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Celebrate a Luxurious Christmas and New Year with Sukosol Hotels

Celebrate a Luxurious Christmas and New Year with Sukosol Hotels

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Scoot and Nok Air to form new LCC NokScoot

Scoot and Nok Air to form new LCC NokScoot

Nok Airlines Public Co Ltd (“Nok Air”) and Scoot Pte Ltd (“Scoot”) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a new low-cost airline to be based in Bangkok. The new airline will be named NokScoot and will be based at Don Mueang International Airport. It will operate wide body aircraft on medium and long-haul […]

Scoot and Nok Air to form new LCC NokScoot

Scoot and Nok Air to form new LCC NokScoot

Nok Airlines Public Co Ltd (“Nok Air”) and Scoot Pte Ltd (“Scoot”) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a new low-cost airline to be based in Bangkok. The new airline will be named NokScoot and will be based at Don Mueang International Airport. It will operate wide body aircraft on medium and long-haul […]

Mantra Group Reveals Top Summer Travel Trends

Mantra Group Reveals Top Summer Travel Trends

Mantra Group’s review of 2013 festive season booking trends has revealed the Sunshine Coast as this year’s hot spot together with Sydney and Melbourne in the wake of international sporting events.  The review taken from bookings data across the Group’s 114 Peppers, Mantra and BreakFree hotels in Australia also revealed a 35% increase by consumers […]

Mantra Group Reveals Top Summer Travel Trends

Mantra Group Reveals Top Summer Travel Trends

Mantra Group’s review of 2013 festive season booking trends has revealed the Sunshine Coast as this year’s hot spot together with Sydney and Melbourne in the wake of international sporting events.  The review taken from bookings data across the Group’s 114 Peppers, Mantra and BreakFree hotels in Australia also revealed a 35% increase by consumers […]

‘NUGGET’ KNEW HOW TO BOWL A MAIDEN OVER

‘NUGGET’ KNEW HOW TO BOWL A MAIDEN OVER

David Ellis WATCHING fast bowler Mitchell Johnson rout England in the First Test in Brisbane last month took us back a lot of years to another extraordinary player with not just the ball, but the bat as well, and that was the flamboyant, larger-than-life Keith ‘Nugget’ Miller. Arguably Australia’s greatest-ever all-rounder, Miller was a hero […]

Struth! World’s Steepest Street – and it’s not the rent

Struth! World’s Steepest Street – and it’s not the rent

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says you’ve got to make sure the handbrake’s on and the car’s automatic is in P when you park on Baldwin Street in New Zealand’s North East Valley just outside Dunedin – because its officially recognised by […]

Set sail for an endless summer: New Sea Cloud II – Caribbean itinerary

Set sail for an endless summer: New Sea Cloud II – Caribbean itinerary

Picture-book islands of the Lesser Antilles, dreamlike sandy beaches and a gentle pace of life are on offer on a new 7 night round trip Sea Cloud II sailing from 31 March to 07 April 2014. Departing from Barbados with calls at Dominica, St Barths, Anguilla and Îles des Saintes rates for a guaranteed double […]

Toronto’s Casa Lomo: Home is a Castle

Toronto’s Casa Lomo: Home is a Castle

  ENSURING THAT YOUR HOME IS YOUR CASTLEDavid Ellis   IT’S anyone’s guess what members of Canada’s Toronto City Council thought when they met one day back in 1903.   Because amongst the usual applications for alterations to city buildings, changes to trading hours, requests for better street lighting and all the other regular humdrum, […]

Struth! Costa Concordia catastrophe nothing to Giglio about

Struth! Costa Concordia catastrophe nothing to Giglio about

 In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says it’s been revealed that the ill-fated cruise liner Costa Concordia, that sank after hitting a rock off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January last year, appeared to have a knack for attracting the wrong kind […]