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NEW YORK IS LIKE A MAGNET TO AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLERS
Australians continue their love affair with New York City despite the economy. Aussie visitation to the Big Apple reached nearly 200,000 last year and continues to increase in the face of the slowing global tourism according to Manhattan’s Beacon Hotel General Manager, Tom Travers A 19 year veteran of the 260 room hotel hosts more […]
NEW YORK IS LIKE A MAGNET TO AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLERS
Australians continue their love affair with New York City despite the economy. Aussie visitation to the Big Apple reached nearly 200,000 last year and continues to increase in the face of the slowing global tourism according to Manhattan’s Beacon Hotel General Manager, Tom Travers A 19 year veteran of the 260 room hotel hosts more […]
A Hotel in a Room
Could you call it a hotel if all the rooms are located in different cities around the world? The ambitious people behind the Hotel Room, which opened it’s first property in the bohemian Kallio district of Helsinki, claims you can. A one-room hotel, Hotel Room opened its first facilities in the bohemian Kallio neighborhood in […]
A Hotel in a Room
Could you call it a hotel if all the rooms are located in different cities around the world? The ambitious people behind the Hotel Room, which opened it’s first property in the bohemian Kallio district of Helsinki, claims you can. A one-room hotel, Hotel Room opened its first facilities in the bohemian Kallio neighborhood in […]
Orion OPERA UNDER THE STARS® Kimberley voyage 2009
Opera With The Stars Under The Stars A grand night of operatic proportions awaits guests from the five star expedition cruise ship Orion at the conclusion of its Kimberley Expedition voyage in late August 2009. Having absorbed the visual drama of the spectacular Kimberley coast with its vast tidal changes, emerging reefs, swirling waters, dramatic […]
GRIM START TO A SOUTH PACIFIC PARADISE
david Ellis IF it was any consolation to those French deportees foolhardy enough to misbehave so badly in the one-time penal colony of New Caledonia as to warrant execution, it was that they went to their deaths on one of the most famous guillotines in French history. Because when it became obvious to the commandant […]
Windstar slashes rates for Europe sailings
Windstar Cruises is giving travellers the chance to explore the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea at a fraction of the brochure price with a selection of last minute deals offering savings of up to 59 percent off. With departures available in August and September 2009, the cruises take place onboard the 312 passenger msy Wind Surf […]
Spend New Years Eve in Antarctica
TRAVEL BRIEFS John Crook Unique dining experience Dine at a secluded bush setting under a canopy of stars and sample the hospitality of real country folk. The location is Rawnsley Park Station in South Australia’s beautiful Flinders Ranges. This dining experience is scheduled July 25, August 8 and 22, September 5 and 19 and also […]
Spend New Years Eve in Antarctica
TRAVEL BRIEFS John Crook Unique dining experience Dine at a secluded bush setting under a canopy of stars and sample the hospitality of real country folk. The location is Rawnsley Park Station in South Australia’s beautiful Flinders Ranges. This dining experience is scheduled July 25, August 8 and 22, September 5 and 19 and also […]
STRUTH: Relax at gunpoint
STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says a travel-writing mate, Roderick Eime came upon this bizarre piece of garden furniture on a recent visit to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. It was part of a free exhibition called To Be Deter-mined / […]
