Start scouring your harddrive for all those pictures you took during your previous vacations in Hawaii, because if you’re any good as a shutterbug, you could win yourself a nice classy 6-day, 5-night free stay at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach Hotel in Waikiki.
Oh, and there’s also additional cash and gift packages for first […]

Posted on July 19th, 2009 by Thomas
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In Twilight, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is paired with vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Twilight - the movie and it’s forthcoming sequel ‘New Moon’ were both filmed in Forks, Washington.
Forks is located in the heart of the Olympic Peninsula, between the Olympic mountains and the Pacific Ocean beaches. The town itself features as one of the […]

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Thomas
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Sunny San Diego has come out tops in Hotwire’s 2009 listing of the ‘Top 10 Summer Road Trip Destinations.’ The list showcases the most highly-sought summer destinations with the highest percentage of hotel transactions coming from nearby locales.

In a press statement, Clem Bason, President of the Hotwire Group, said that “Consumers realize that they don’t […]

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Thomas
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The heat and wonderfulness of the San Diego beaches isn’t good enough for Kim Kardashian and her family, so they ditched a patriotic vacation inside the United States, and instead jetted off on a family trip to Mexico, to celebrate her sister Courtney’s birthday.
Mexico, apparently, was too hot for Kim, and the sun-burn, was… not pretty. Post-sunburn, Kim Kardashian says on her […]

Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Thomas
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If you’re a mystery/murder buff, and you have £2,400 lying around a-wasting, you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a week wallowing in the hallowed Devon vacation home of the Queen of mystery thrillers.
Greenway, near Dartmouth, was purchased by Agatha Christie in 1938, and she spent three summers here with her second husband Max Mallowan. Greenway, along with […]

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Thomas
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The latest star attractions in San Diego are the baby condor chicks in the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park. Since Friday, two baby condors have knocked and pecked their way out into the world, with one more on it’s way out on Wednesday, and seven more expected to hatch in the coming months.

The Wild Animal Park began it’s […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Thomas
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What’s the first thing that British tourists do when they land up at a foreign destination? They start whining, is what.
This according to the “European Travel Trend Survey,” conducted by Sweden based Kairos Future, based on data collected from 11,000 people in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. The survey fingers Britons as the […]

Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Thomas
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The California Travel and Tourism Commission (CTTC) has listed out a set of famous film sites in California which are perfectly suited for vacations, especially if you’re a movie buff.
In the press statement, President and CEO Caroline Beteta of the CTTC said that “Because of our 300-plus days of sunshine each year, snow-capped mountain peaks, […]

Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Thomas
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For those planning a trip to Sin City, the New York Post has published a practical and in-depth destination guide for Las Vegas. You can read the full article(s) here, but here’s a short summary and some highlights from the guide.
It starts with the premise that Vegas visitors are either those who are there inspite of the […]

Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Thomas
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Leaving aside the title, which sounds like a blockbuster porn flick, there’s nothing really controversial here. Well, you can’t really separate Paris Hilton from controversy, but this one here is just the usual run-of-the-nill celeb stuff.  
Paris Hilton, who as per recent news reports is apparently being paid $600k to party at a club in Sydney on New […]

Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Thomas
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