In an ideal world, a direct non-stop flight is definitely the way to go. One check-in and you’re gone.However, the growth of discount airlines means that in many cases an indirect route is considerably cheaper and can also offer you a lot more...
Topics: Holiday Planning, Holidays, Travelling

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We don’t get an awful lot of group bookings but, whilst welcome in terms of the money, they’re consistently very disorganised in comparison to either normal bookings or what you’d expect from an “organised” group.For...
Topics: Bookings

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One of the ironies of the explosion of the various money making schemes available on the Internet in recent years is that it’s come at a time when it’s become virtually impossible to get the ideal type of bank account for these activities...
Topics: Making Money

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In big hotels towels and whatnot go “missing” and it’s classed as wastage basically because it would be pretty difficult to identify who’d made off with things as so many different people are involved.However, in our place which...
Topics: Bookings

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When you’ve collected a few domains and are running a number of websites after a while you start getting what can sometimes become a flood of peculiar offers.Mainly, for us, it’s the peculiar bookings. Nearly always these are from Dr...
Topics: Marketing

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