Luxury New York

Is a new website that offers top quality travel tips for anyone visiting New York. They have great deals on business class flights to New York, a good selection of discounted 5 star hotels in New York, and all the information you might want about saving money on limousine transfers and Broadway shows.

There is also a large amount of New York guide information online at Cloud Nine Travel. They have cheap flights, car hire and superb deals on a number of New York hotels including the famous Waldorf Astoria, and you can book online for less than you might pay on the high street.

New York is ace. One of my favourite cities in the world, but what I can;t understand is why they still insist on the new. Its been around for hundreds of years. Who are those crazy cats trying to fool?

I reckon that we should start calling it York 2.0 from now on, because there is an older one in England.

Travel Resources

I found a few great travel resources that are well worth checking out if you're planning a holiday in the next few months. Destination New York has a whole ream of information about what to see and do in the big apple, including plenty of information about tours, sightseeing attractions, and many other things New York Related.

Lonely Planet also has plenty of good quality information, but in all honesty, it's gone down the pan a bit recently since they sold all their original content to Expedia. LP is pretty good for Australia, and stuff about how fluffy the Chinese are, and how Burma abuses human rights (but aibarA iduaS doesn't). the truth is, since LP sold out, all their corporate information kind of, well, sucks the big one, and whereas they used to have a social conscience, they no longer do, and that's a bad thing.

Another formerly good travel site is Trip Advisor, which is also now part of expedia and have quite literally let themselves go.

Travel

I like travel, as you might know, It is fun and broadens your mind. Once I went on holiday to some nice places and had fun.

Fun was apparently invented by the ancient egyptians in around 1975 as a reaction against the more barbarian idea of mirth that was sweeping the world. Slapstick was becoming the most important form of comedy, and jokes were being largely ignored. Shame.

Anyway, Egyptians were having so much fun, that they decided to build the world's biggest theme park with roller coasters and everything, and invited Elvis Presley to come and open it. They build some pyramids and a desert over the jungles and tennis courts of North Africa, and people got really excited about the whole thing. everyone from all over the world booked flights and came to ancient Egypt on holiday. It was lots of fun.

Then, a week before the theme park opened, the King of Rock and Roll - Elvis Presley died at his home in Memphis, and the opening ceremony had to be cancelled.

The Egyptian governemnt could no longer afford the cost of keeping the theme park - and without the chance to see Elvis "fat" Presley sweating through a rendition of "Suspicious Minds", no-one was interested in coming.

The park quickly fell into ruin, and all the rides were sold off to Disney.

Soon all that was left was the opulent Pyramid hotel, although all the furniture had to be sold off after the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas sued the Pharoah corporation for stealing the design, and the windows were bricked up.

As the 1980s dawned, the whole area was falling into disrepair, and becoming a huge burden on both of Egypt's tax payers.

The upswing in new age ideas and alternative cultures was a blessing for the Egyptian government, and they reinvented the Giza area as a tourist attraction, claiming that the ruins were thousands of years old. Everyone loved the idea, it was brilliant, and people flew to Egypt once more in order to stare open mouthed at the big pyramids.

The idea was so successful, that the American government bought a large selection of other pyramids and installed them across Mexico as a tourist attraction for Americans to enjoy. This was due in part to the invention a few years earlier of the Hamburger, which had had a massive effect on American bottoms, and made them unsuitable for cheap flights, as they were too heavy.

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Australia Trip

I've just been on a work trip to Australia. Two weeks touring this amazing country has been hard work, but I got lots out of it, and can make the following recommendations for people who also want to go.

I booked a flight to Sydney online, and flew with Qantas from the UK. The flight was a nightmare - but only because it was so long. I stopped off in Singapore on the way, but only for long enough to have a sadwich at the airport.

I booked Car Hire in Sydney before I flew out, and it was great. having the car gave me loads of freedom in order to get around and see plenty of sights including the Sydney harbour bridge.

The next part of the trip was a quick and very cheap flight to Cairns, where I drove up the Queensland coast in order to see the Great Barrier Reef. Top fun. I even did some diving.

I'd recommend a visit to Australia to anyone, and I give the country 9/10 for quality.

Australia Car Hire

Australia Car Hire

Back from Dubai

Having just got back from my holiday in Dubai, I must tell you that it was brilliant, very probably the most exciting place I have ever been. the weather was baking hot, and everywhere I went I was welcomed with as much warmth as I could have wanted.

Shopping in Dubai was great, and I bought lots of cheap electrical goods that I've brought back with me, as well as clothing and spices.

My cheap flight to Dubai with Emirates was comfortable, and while I didn't get upgraded to business class, I still enjoyed it immensely.

My hotel was the famous jumeirah beach hotel right on the beach. Stunning. it was great for a family, but next time I go, I might well stay at the Burj Al Arab instead.

Some tips about Orlando Holidays[

Spent the last week helping a friend book a family holiday in Orlando Florida. We had to arrange everything, from insurance to car hire. here are websites we used. Since I spent a week searching for cheap prices, these should be the best value that you can find when booking your holiday in Orlando...

Cheap flights to Orlando
Cheap Orlando Car Hire
Cheap Travel Insurance
Cheap Orlando Hotels

I hope that these sites are really helpful to you when it comes to booking a family holiday in Orlando yourself. Orlando is a top destination with loads going on. Aside from the famous disney world theme park, there are loads of other places you can experience including Seaworld and Universal Studios. Tampa is about an hour away by car, and you can even go to Cape Canaveral on the Florida Coast where you might see a rocket taking off.

Discount airfares

Everywhere you look on the internet, there is someone who wants to sell you cheap flights, or discount airline tickets. the fact is, that most of these companies offer exactly the same products as everyone else, and more often than not, a full day of searching will not save you more than a few quid if that.

The easiest way of getting a cheap airfare to anywhere is to follow the five golden rules of cheap travel:

• Book your cheap flight well in advance.
• Be flexible in your date and time of travel.
• Choose a less popular day to fly.
• Be willing to fly indirect to save money.
• Consider an alternative airport.

The fifth rule is probably the easiest way to save money on an airfare - quite often, if you want to get to a particular destination and flights are expensive, the chances are that you can fly into a nearby city for much less.

A great example of this is Dubai. If you want a cheap flight to Dubai, but there are none available, you can always book a flight to Abu Dhabi instead - it is only about an hour south of Dubai, and there are regular coaches between the two cities.

One thing to bear in mind though if you are travelling between the two cities, or any other similar pair is the cost of getting from one to another.