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Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real wins another award !
The Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real is one of our favourite hotels, as we have already mentioned before, and now, this luxury 5 star hotel on the island of Fuerteventura has just been given the Award of Excellence award as the best hotel in Europe, in the category of “most excellent european waterside hotel 2012”.…
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4 girls in short dresses and high heels find grumpy people in Prague!
Our Travel TV presenter, Becky Hayes, has just returned from a short break in Prague with 3 girl friends. Here she describes how they couldn’t find a stag party anywhere, despite a thorough search and also that wearing short dresses and high heels in Prague may make you stand out from the crowd a little…
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Honeymoon destination dilemas
We had a busy weekend at Global Holidays as we had a stand at the Harrogate Wedding Show. It was a really enjoyable two days and we ended up giving advice to hundreds of brides and grooms who stopped by our stand wanting information about potential honeymoon destinations. The range and types of honeymoons that…
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Just one thing to do before you die!
Have you read the book “50 things to do before you die”? Did you look through and think to yourself that it would be nice to do just one or two of those things? The BBC even did a TV program with their slant on the subject. You can even buy a book called “501…
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Braving the Volcanic Eruptions of Mt Etna
Sylvia Kenny, of Leeds City College Travel & Tourism department, has just returned from a holiday on the island of Sicily and in this guest blog article she tells us how much she enjoyed the island and her trip up Mt Etna, despite the daily volcanic eruptions! Leaving behind the green and pleasant land of…
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Travel video production service launched.
Global Holidays today launched its own travel video production service. Working in partnership with a professional Internet video production company the service is aimed at hotels, tour operators, tourist boards and travel agents who want to use video to promote their travel and tourism service. Filmed in HD and using a professional presenter the cost…
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Want to climb Mt Kilimanjaro or go into space?
Global Holidays has launched a new holiday section called “Adventure Holidays & Adrenalin Rush”. Aimed at people that want more from a holiday than sitting on a beach and drinking cocktails the holidays featured include the Mt Kilimanjaro Summit Climb, a 20 day trek to Everest Base Camp, an 11 days Antarctic tour, holidays to Costa…
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Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real 5* GL Wins Award
We are not long back from our holiday to Fuerteventura and our visit to the magnificent Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real in Corralejo and we have just heard that the hotel has won the prestigious Tripadviser Award of Excellence for 2011. The Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahia Real 5* GL has achieved again the Certificate of Excellence…
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The best city to live in is ….?
News just out about the best city in the world to live in doesn’t give us too many surprises. Vancouver in Canada has for several years been the number one city to live in but now it has been knocked off the number one position by Melbourne, Australia. Apparently, these wasn’t much to choose between…
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Rugby World Cup to give New Zealand a boost.
One of the highlights of the sporting calendar is set to kick off, as the the Rugby World Cup starts in New Zealand. Teams from around the world including England, Wales and Scotland will battle it out with other teams including the mighty All Blacks and Australia. The Rugby World Cup only takes place once…
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Luxury Holidays – What You Are Searching For in 2012 ?
We have been selling luxury holidays since 1996 so we think we know quite a lot about travel, holidays and offering great deals. As we look forward to 2012 we thought we would look at what visitors to our website searched for in 2011. We keep statistics of what holiday destination is searched for when someone uses…
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Ibiza – Is it the coolest place on the planet?
Becky Hayes, our roving Travel TV presenter has just returned from a short visit to Ibiza. Here she describes where the coolest places to visit are on the island of Ibiza. There is one place that transforms like no other in the summer months and that is the white isle of Ibiza! From May –…