate different hotel options. To book with them click here. Langkawi Malaysia Getting Around There is limited public transport and so most visitors use taxis. As these do not usually use meters you should agree t…

Oulanka National Park Finland canoe trip with Outdoor Passion Finland

Finland

Visit Finland Tips – 9 Must-Do Summer Wilderness Activities

…uusamo Finland #7 Guided mountain biking around Syote hills with Iso-Syote Hotel and Safaris mountain biking around Syote hills with Iso-Syote Hotel and Safaris #8 “Wild food Movement” Restaurants Finnish people, certainly in this region, are focused on healthy eating and sustainable sourcing of produce, meat and fish. They have fostered the “wild food movement” which is to source as much food from the wild. So it is not even “organic” as this req…

Cruise Tips / luxury

I Cruised On The “World’s Most Luxurious Line”. Here’s what I thought

…supposed to be an included luxury hotel. It was more a business conference hotel. The next morning’s transfer to our ship, the Regent Seven Seas Navigator, was late and when we finally got on board, the cabins weren’t ready. So, as we set sail, cruising ultra-luxury had not yet seemed very elevated for the price. Attention to Details However, I must admit when I first got into my suite a few hours after boarding, I had seen some promising signs. I…

Cruise Tips

I Discover The Best & Worst Of A Nile River Cruise

…t before immigration at the airport and guided through, had all transfers, hotels in Cairo, flights to and from Luxor, the river cruise, entry to the sites, food (breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner), Wi-Fi (though not that good!), daily Sip & Sail hour with all drinks using Egyptian spirits every evening. Egyptian beers and wines with lunch and dinner, entertainment events, and the Cruise Manager (Walaa) and the Egyptologists. The only ext…

Cruise Tips

I Cruise Silversea To See If Its New Owners Have Ruined It

…rom your home to the airport, usually business class flights, a pre-cruise hotel stay, transfers from hotel to the ship, all the on-board inclusions (butler, drinks, Basic Wi-Fi, gratuities, most specialty dining, and now also a choice of one excursion per port), post hotel stay or a day room, transfer to airport and then limo home. The “Port-to-Port” is the cruise-only fare with those same inclusions on board. Talking of fares, they still offer m…

Cruise Tips

Seniors Cruise Tips: Too Many Cruisers Over 55 Fall For These 8 Cruising Traps

…s means my bags are handled for me. They take them from the airport to the hotel, usually I can them leave them outside my hotel room and they collect and load into the transfer bus and so on. A few other packing things that apply more to us. Medications are critical. Ships don’t have pharmacies to fill our prescriptions, so bring more than enough of what you need. I bring several weeks more than the cruise. Keep it in your hand luggage, and I lik…

Celebrity / Cruise Ship / transportation

Do Low Crew Wages For Cruise Ship Jobs Fund Luxury Cruise Fares?

…vacation destinations. It is not just the cost of plush rooms for a 5 star hotel or cruise experience. There is also a cost that the local population or those providing the luxury service may be paying . Ask what you can do to make sure that the crew, the staff and the communities are benefiting too. Read my review of the Celebrity Eclipse luxury cruise ship from when I was on it. Background: Channel 4 described the “Cruises Undercover: The Truth…

New York: Skyscraper Museum New York: is it a towering success?

Attraction review / New York / Tips for Travellers / travel / usa

New York: Skyscraper Museum New York: is it a towering success?

…geeky on these things!). The museum was literally about 50 yards from the hotel at 39 Battery Place. And the warning should have been there when it was clearly quiet and the bored lady on reception had a mobile phone stuck to her ear gossiping away to someone, while she put out her hand for the $5 each entrance fee and then mumbled about going up the ramp and that the museum was on one floor. To call the place a museum is misleading. At best it c…

Shanghai China. Tips on visiting this chameleon city!

China / Shanghai / travel

Shanghai China. Tips on visiting this chameleon city!

…llenges. These private tours can be arranged through the concierge at your hotel. It’s going to cost you only about 50 US Dollars a day per person – and that includes travelling in an air conditioned van, with both a driver and a guide. Of course they will take you to tourist trap places like the inevitable pearl factories where they will be getting kickbacks. But you will find you going to get that on most tours, even organized tours. The Luxury…

Orient Express: Blogger outreach and my observations

Orient Express / Tips for Travellers / travel

Orient Express: Blogger outreach and my observations

…pe Town, the Eastern & Oriental train in Asia, Royal Scotsman train, Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg and Hotel Cipriani in Venice. 3: They tend not to push the Orient Express name to the forefront of their properties, other than the train. This means that people do not always know they are going to an Orient Express venue, something that they are looking to evolve and change so that people come to better understand their diversity, and the qua…

Koh Samui / Koh Samui / Thailand / Thailand

Koh Samui Thailand. Travel Tips And Top Things To See and Do

…nothing to distract you, then you will love Koh Samui. Also if you are a young backpacker type you will love that you can get cheap accomodation and party at Chaweng with piles of likeminded travellers. Read my review of the Tongsai Bay Hotel in Koh Samui: click here Useful websites http://www.kohsamui.com/ http://www.1stopsamui.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Samui http://wikitravel.org/en/Koh_Samui…