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Check-in.com.au Placed in Voluntary Liquidation

Check-in.com.au Placed in Voluntary Liquidation

by Martin Kelly, Travel Trends News Popular Australian accommodation website Check-in.com.au – which claims to have taken one million bookings since it was founded in 2002 – was today placed in voluntary liquidation and is no longer processing new bookings. An email sent to the industry said there’ll be a creditor’s meeting in June and […]

Art of the Brick in New York. LEGO exhibition.

Art of the Brick in New York. LEGO exhibition.

“Yellow” by Nathan Sawaya.(PRNewsFoto/Discovery Times Square) THE ART OF THE BRICK®, a captivating exhibition of intriguing works of art made exclusively from one of the most recognizable toys in the world, LEGO®, is set to make its debut in New York City at Discovery Times Square (226 West 44th Street) on June 14, 2013, with […]

New 5-star hotel for Brisbane

New 5-star hotel for Brisbane

Artist’s impression of the new structure The sale of Brisbane’s defunct Supreme and District Court buildings has opened the door for the largest single development in the city’s CBD. The Queensland Government has finalised the sale of the site to the Shayher Group, who will construct a mixed use precinct that will also include a […]

New 5-star hotel for Brisbane

New 5-star hotel for Brisbane

Artist’s impression of the new structure The sale of Brisbane’s defunct Supreme and District Court buildings has opened the door for the largest single development in the city’s CBD. The Queensland Government has finalised the sale of the site to the Shayher Group, who will construct a mixed use precinct that will also include a […]

United Airlines Welcomes Back Boeing 787 Dreamliner

United Airlines Welcomes Back Boeing 787 Dreamliner

  United’s Dreamliner returns with Houston to Chicago flight   United Airlines today welcomed back its Boeing 787 with the re-launch of commercial service from the airline’s hub in Houston. United’s Flight 1 departure from Houston Intercontinental at 11 a.m. to Chicago O’Hare marked the return of regular service using the world’s most advanced and […]

United Airlines Welcomes Back Boeing 787 Dreamliner

United Airlines Welcomes Back Boeing 787 Dreamliner

  United’s Dreamliner returns with Houston to Chicago flight   United Airlines today welcomed back its Boeing 787 with the re-launch of commercial service from the airline’s hub in Houston. United’s Flight 1 departure from Houston Intercontinental at 11 a.m. to Chicago O’Hare marked the return of regular service using the world’s most advanced and […]

Music sends tourists flocking to Abba Museum

Music sends tourists flocking to Abba Museum

Cheapflights.com.au says “Thank you for the Music” The opening, this month, of the Abba museum in Stockholm has sent Abba fans around the world into a frenzy of skintight catsuits, maxi dresses and sequin-encrusted satin.  This inspired the team at the travel information, comparison and deals website, Cheapflights.com.au to check out some other museums around the […]

Amalfi Coast from Pompeii to Sorrento

Amalfi Coast from Pompeii to Sorrento

     7-DAYS ON ITALY’S AMALFI COAST EMBRACES POMPEII TO SORRENTO   THE ruins of Pompeii that was obliterated by Mt Vesuvius in 79AD, and conversely ever-beautiful Ravello and its Villa Cimbrone whose famed apartments and gardens were holiday-home to DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wagner and Gore Vidal amongst others, are just two highlights […]

A tour to the end of the world

A tour to the end of the world

         A TOUR THAT LITERALLY TAKES YOU TO THE END OF THE WORLD   WHEN Far Horizons say they’ll take you to “The End of the World” they mean it – as part of a 37-day tour of South America you’ll travel 14km on a narrow-gauge steam train along a line built in 1896 […]

Struth! It’s a Small World After All, $8000 proves it.

Struth! It’s a Small World After All, $8000 proves it.

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a disabled man who had to endure a non-stop half-hour of “It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All…” when the Small World ride broke down at California’s Disneyland, has been […]